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commons-on-osm default start location is zoomed in on 0,0 #17

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harry-wood opened this issue Feb 9, 2017 · 0 comments

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harry-wood commented Feb 9, 2017

commons-on-osm map default start location is zoomed in on 0,0. That's if you visit the URL without any parameters: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/commons-on-osm.php

This reveals some weirdness with lots of images at the 0,0 point in the middle of the ocean, and in general is just a bit confusing.

It would be easier for the user to orient themselves if we default to somewhere like this https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/commons-on-osm.php?zoom=3&lat=35&lon=0 (low zoom being the main thing)

For bonus points we could detect this case and request browser's geolocation instead (or offer this with a message appearing somewhere)

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