Bug: GPS / Use My Location button is disabled on map

[fancyham]

Overview

In the past few days, the ‘crosshairs’ button to get the user’s location via GPS has been disabled both on web and mobile when in map mode.

Note the “Use my current location” button on landing page does work properly.

Perhaps this is a regression due to a recent update?

How to replicate

1. Go to foodoasis.la
2. Tap magnifying glass to show all of LA
3. Notice that crosshairs button in upper right corner is greyed out:

Platforms and apps

Safari desktop
Safari mobile

Action Items

• Reactivate ‘get my location’ button

Resources/Examples

[entrotech]

This is now implemented as follows:
If the user has not enabled location for the site in their browser, the "GPS" (aka re-center) button will be disabled.
If the user has enabled location for the site in their browser, then when the re-center button is pressed, the map will be re-centered on the user's location, and the "start" pin, if any, will be moved to the user's location as well.

[fancyham]

Oops

[fancyham]

Looks good — one bug I came across:

It seems like if I deny access to my location when first loading the site, the site still thinks that I have denied it permanently and the GPS button doesn’t work? The button looks clickable (blue background) but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

• created new issue as Usability: allow user to try GPS button multiple times #1205

To recreate:

1. Mac Safari (Monterey, latest version of Safari)
2. Click ‘Use my current location’, but do NOT select ‘remember for a day"
3. When Safari asks, deny access to location
4. Type in ‘LA’ and get map
5. GPS button looks active. Click it.
6. Nothing happens. Expectation was that the website would request my location again and I would see a Safari location request dialog again because the button looked active.

If the button is non-functional, we should make it look disabled.

I’d lean towards trying to get the location whenever the user requests it and showing a message or disabling the button when that request is rejected… and not store that state in the user session.

I’d ideally like to be able to change my browser’s location sharing preferences to grant access to the location, return to the website, reload the page if necessary, and get my location using that button.

• Can we change the button tooltip from ‘re-center’ to ’show your location’ (Google calls it “show your location”, Apple uses “show your current location”). This would be a better description than ‘re-center’.
• created new issue Usability: change tooltip for GPS button to better describe its function #1206

[sei1122]

I enabled location settings for Chrom browser and pressed the Re-center button, it is working :)
Location pin is pointed where I live and center on the map.

[ryu-jieun]

It's working on my safari (iphone 11).