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NCEAS / metacatui

MetacatUI: A client-side web interface for DataONE data repositories
https://nceas.github.io/metacatui
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add map to editor for verifying locations #425

Open mbjones opened 6 years ago

mbjones commented 6 years ago

The ESS-DIVE group has asked whether its possible to add a map view of the geospatial bounding box/centroid in the editor view so that users can verify whether their coordinates were entered correctly. This seems imminently manageable, given that we already draw such a map with the Google Maps API in our landing pages. The major difference here would be in drawing it dynamically as the user added bounding boxes in the editor. Presumably multiple bounding boxes could be shown on the same map. Reasonable?

laurenwalker commented 6 years ago

This is definitely doable. We included an interactive map in our original Editor mockups, but a static map could be a good stop gap until we get the cycles to implement an interactive map.