Mapping and tagging tweaks01.02.2010
We're massaging existing backpage features as feedback and gripes are shared with us. The latest two tools to go under the knife are the tagging and mapping systems.
Mapping
Geotagging, you cruel mistress! Yet you languish unused on so many installations. Those who use it, love it but had a few suggestions to make it better. So with our listening hat on we've changed the user interface, contracting the 'mega-buttons' to give a more tag like look. To follow up with the change of 'look', we also added a tagging 'feel' - now multiple geographical areas can be associated with a web document or blog post.
Admins can also delete Geographical references by double clicking on the geotag they want to destory. Editing remains unchanged.
Tagging
A lot of people (read: everyone) HATED that we'd ignored the usual tagging convention of a comma delimited list of tags, going with a space delimited list instead. Well, we've come to our senses and rewritten tagging so it behaves as a user might expect. We also took the opportunity to tweak the UI, giving tags a 'button-like' appearance.
Finally we changed how tags are edited / removed, staying with the double-click approach seen in mapping, once you double click a tag a panel will appear offering the options to delete or edit a tag in-place. Fun!