I really, really love this module and the field it creates. It's perfect for the project I'm working on. But what's not perfect is the user experience of the interface. Users are finding it confusing and overwhelming.

I have a suggestion, to rewrite the text on the buttons and shorten the help text. I've posted screenshots below (since I had trouble getting drupal.org to let me post them the first three times.)

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linking up images

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Attempting to post the photos again.

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grr

derjochenmeyer’s picture

Thanks for the mockup jensimmons. I like the idea of simplifying things. I'd vote for a little more information though:

"Enter an address or click the map: [Map this address]"
"Or: [Use my browsers' location]"

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You suggested:

"Enter an address or click the map: [Map this address]"

I believe this confuses things — placing two choices that aren't related to each other into the first choice listed. Each choice should just have one choice. 1, 2, or 3. (Not 1or2, or 3).

This could work to make the option to simply click on the map more obvious.

Enter an address: [Map this address]
Or: [Find my location]
Or click on this map:
{map}

Like this:

after screenshot

I still like the original screenshots above better. It's simpler. Advanced users will likely already know they can zoom in the map and click on it. Although, since that interface does require zooming in, I expect it will be used less often than the other two choices.

It's important for tools to be super easy to use. Especially for beginners.

jensimmons’s picture

Oh, I see why it's not possible to alter most of this help text sung String Overrides — it is all wrapped in t(), but much of it never goes through Drupal's translation system. It's injected into the page DOM using javascript, directly from the module's js.

Sinan Erdem’s picture

I really like jensimmons's suggestion about UX. Please consider making the widget more user-friendly with this suggestion.

Sinan Erdem’s picture

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omg STOPIT

christianadamski’s picture

Component: Google Maps geolocation » Geolocation Field / Backend
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Closing all 7.x issues. It's time.