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Find My Location could use refinements

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07-15-2024 09:49 AM
Status: Open
SStopyak_BruceHarris
Regular Contributor

The in-map widget, Find My Location could use some refinement. There are a couple issues with it. First is it's inability to differentiate actual device locations from ISP hub locations. For users on networked desktop PCs, the location shown may or may not be accurate. Sometimes it'll give the location of a ISP hub somewhere off-site. Perhaps a check as to whether the device is location-aware could be developed. In the event it is not location aware, the widget should show a message like "The device you are using is not location-aware".

A second issue some users have expressed is that while clicking the Find My Location widget zooms to the location and shows it with a blue point on the map, clicking it again seems to only reproduce the same starting action. I think the expectation for users is that the location detection will deactivate with a second click and the blue location dot should no longer be shown on the map.