Feedback on Wilderness Map

[LisaEidson]

The new wilderness map I'm testing and will eventually launch on my website http://www.wilderness.net could use a good critique. This map overlays official wilderness boundaries that I maintain on top of aerial photography and locational basemaps provided by Bing and a topographic basemap by ESRI. It also has a custom nav panel with various buttons and popups if you click within a wilderness boundary. I'd like some feedback on how this works, how intuitive it is, whether you can break it 🙂 Don't be afraid to be blunt!

I've tested it in IE9, FireFox 10, Chrome 16.0.912.77m, and Safari (windows) 5.1. Feedback regarding performance in IE7, 8 would be much appreciated, as many in our audience use those browsers.

Although it's not the most enticing incentive, I'd be glad to send anybody who offers a thorough critique a free Wilderness.net sticker; just email me, Lisa Eidson, your address and sticker preference (1 of 10 different ones with text on back) after you post your critique.

Here's the link to the map: http://www.wilderness.net/map.cfm

Thanks much to anyone willing to offer feedback!

[JeffMitzelfelt]

You might want to move the "FIND A CITY/ROAD/PLACE" search field and Lat/Lon off the map since it is difficult to see on the map.

Also if you put placeholder="FIND A CITY/ROAD/PLACE" in the input tag for your search field, "FIND A CITY/ROAD/PLACE" would show up in the search field, and you wouldn't need the text above the search field.

<input type="text" size="20" name="geocodeAddress" id="geocodeAddress" style="padding-right: 1px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" onclick="formatGeocode();" onkeypress="return checkSubmit(event);" placeholder="FIND A CITY/ROAD/PLACE">

I really like the way your help looks. I thought the help icon was a bit difficult to locate (size, location.)

Useful map. Thanks for sharing.