I'm in favor of giving the form designer as much control as possible.
Could the "field" be entered as three coordinated fields?
In addition to:
| '''Geographic coordinate''' in the form "<nowiki>45.4564°N,
-23.456°E</nowiki>".
{{{field|coordinate|input type=googlemap}}}
How about adding:
| '''Enter address of location.'''
{{{field|coordinate|input type=googlemap_address}}}
|-
| '''Or, enter geographic coordinate''' in the form
"<nowiki>45.4564°N, -23.456°E</nowiki>".
{{{field|coordinate|input type=googlemap_coordinate}}}
|-
| '''Or, find the location on the map'''.
{{{field|coordinate|input type=googlemap_map}}}
You could link them together by the field name and still support
the existing version as with type="googlemap"
You could even allow the form designer to include only one or two of
the fields,
so a cartographer could use the coordinate field and leave off the
address.
(I know this is at least an order of magnitude more difficult than
rearranging the form elements,
but you asked...)
- Barry
On Jan 26, 12:49 pm, Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've gotten the sense recently that some or many users find the Semantic
> Google Maps form input confusing, especially when they first try to use it.
> To refresh your memory, here's an example of the form input in action:
>
> http://hackerspaces.org/w/index.php?title=Santa_Fe_Complex&action=for...
>
> It consists of three parts: an input of geographical coordinates (which is
> what actually gets saved to the template), a map input (which also sets the
> coordinates), and an entry for placing an address, then looking up that
> address (which sets the values of both the coordinate and map inputs). With
> that many inputs, and the lack of any explanatory text, it's no wonder that
> some people get confused.
>
> So: does anyone have any thoughts on ways the input could be improved?
> Perhaps the two text entries should be reversed, with the address lookup on
> top? Or maybe one of the text entries should be placed to the right of the
> map, instead of the top or bottom? Maybe "look up coordinates" should be
> changed to "look up address"? Or maybe that text should appear, unlinked,
> before the entry, with something like "Go" appearing after the entry as the
> actual link?
>
> Any thoughts are welcome. Also, if you know of any existing inputs on the
> web that do something similar, that would be helpful to know about too.
>
> Thanks,
> Yaron
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