Community Suggestion: Ability to link/embed maps with specific combinations of Marker Groups and Layers active
Ability to link/embed maps with specific combinations of Marker Groups and Layers active
Feature Upgrade · Maps · Created by GeckoOBac
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maps markers
Concept:
The idea is to be able to embed or link to a map in a way that activates a specific combination or layer and active marker groups. This would locally override the default visibility settings for Marker Groups and Layers.Use cases
Chronology
By allowing specific views to be linked or embedded contextually, it's easier to make chronological maps that show changes in the political/human features of an area, over the relatively unchanging geological features. Examples:- Show the changing borders of an empire over its history by embedding the map with different markers active corresponding to the contextually relevant time period.
- Show the excursions of an adventuring party over their activity in the same area without required user interaction and avoiding a mess of overlapping routes/markers by activating only the important groups.
Separating contexts
In describing a large area of a world, it's inevitable that many different articles relating to history, organisations, locations and geographical features may all link to the same map and even refer to the same areas while having little to no relation with each other. Examples:- Show the sites of religious importance of a culture, residing in the same general area of second culture that doesn't share its belief nor knowledge of the first culture's.
- Show the markers relating to the economic trade routes and resources of an area, while being able to show features of magical relevance on the same map without interference or clutter.
Height levels
The ability to customise which layers and marker groups are showing means giving the power to separate the different height layers of a map and keep markers mostly to the layer they're relevant to. Examples:- Integrating different height layers of a futuristic mega-city while both keeping most markers hidden when not relevant AND still benefit from map wide markers to signal points of transition between the layers and the ability to freely switch between layers without having dedicated maps.
- Showing the various layers of a large tower embedded in an article about each of the floors without having to make separate maps to still retain the ability to freely switch between them when required.
The Team's Response
This suggestion has not reached any voting threshold during its voting time This is a great suggestion but it doesn't seem to have the support of the community at this point. It is sad but it will require more support to be actioned. Maybe a better title / descritption can be beneficial to a future resubmissiso of the request Feel free to re-suggest in some weeks.
Current score
51/300 Votes · +6640 points
Votes Cast
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+100
by Nemca
on 2021-06-06 19:29 -
+100
by Trueangelman
on 2021-06-06 03:59 -
+10
by NotQuiteLilac
on 2021-06-05 20:35 -
+50
by SirCobalt
on 2021-06-05 03:21 -
+300
by drzymalas
on 2021-06-05 01:57 -
+20
by A Frightened Cthulhu
on 2021-06-03 20:23 -
+300
by Darksheer2015
on 2021-06-03 19:44 -
+50
by ProcrastiCreator
on 2021-05-30 19:46 -
+50
by Lahparas
on 2021-05-30 13:49 -
+100
by ano19920
on 2021-05-30 02:08 -
+50
by DnDOldmanOldman
on 2021-05-29 21:21 -
+50
by AceMaster
on 2021-05-29 12:27 -
+100
by anna_b_meyer
on 2021-05-28 02:18 -
+50
by Unthar3Green
on 2021-05-26 14:14 -
+100
by iantojohn
on 2021-05-24 02:11 -
+200
by Palant
on 2021-05-23 01:12 -
+50
by Groo
on 2021-05-22 22:43 -
+300
by Stormbril
on 2021-05-21 01:50 -
+100
by Original-Kraken
on 2021-05-20 22:31 -
+200
by Snake__Venom
on 2021-05-20 08:41 -
+10
by karhall
on 2021-05-20 00:43 -
+200
by RockGnome
on 2021-05-19 19:02 -
+300
by gminisamimi
on 2021-05-19 18:54 -
+50
by Careen Ligh
on 2021-05-19 18:06 -
+100
by MoonRaven
on 2021-05-19 08:09 -
+300
by Dalf32
on 2021-05-19 03:17 -
+10
by Lyraine Alei
on 2021-05-19 03:10 -
+50
by morganarcher
on 2021-05-19 02:50 -
+300
by Amanda Barylski
on 2021-05-19 02:05As I intend to set many stories in one world, at different time periods but in the same geographic areas, this seems like it would be really useful!
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+100
by Lograf
on 2021-05-18 20:56 -
+50
by Tutelie
on 2021-05-18 18:41 -
+100
by brass_phoenix
on 2021-05-18 15:23This would be very useful. A usecase for me: I have a city with sewers underneath. These are shown as two layers in the same map, so that you can easily switch between them. But this has the downside that if I want to embed the sewer map into an article, I will always get the above ground map instead. This feature would fix that :)
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+20
by APartyHat
on 2021-05-18 13:57 -
+50
by Zoraidaz
on 2021-05-18 12:16 -
+50
by FictionFan1995
on 2021-05-18 11:16This sounds like a very good idea. Showing chronological changes would be especially useful for me.
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+50
by zitnic
on 2021-05-18 08:50 -
+50
by Schmauch
on 2021-05-18 06:52 -
+20
by eldknighterrant
on 2021-05-18 06:14 -
+100
by Zemeraire
on 2021-05-18 04:53 -
+100
by Spicy McHaggis
on 2021-05-18 01:34 -
+300
by OutStander
on 2021-05-18 01:08 -
+100
by PhntmDrgn
on 2021-05-18 00:26 -
+100
by Buzzard
on 2021-05-18 00:19Great suggested feature. I could definitely make use of a feature like this.
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+50
by BadgerKing
on 2021-05-17 23:25 -
+300
by Michael Chandra
on 2021-05-17 21:48 -
+50
by jackledead
on 2021-05-17 18:21 -
+200
by JohanWq
on 2021-05-17 17:51 -
+50
by NatB5989
on 2021-05-17 16:44 -
+300
by DragonParrot
on 2021-05-17 16:14I was just thinking of this! I really enjoy using map layers, but I still have to keep multiple copies of my world map because I want to be able to embed physical and political map views separately. Excellent use cases in the description as well!
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+300
by Satrium
on 2021-05-17 15:26 -
+300
by schweppz
on 2021-05-17 14:12 -
+300
by GeckoOBac
on 2021-05-17 13:52
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