IkiMap: Icky UI performance and spam.
When viewing results for ikimap searches, the list includes thumbnails that appear to be downscaled higher-resolution images, and appear to be uncached;
* scrolling slows down to unusable levels, as the thumbnails are loaded
* scrolling back does the same; thumbnails and/or data seems to be reloaded instead of cached.
This wouldn't be as bad as an issue, except most every search is filled with results by the AdministrativeBoundaries user; "Administrative area of ....", etc.
Ikimaps in general appears to have a few prolific users that submit automated results en masse, toponymsoftheworld is another, though it doesn't flood queries from locus like AdministrativeBoundaries. It would be nice to have a way to filter users, a comma/semicolon seperated list in config.cfg would work fine.
ikimaps in general is also filled with single-post insert_business_here commercial/advertising related maps, which cannot be filtered by this, however this does not make the service nearly unusable like AdministrativeBoundaries does.
The same problem 
Hello,
I perfectly understand mentioned problems and they have solutions as you suggested (some better image caching, filtering of users)
For me anyway, is major question future of ikiMap service.
I did this service around two years ago. Major reason was deprecation of Google MyMaps, so I was searching for any alternative. Unfortunately since this time
Both above points, lead more to removing support for this service, then to improving it.
I'm not anyway saying I want to remove it for now. It was quite a lot work and with small changes, it should be useful feature. But without any progress on ikiMap.com site, I see no serious reason to work on Locus as it's client.
What you think? You use this service periodically?
Hello,
I perfectly understand mentioned problems and they have solutions as you suggested (some better image caching, filtering of users)
For me anyway, is major question future of ikiMap service.
I did this service around two years ago. Major reason was deprecation of Google MyMaps, so I was searching for any alternative. Unfortunately since this time
Both above points, lead more to removing support for this service, then to improving it.
I'm not anyway saying I want to remove it for now. It was quite a lot work and with small changes, it should be useful feature. But without any progress on ikiMap.com site, I see no serious reason to work on Locus as it's client.
What you think? You use this service periodically?
Honestly, I don't feel the service itself is very useful, especially compared to alternatives. As, with spam and a slow menu, it's useless, however I thought some might actually use it, so I didn't go with my initial idea and post a suggestion named:
Please replace the icky ickimap service with something useful like geocommons
:>
See my post on that service. Due to the company and userbase I don't think it will become a scanner ghost town, and figure the only service that would be -more- useful for locus users would be wililoc; however they don't have a public api.
TLDR; if ikimap is fixed I'd play with it on occasion (and wish it were geocommons:P). If it were to disappear I'd barely notice.
Honestly, I don't feel the service itself is very useful, especially compared to alternatives. As, with spam and a slow menu, it's useless, however I thought some might actually use it, so I didn't go with my initial idea and post a suggestion named:
Please replace the icky ickimap service with something useful like geocommons
:>
See my post on that service. Due to the company and userbase I don't think it will become a scanner ghost town, and figure the only service that would be -more- useful for locus users would be wililoc; however they don't have a public api.
TLDR; if ikimap is fixed I'd play with it on occasion (and wish it were geocommons:P). If it were to disappear I'd barely notice.
Hello,
sorry for a late reply and thank you for a valuable feedback. From what you wrote is clear that even for someone who search for such (similar) feature, ikiMap isn't perfect. Because my time is now quite tight, I have to leave this problem for now, sorry.
I agree that there is missing a lot, some similar feature, but we currently do not have a free time for such complex task. Anyway if you keep using Locus, I'm sure you notice a time when we start work on any ;)
Hello,
sorry for a late reply and thank you for a valuable feedback. From what you wrote is clear that even for someone who search for such (similar) feature, ikiMap isn't perfect. Because my time is now quite tight, I have to leave this problem for now, sorry.
I agree that there is missing a lot, some similar feature, but we currently do not have a free time for such complex task. Anyway if you keep using Locus, I'm sure you notice a time when we start work on any ;)
Good day,
almost by accident I found this unfinished topic. If we look on ikiMap web page, it's exactly same as it was three/four years before. So from my point of view, project is dead and ready to remove from Locus Map instead of making some improvements.
Thanks for understanding.
Good day,
almost by accident I found this unfinished topic. If we look on ikiMap web page, it's exactly same as it was three/four years before. So from my point of view, project is dead and ready to remove from Locus Map instead of making some improvements.
Thanks for understanding.
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