Issue with Wayfarer Map resetting location upon zoom

Reporting bug related to Wayfarer Map. Reproduction steps below:

  1. Go to the Review page
  2. Submit a review
  3. Go to the map page
  4. Pan the map and then zoom in or out, or attempt to change location via the location search

Observed effect: Every time the map zoom level, the map location resets to user location, preventing the map from being used.

Personally tested and reproduced on:

  • Safari iOS
  • Chrome iOS
  • Chrome macOS

Video recording available and shared via Ambassador channels.

Issue has been reported by others in the community also.

Issue began occurring with the recent Wayfarer release, release-wayfarer-web-5-42-0-477a9be0-Apr-09-12-45

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For what it’s worth, my own experience (long-term) with the map is that when I enter a location (e.g., 48.357649, 10.762156), the map pans to that location then immediately reverts to my home location. When I re-do the location (click on the co-ordinates and press enter), it pans to that location and then stays there, behaving correctly.

I tested moving from submission review to map and it was basically the same behaviour. The map showed the correct location until I panned it, at which point it jumped to my home location as you describe. When I then re-did the location (click on the co-ordinates and press enter), it behaved correctly.

The first time you are going to the location, it is moving you to the new location and changing the zoom. The zoom change associated with this causes the bug to occur and your map resets to your home location, but keeps the new zoom level.

The second time you are going to that location, it moves you to that location but the zoom doesn’t change (as you already were set to that zoom last time). Because there was no change to the zoom level, the bug does not occur and you are not reset. But, if you zoom in or out, you will be reset back to home.

As a note, this is very likely linked to the zoom parameter now being part of the url, e.g. https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/mapview?z=18

Every time you zoom in or out, the URL changes. This was introduced in the new Wayfarer version which rolled out last week.

As zooming in/out is a key required for this bug to occur, it may be related to how the page responds to the URL change when zooming in and out, as opposed to the zoom itself. However, my testing shows that a review has to be completed first, so not sure exactly what is going on.

Thank you for the report. I will have this escalated for internal review.

Regards,

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For me, once I have been sent back to home, it doesn’t then send me back again as long as I stay on the map - I can freely zoom and pan. If I switch to reviewing and then back to the map, I get sent home again just the once.

I get the same…

Windows 11 - Firefox

A refresh of the page seems to fix.

Had over the last couple of days but didn’t realise the correlation with Reviewing…

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Same. Refreshing fixes it for me until another review is completed.

Switching to any other page (criteria, profile, help, settings) and back to the map also triggers this.

Windows 11, Chrome browser.

I tried those on Chrome MacOS and was not able to reproduce by switching to any of those pages (instead of submitting a review).