For the benefits of other people, I will outline issues that have been identified by myself and other Ambassadors.
The purpose of me sharing this is:
- so users can know which issues have been identified
- to encourage users to share their feedback about which issues Niantic should target in future map releases.
- in case you’ve found something that I haven’t.
Identified issues:
- Map not showing ‘live’ data. Based on my own independent research…
- Wayspot data (additions, removals, edits) is delayed by 3-27 hours
- Pokemon Go data (gym/pokestop status) is delayed by 22 hours
- Zoom requirement too restrictive at zoom level 18
- Map does not show clusters upon zoom out to help with navigation
- Issues with phones when viewing the map in landscape orientation
- Overlapping UI elements
- Cannot see details pane
- Ellipsis menu appears not to open
- Ellipsis menu does actually open but you can’t see all the text
- Cannot view images, and most can’t even view titles or coordinates
- Location search bar does not work
- Decreasing the browser height reduces the width of the POI side panel until it is unreadable / unusable
- Google Map visual style issues
- Buildings are not showing on light mode or dark mode maps
- Light mode roadmap is missing labels compared to dark mode roadmap (e.g. major roads, bodies of water)
- There is not option for Hybrid satellite style (overlaying text on the satellite map for navigation purposes)
- The address string is malformed and contains the city, postcode and country twice, e.g. “Geoffrey Bolton Av, Perth WA 6000, Australia, Perth, 6000, AU”
- The address string is missing from things that are not Pokestops or Gyms
- There is no Streetview option
- Issues with translation and localisation
- No support for Indonesian language
- Wrong translations (e.g. Pokemon Gym in German being “Fitnessstudio” rather than “Arena”)
- Translated report reasons differing in wording to the corresponding translated Pokemon Go report in-game reasons, and sometimes having different connotations
- All up, we have provided 125 translation suggestions across 15 languages.
- Lack of persistent memory of last used filters across map sessions.
- Lack of persistent memory of last viewed location across map sessions.
- Reducing the width of the desktop browser while report interface breaks the UI and causes a white/grey screen. Same for rotating phone from landscape to portrait with the report interface open.
- Map cursor changes to hand pointer icon when moving over the geolocation dot, indicating it is clickable, but it isn’t.
- Confusing UI with filters – not necessarily intuitive whether black means ‘on’ or ‘off’.
- No ability to show only Wayspots that are not in Pokemon Go.
- When reducing or increasing browser window width past a certain threshold, and the map changes from ‘desktop’ layout to ‘mobile’ layout, the hidden POI side panel can briefly be seen flying across the screen with placeholder text “Untitled Location” as it moves from either right side to bottom, or from bottom to right side.
- Sponsored Pokestops/Gyms do not show up on the map.
- Some Campsite Wayspots do not show up on the map (but others do).
- Some imported Wayspots incorrectly appear as Community Contributed (e.g. HMDB imports)
- Ellipsis menu when open does not close when clicking a different Wayspot, leaving it ambiguous if the report button would then be for the old Wayspot or the new Wayspot
- When on desktop browser viewing the map at a reduced browser width (i.e. map is in mobile layout) the POI details panel at the bottom has a UI element that looks like a draggable horizontal bar to increase the height of the panel and see more details. But dragging this fails, and it instead requires a click.
There are also feature requests that we have made, but this list was just the issues with the current features on the Wayfarer Map.