Feedback on initial test

Hi Paal,

Out of the Block: OpenStreetMap as a block name is too long. I am guessing there is a way to adjust the block name so it is not that long. It could for instance become Open Street Map Block in the Inserter Panel.

I didn’t want to have a plain “OpenStreetMap” name, because it might conflict with other blocks and it might be confusing for the user (I’ve seen it happening with other blocks in the past, when the developer decided to change the name). I took your comment into consideration and changed the Name to “OpenStreetMap by Out of the Block”. If you update to the latest version (1.3) you will see it.

A map shows up of I believe Greece with Greek letters. Here the default could be Greece with English letters.

When the map first loads for the first time, having no markers yet, needs to have a default center. I chose it to be in Athens, as I am from Greece. My understanding is that OpenStreetMap by default sets the names of the countries in their native language. If, for example, I had chosen Tokyo as the center, the names of the cities would be in Japanese. I’m not sure if I can affect that.

I do wonder if it is possible to get satellite images/kinda like Google earth I believe.

On today’s release (v. 1.3) Stamen has been added to the list of Tile Layers. Adding even more options in the future is something that I am considering too.

It would be nice with a panel in the sidebar with Addresses. As one opens the panel one gets an overview of the addresses that one has added to the map. Here one would also be able to add additional addresses.

That’s an interesting suggestion and is challenging in regards to how those fields could be displayed in a user-friendly way. I like the idea and I’m keeping it in mind for future implementation.

Changing icon. Here there could be a few thumbnail pins to choose from. So one can choose the default or something else or upload a new pin to the media library and use that.

I kept it minimal on purpose there, so that the users can upload their own pins, whatever they might be, without bloating the interface. I am more into the idea of investigating whether I could add some sort of dynamic behavior to the markers (e.g. some sort of animation).

I placed a pin. Added an address to it, and then an inline image. Got the view I wanted, and then checked the frontend. But it seemed like it showed an earlier view I had selected in the backend and not the newest.

I never encountered that issue. Is there a chance that it might have to do with some caching setting? Does this happen on a specific site or did you encounter it on different occasions? If it is persistent, please send me some details of the environment that you are using it (which theme and probably a list of the other plugins that you have installed), in order to try and reproduce it.

Thank you for taking the time and providing me with such extensive feedback, I appreciate it!

Hi Giorgos

Happy to be helping out!
I am replying now as I am using the plugin on a customer site.

Have a great day!

Paal Joachim