I’ve encountered so many weird issues with GNS that I’ve come to assume that they’re doing a lot of public beta testing with rolling updates.
I had one staff member who couldn’t get the search interface to pop up because he had configured his monitors in portrait mode and GNS didn’t like a resolution where it was taller than it was wide. It tends to break if I zoom in with my
browser to make the text larger and it’s unpredictable from workstation to workstation, which makes it difficult to plan staff training sessions. I’ve also found that if I do too many elaborate searches, something seems to go off and then I need to refresh
the browser before I’ll see results again.
It’s not the most intuitive interface and I hate that the fuzzy search behaves differently than the standard search and that there are a lot of hidden features, but at least they have a decent user manual if you click on the question mark
on the upper right tool bar.
Best,
Ronda
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Ronda L. Sewald
Interim Head of Area Studies
Cartographic Resources Cataloger
Indiana University Libraries
Technical Services
Wells Library, Rm. 350
1320 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
Ph. 812-855-2059
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From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]>
On Behalf Of Debbie Hall
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 6:21 AM
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Subject: Re: GNIS geographic names search for foreign places
My problem was that I couldn’t connect to it at all, but they got back to me very quickly to suggest that I change my browser’s default language to US English (it was UK English before). This has fixed the problem so
that I can access it. So that’s a start!
Thanks to everyone who has shared tips.
Debbie
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On Behalf Of LOUISE RATLIFF
Sent: 22 February 2023 20:56
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Subject: Re: GNIS geographic names search for foreign places
You can also click on the "zoom to" box and click on the dot on the map, and get the information that way.
Louise
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:54 PM LOUISE RATLIFF <[log in to unmask]> wrote: