``` Subject: Re: Map update questions From: Nick Stokoe Date: 08/12/2022, 10:42 To: Anna Thorne CC: Colm DC , GROVE-WHITE Simon ``` Hello Colm, Anna, Just to summarise the last meeting - Anna and I met yesterday to discuss her feedback about the state of the current Owned by Oxford map, and the general conclusions as I recall them follow. Usability need #1: there are two categories of people who will visit the site, represented by the "Type for map" field, who will primarily be interested in one or other of these types of organisation. - Currently there's no way to distinguish these on the map, but we can include the "Type for map" field as a drop-down search filter as a first step. - To do this we need a name for it which will make sense to visiting users - Anna and Simon will try to come up with something. - This arrangement is still possibly a bit unintuitive, however. Users need to know the filter exists and go and set it. - As an alternative, Nick suggested we could publish two maps, each showing one of these two categories, with no filter then required if you have selected the right map. - Anna thought this might work better. - These distinct maps could be implemented as a later step, as slightly more work than adding the filter. Probably the original would stay, and show one category, and a new one added for the latter. Usability need #2: the directory and the drop-down filters currently can only filter by "primary activity". And then, even if an "activities" filter were added, these work separately and are combined by intersection. This makes a search amongst all organisations for membership of a given category (e.g. "food") hard or impossible. - This need suggests we need to combine the "primary activity" and "activities" fields into one, multi-valued field. - We would then need to display this as the directory, and possibly as a filter too. These would permit the same filtering function, approximately, but in different ways. - However, mykomap does not currently support a multi-valued field as a filter, - And possibly not as the directory either (need to check this). - This would also need altering the Airtable columns, and therefore the data factory. - Some extra logic would also be needed in the data factory to combine "primary activities" and "activities" from the "external initiatives" table. - If not implemented, this work would need to be scheduled within DCC's other priorities Usability need #3: the text search only searches by name, so if you search for "food" you don't find all the food providers, just those with "food" in their name - Ideally this would search for the name and the activities too. - (Possibly also other fields? This wasn't discussed however.) - We can add the "primary activity"/"activities" fields to the search index. - However, we may need to check that mykomaps allows searching multiple-valued vocabulary fields (like activities) - If not implemented, this work would need to be scheduled within DCC's other priorities Other points: - Probably we should hide the database panel, if it is not already - Possibly we should exclude the filters, if it is just the activity, and only have a text search in the search panel - The "Relationship" field is not useful for the map and can be omitted. When Nick asked Anna for any time constraints, she said that there are no hard milestones for this coming up, but that mid-January would be the ideal time to have as much of this working as possible. The site is "live" in that people are now looking at it and giving feedback. In general, step-by-step improvements are fine. Next steps: - Anna and Simon need to think of a good user-friendly name for the "Type for map" column - Nick can then add it as a filter - Nick and Colm need to discuss these points and the priorities for the implementation steps. Anna - correct me if I omitted anything or otherwise misinterpreted your viewpoint. Cheers! Nick