Bill Tabor
EF5
I was attempting to make a Spotternetwork report the other day in the field and had a bit of trouble. Problem was I was on a slow connection and Spotternetwork wants me to first flag the position of the incident via Google maps and a pin that you move around. Problem was Google maps when it initializes is zoomed out all the way to national view. It took me forever with a lot of persistence to get Google maps to zoom in and then find my position and move the pin. I had to do this about 5 or 6 times at lowering zoom levels and wait each time while Spotternetwork determined the locations of the pin for reporting. The whole time I was looking at the computer rather than the storm activity I was trying to monitor outside the vehicle.
Question: Is there a quicker way of doing this? Am I just missing something here. One thought I have is that Spotternetwork could initialize the Google maps and the pin for the activity report in the current location of the Spotter via gps and zoom to an appropriate level so that the pin could quickly be repositioned up to 20 miles or so for accuracy. I looked for a quicker interface than the online website form but didn't see anything. How do the rest of you do this, and how much of an issue has this been for anyone else?
Question: Is there a quicker way of doing this? Am I just missing something here. One thought I have is that Spotternetwork could initialize the Google maps and the pin for the activity report in the current location of the Spotter via gps and zoom to an appropriate level so that the pin could quickly be repositioned up to 20 miles or so for accuracy. I looked for a quicker interface than the online website form but didn't see anything. How do the rest of you do this, and how much of an issue has this been for anyone else?