Comments on: Moving Forward

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:11:57 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you for adding ward boundary lines!!! I’m excited to see them happen. My husband and I have moved several times over the past year and we have been confused/lost for several of those moves. Including to Provo where there are several chapels in one building!

By: Ted Boren

Ted Boren — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:11:11 +0000

@Everybody — lots of good ideas. We’ll throw it all into the hopper and see what we can do.

@Todd — Microsoft and Google do have different coverage. This is true even in the US but is more noticeable outside the US. Check Iceland and Venezuela at street level with both vendors and you’ll see what I mean. Their satellite imagery is also not the same, which especially makes a difference when trying to correct meetinghouse locations.

@Howard — Thanks for the linkage!

By: Howard Wood

Howard Wood — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:29:46 +0000

Excellent!
I even found my ward (in Devon, England) when I had misspelled my home town.

With the new 2.0 iPod software & ‘apps’ being released — the gps features will make all of this so much easier.

I’ve listed this new site several places on my website: http:myldslinks.com

I hope this will help get the news out. I’ve got quite a international viewership & I’m sure they will welcome this feature. We get people from abroad (in Europe) who visit us all the time during the summer months.

Keep up the good work…
Howard from Devon, England

By: Todd Knight

Todd Knight — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:56:30 +0000

This is a very useful tool. From a usability standpoint however, there are to many options that are not needed (google/microsoft, 3 tabs when it seems like you might be able to fit it all in 1 column that has 3 states since you will never want to find directions when you haven’t already received a list of places, and you wont have a list of places unless you search for it… or you could keep the search box visible in all states and just modify the places/get directions potion.)

I would suggest that you make a choice between Microsoft or Google, not both (what is the reasoning behind having both available? Does 1 not have the same coverage as the other? it seems like this would make it harder to add additional features since you are now working with 2 APIs instead of 1).

The purpose of the green marker on the top left isn’t obvious. It would be better if we could just show all meetings places when zoomed in to a certain level, and have us be able to just double click on our location (or right click or just keep cross hairs in the center and overlay a button that says “make this my location” which places your location under the cross hairs)

I love the application! Its good to see such a useful and sleek application being made!

By: Dalin Brinkman

Dalin Brinkman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:49:08 +0000

I’d love to surf this instead of just searching. Say if I am looking to move to an area, like the LA area. I’d have to search every city in the area to get an idea of the chapels nearby. It would be nicer to just go in an just search an area.

Adding institutes, temples, church landmarks would be great.

You could get really geeky and have a search engine with time and traffic for real time searches. I’ve used the meetinghouse locator many times on business trips where I have 2 hours. I have to find a church close enough and with the right times to hit a sacrament meeting when I can. This would be neat…

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:46:39 +0000

Love it, I’ve been hoping for this for a while, I wish maps could be seen and clear boundaries in colors, Our ward lets who they want in our ward regardless of what ward they should go to and tells other people they don’t know to go to another ward, its not fair. There should be visable lines that no one can manupulate. Thanks

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:05:35 +0000

I really like the site and continue the echo to put assigned congregations up on top. I also like having the YSA and other wards there. I didn’t know that if I was Cambodian, I could go to the Oakland 10th Branch.

There is a problem with both maps showing the wrong location for the meeting house, and thus the directions are also off. I checked with Google maps and Microsoft maps and when I put the address in there, they both map correctly, so it looks like it’s a problem somewhere inbetween (address of my building is 110 Los Santos Ct, Vallejo, CA).

As for lds.org, I would really like to make it easier to search for documents or policies. For example, I searched for permission slip and didn’t find what I was looking for in the first several entries, but had a lot of talks with ‘permission’ and ’slip’ in them. When I searched for permission form, it came right up. Maybe have some sort of filter that just searches for documents and policies.

By: Not an MLS fan

Not an MLS fan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:41:47 +0000

This is one of the most beautiful releases of software the Church has released in quite some time! Now, why can’t you do this with MLS!!

[Joel: Stay tuned!]

By: Ted Boren

Ted Boren — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:04:36 +0000

@Arlon — it’s also possible that the stake center is not one of the three closest meetinghouses, and therefore didn’t show in the list. If you think this might be the case, follow Bruce’s steps above, but instead of clicking “Feedback”, click “Find places nearby” in the balloon instead. If you’ve placed the marker right next to the stake center, it should then show up as the closest meetinghouse.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:07:41 +0000

When meetinghouses are missing or in the wrong location you can do the following:
– Zoom the map to the location of the meetinghouse
– Switch to Aerial or Satellite view so you can see the meetinghouse
– Click on the “Place Marker” icon located near the upper left corner of the map
– Using the mouse, place the icon at the location of the meetinghouse
– Click the Feedback link and include any additional information that will help to identify the meetinghouse

We are working very hard to update the locations as we receive them!