[openstreetmap-website] Map no longer usable on small mobile screen (#431)

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

Usability wise I understand bringing the controls together, another change I noticed is that the URL is now responsive, move the map and the URL changes as well (so you don’t really need to go to the Share option, you can copy it from the browser URL window).

HOWEVER, and this is more serious, this latest change has now broken OSM completely on my BlackBerry Curve. I grant you it is not the latest and greatest in mobile technology, however emerging “markets” in Asia, Africa and South-America are unlikely to be filled with people brandishing the latest and greatest S4 and iPhone 5s, they are more likely to use more limited phones, BlackBerry is huge in Indonesia for example because of its free texting between phones.

I wrote a blog post in native not long ago about how I could use OSM on the move, on my Curve, to find more playgrounds nearby our current one. Today I can no longer replicate this on my phone.

Once upon a time I could search and scroll the map on my Curve, then I could no longer search because the search box vanished from the tiny screen, and now I can no longer view the map, I get the header with view, edit, login and all that but the map area below it is white and panning and zooming don’t work (because there is no zoom control anymore) and I don’t see any of the map controls on the tiny sliver I have of the map window.

So hurrah for usability tweaking but a resounding BOO for breaking the map on smaller mobile phones. Perhaps it is time to point to a different website via client detection and put us lesser mobile phones onto a limited but workable edition.

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