Help me usability test my website please?

scudsucker said:
... and to answer your question to @gamer16 - I have no idea what this app would be used for, I use Google Maps pins to share location.
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Foxhound5366 said:
Cool. I'm gonna ask you a stupid question, just because I want to see if it's intuitive. How would you describe what the website does?
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It's for sharing a Precise or a Custom pin location. Sometimes the pin isn't very precise especially when you have been stationary or indoors, and sometimes its useful to share a custom pin for example people who live on plots etc etc.
 
gamer16 said:
It's for sharing a Precise or a Custom pin location. Sometimes the pin isn't very precise especially when you have been stationary or indoors, and sometimes its useful to share a custom pin for example people who live on plots etc etc.
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The mapcode in the red text you'd have seen is the really important bit. You're right that it's handy just to get a "custom pin", but the whole point of mapcodes is actually that it can capture any address (on-road or off-road) anywhere in the world in only six characters of text. That makes it language-agnostic (which physical addresses aren't) and way easier to share precise locations telephonically or via handheld radio or even on billboards or business cards or tiny newspaper adverts). The problem I face is how to include that education in the front-end ... for now I'm just setting it up as if people already know the basics. There are FAQs and tutorial videos on the website, but I'll try add the basics in an expanding "help" icon on that core page.
 
It got my position exactly spot on. Probably pinpointing my living room couch.

Seems like the website just read the location from your phone. WhatsApp for example already have the functionality to send your location to someone so I don't really get the point.
 
rietrot said:
It got my position exactly spot on. Probably pinpointing my living room couch.

Seems like the website just read the location from your phone. WhatsApp for example already have the functionality to send your location to someone so I don't really get the point.
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Good to know :) Can you send a location pin to somebody on WhatsApp for somewhere you aren't currently? Or fine-tune the exact location to a specific entrance (e.g. if you're at a mall or a field or whatever)? The real benefit though is the actual mapcode part, explained in the previous post.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
The mapcode in the red text you'd have seen is the really important bit. You're right that it's handy just to get a "custom pin", but the whole point of mapcodes is actually that it can capture any address (on-road or off-road) anywhere in the world in only six characters of text. That makes it language-agnostic (which physical addresses aren't) and way easier to share precise locations telephonically or via handheld radio or even on billboards or business cards or tiny newspaper adverts). The problem I face is how to include that education in the front-end ... for now I'm just setting it up as if people already know the basics. There are FAQs and tutorial videos on the website, but I'll try add the basics in an expanding "help" icon on that core page.
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The best I can think of is if you get a location that's weird to just have a straight forward option of selecting on the map.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Good to know :) Can you send a location pin to somebody on WhatsApp for somewhere you aren't currently? Or fine-tune the exact location to a specific entrance (e.g. if you're at a mall or a field or whatever)? The real benefit though is the actual mapcode part, explained in the previous post.
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Something buggy on that page. If I try to "share map code" the page keeps reloading every second and goes nowhere.
 
rietrot said:
Something buggy on that page. If I try to "share map code" the page keeps reloading every second and goes nowhere.
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Which page? The original one? And which browser are you using, on which device? I'll look into it! It's working for others, but maybe something I can pick up if I duplicate the environment.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Which page? The original one? And which browser are you using, on which device? I'll look into it! It's working for others, but maybe something I can pick up if I duplicate the environment.
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Works now. I'm not sure what went wrong I had a lot of tabs open.
Samsung browser. A20 main page after it picks up the correct location.
 
rietrot said:
That worksView attachment 999514
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Exactly right. Now do you see the power of mapcodes? You give me another way of describing to someone the exact location at a roundabout in Cape Town in four characters, and I'll be impressed. It could have been a point on a beach, an unnamed road in a township, or a point on a massive city highway ... none of which have convenient street numbers or POIs.
 
rietrot said:
Works now. I'm not sure what went wrong I had a lot of tabs open.
Samsung browser. A20 main page after it picks up the correct location.
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The pages use a fair amount of JavaScript. Maybe you tried some action before it had loaded properly. Happy it's working for you now :)
 
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