Sorry to hear that and glad that things are starting to get better for you. I believe this could be the app on your Google maps not having the appropriate privileges. Is this API key also for static maps?

By the way, what happened to you? Were you injured from hiking?

Sorry to hear that and glad that things are starting to get better for you.

Thanks Mark. After two years I'm finally able to do a semi-slow jog and carefully workout. Still getting head aches, however not as bad and not as often (on average only part of the day in pain).

I believe this could be the app on your Google maps not having the appropriate privileges. Is this API key also for static maps?

Indeed you are correct. I swapped to the static map API and it worked right away. I'm curious why not use the dynamic JavaScript version? Being able to navigate where the person lives helps give a better idea of their location. In addition to this if the map someday displayed nearby members or friends it would need to be dynamic.

By the way, what happened to you? Were you injured from hiking?

The event happened on August 25, 2014.

It's a long story. Basically I was mountain climbing with a friend of mine, the terrain got sketchy, I decided to take the lead in hopes to get us out safely, he got impatient and went down when he wasn't supposed to, and then disaster struck. He knocked down a 3 foot wide boulder. I did a great dodge running out of the way, however while the rock fell it hit something and flew my way. It hit me in two parts of my head immediately knocking me out. After this I fell about 300-400 feet down the mountain, miraculously I caught an edge just before a major cliff band (my trekking poles flew down the mountain much further). My left small finger was completely shattered (hence why part of my hand had to be amputated), got a permanent spinal compression, pretty bad head injury, completely split my collar bone (required two extra surgeries), a neck fracture, tore something in my knee, followed by a lot of other "minor injuries" such as getting stabbed in my kidney. Spent almost 5 months in an arm sling (basically was in two arm slings for two months), had to re-learn how to spell (months after the accident I discovered I couldn't even go through the alphabet), lots of therapy was required, had to wear a neck cast, had a lot of dept from Canada, and had to do many other things. It was the worst pain I had ever had, months of it.

I have the full version of the story on my personal website: https://joshlewis.us/i-have-fallen

This was a quick run down of what happened. It was a very difficult era that seemed unless. At first I couldn't even eat through a straw due to not being allowed to use either hand and having a messed up neck. Had to be spoon fed until my neck recovered enough to bend over. This is why I hadn't been as active, however a few times I tried to make some efforts to help out during testing phase of ES 1.3, 1.4, and 2.0. During a seemingly hopeless era for myself I was extremely excited about the progress you guys were making. The other huge issue I was dealing with was my head injury. I have reason to believe that I got brain damage in the fall. I lost a lot of my memory, have a harder time remembering things, and have to fight the head aches.

Moving forward to this day I am perhaps more hopeful than ever. I still have to live with the pain but have new opportunities and have decided to become "Jovial Josh". I really need to write my JED review about how thankful I am for the dedication you guys have invested in your guy's work. As you know I had financial difficulty this year but am confident that next year will be a better year.

Using interactive maps is heavy and this is why if you noticed, the only parts that includes interactive maps are areas that involve "forms"

Ouch, that's really bad and sorry to hear that. I am really glad that everything is almost sorted out for you now and looking forward to get you active again.

Fair enough. I guess I'm a little confused with how interactive maps will work when you can only have a static API or a JavaScript API in the backend settings. (as in one or the other, but not both)

As for the word choice of Settings > General > Location > Google Maps
I suggest changing the text "Configure the API settings for Google Maps" to "Configure the API settings for Google Static Maps". This way people know that they should use the static maps API. My word choice is based on how Google defines it in the HTML title: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/static-maps/

Events need a way for users to access directions and view the map well. I understand that the JavaScript API could be a bit too heavy. So I thought of a great compromise. What if we made the map "image" itself link to the Google Maps page and had the location text below link to it as well? This would increase the chances of the map being used to navigate to the event. In addition to this we could replace the hover text "View in Google Maps" with "Directions" which could link using the following syntax:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/ADDRESS-NAME (event address)

The directions example mentioned above is pretty seamless in terms of flexibility with names. Remote places work fine too.

Hi there,

I suggest changing the text "Configure the API settings for Google Maps" to "Configure the API settings for Google Static Maps". This way people know that they should use the static maps API.

We will see if we can implement this in future release version. Thanks for this input

What if we made the map "image" itself link to the Google Maps page and had the location text below link to it as well? This would increase the chances of the map being used to navigate to the event.

Actually, did you meant locations of the events itself or locations shared on the event streams? if location's of the event itself, we have shown it in full address and if click it, it redirects you to the locations using it full address as you can see here http://screencast.com/t/8grtuFOLQyQX and http://screencast.com/t/ARtFbvkttFH. Please advice.

Actually, did you meant locations of the events itself or locations shared on the event streams? if location's of the event itself, we have shown it in full address and if click it, it redirects you to the locations using it full address as you can see here http://screencast.com/t/8grtuFOLQyQX and http://screencast.com/t/ARtFbvkttFH. Please advice.

On the event page itself in the information section. So for example if this event's info section map was wrapped with an anchor link (such as http://maps.google.com/?q=Eldorado%20Peak,%20Washington,%20USA) it would bring you to the Google Maps by simply clicking the map itself. A minor detail, but would make it easier to access the map. I don't see an advantage to having the image not link to the map page.

Hi Josh,

On the event page itself in the information section. So for example if this event's info section map was wrapped with an anchor link (such as http://maps.google.com/?q=Eldorado%20Peak,%20Washington,%20USA) it would bring you to the Google Maps by simply clicking the map itself.

Sorry for the confusion above. But in the maps itself, there's link to show them to google maps when you hover on the map as shown http://screencast.com/t/lqb7zL0ycB and for now we can simply click on the maps. But it would be best if you can submit a feature request regarding this issues in our voice page -> http://stackideas.com/voices, so everyone else could vote for it, the more people request on this, and we will priority consider it. Thanks for your understandings.