NUKnightLab / NUKnightLab/StoryMapJS

bad lat/lon specifications causing editor hangups

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Description

Users who are interpreting the helper text to mean that their lat/lon values should be enclosed in angle brackets <>, are having editor hangups due to the inability to interpret the resulting bracketed values.

In general, we should probably clean out non-numeric characters when we parse lat/lon from the input here https://github.com/NUKnightLab/StoryMapJS/blob/master/templates/edit.html#L1621

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Research direction

Start at templates/edit.html around line 1621 and reproduce the editor hangup with latitude and longitude values enclosed in angle brackets. Check how the input is parsed and verify that bracketed values no longer prevent the editor from interpreting the coordinates. Done means the reported input is handled without an editor hangup.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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