Anyway to turn on Names on Map Tags?

Hello Folks,
EQP here looking for any method to turn on the last name or any other identifier on the map pins.
I've looked this up a while ago for Google Maps... trying to find a way to make a printable map that you could actually carry around that would have last names pinned to their house location.

Thanks for any ideas.
Paul

The feature you are looking for is there. When printing the map, check the box for "Name tag (map only)" in the Display Options to get the household names displayed. But the zoom level, the nearness of households to each other at the current zoom level, and grouping of households affects the display. If the zoom level is set close in enough, households are not too close to be combined in mapping the location markers, and households are not grouped together, you will get individual household names displayed in the printed map.

In my testing I was not able to get individual household names for every household unless the zoom level was close enough that the entire ward required the map to be broken in to six pages. Our ward covers an area measuring approximately six miles by two and three quarter miles - the smallest area of all the wards/branches in our stake.

This can be done with the Maps application on LDS.org right now:

1. On LDS.org, go to Sign In/Tools
2. Choose Maps, and sign in if you aren't already signed in
3. Choose "View Your Ward"
4. Click the Print icon at the bottom (Printer-Friendly Map)
5. Click Display Options
6. Check the box by "Name tag"
7. Adjust the zoom as needed

Depending on your ward's geography and membership, you might alternatively consider the Map Numbers option instead of Name Tags, since it takes less space on the map; you then correlate the numbers with the household list that is printed.

You guys rock! Thanks I'll give it a try.

Where did this feature go??? I was extremely disappointed to discover that this hugely useful feature (the additional options available under "Printer Friendly" view) has disappeared.

Is it just me, or is anyone else seeing this?

mbrinson wrote:Is it just me, or is anyone else seeing this?

Yes, it appears to have been removed.

Anyone have any idea as to why?

I would really like to use this feature too, but not just with the Print button. Why can't we display name tags for the members on the screen? Not just all members, but sorted by category: High Priests, Elders, YM/YW, Relief Society, etc. I wrote an app about 20 years ago that did this, in the pre-Internet days. I called it "Ward Perfect". How hard can it be?

kurtfk wrote:Why can't we display name tags for the members on the screen?

The name tags do display on the screen. But they do not display in the manner you may want them. A name is only displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over a location marker. If the marker is a group of households then click the "click to view more details" icon for the group location marker to display the names of all the households. There currently is no feature to turn on all the name tags at once on the screen.

kurtfk wrote:Not just all members, but sorted by category: High Priests, Elders, YM/YW, Relief Society, etc. I wrote an app about 20 years ago that did this, in the pre-Internet days. I called it "Ward Perfect". How hard can it be?

Even if this display implementation has been suggested, it is not the level of difficulty that determines whether it is implemented or not. The community is not the customer for this application. Rather a church department such as the Priesthood Department is the customer. ICS only implements those features approved by the sponsoring church department.

Thank you. I can understand why that is so. However, do the sponsoring church departments take suggestions? I hope so.

kurtfk wrote:Thank you. I can understand why that is so. However, do the sponsoring church departments take suggestions? I hope so.

Certainly. That's one of the purposes of the Feedback link on the bottom of many pages on LDS.org (and you can use the link on the LDS.org home page if you want to give feedback on a page that has no link).

What happened to the map printing functions? A week ago we were able to print a map and in display options you could customize the map. Certainly those features are not being removed are they?

[Moderator note: I moved this post from its original forum section (Beta Maps) to the correct forum section (Maps) and merged it with the existing topic for this issue.]

dwpdds wrote:What happened to the map printing functions? A week ago we were able to print a map and in display options you could customize the map. Certainly those features are not being removed are they?

As you can see in this post, this feature has been changed. At this point we have not heard if this removal is temporary or permanent or why the change was made.

Suggestions can be made via the feedback link on most lds.org pages. Your stake president can also submit suggestions through his priesthood leadership at church headquarters.

So sad. I sure hope it is brought back.

dwpdds wrote:What happened to the map printing functions? A week ago we were able to print a map and in display options you could customize the map. Certainly those features are not being removed are they?

I did use the feedback link to send a note to ask for this feature back. During the hurricane season in Florida, we use this feature to print out maps prior to storms in case there is a situation where access to the Internet is not possible. Those of us who remember Hurricane Andrew in south Florida know how much of the infrastructure was interrupted during those first few days. Being able to print the maps that previous capability gave us was extremely important.

nicklewis wrote:

dwpdds wrote:What happened to the map printing functions? A week ago we were able to print a map and in display options you could customize the map. Certainly those features are not being removed are they?

I did use the feedback link to send a note to ask for this feature back. During the hurricane season in Florida, we use this feature to print out maps prior to storms in case there is a situation where access to the Internet is not possible. Those of us who remember Hurricane Andrew in south Florida know how much of the infrastructure was interrupted during those first few days. Being able to print the maps that previous capability gave us was extremely important.

Since the hurricane season is now, and we know nothing about plans for redeveloping this feature online, you might want to explore offline solutions using third-party software to print member names on large maps with boundaries. I discuss some of those in this thread.

BTW, there might be a problem downloading boundary KML files for external apps to use. That functionality used to be available in CDOL, but seems to have disappeared. (Perhaps that issue is specific to my unit or my personal login privileges.) But the download of member locations from lds.org still works.

RossEvans wrote:BTW, there might be a problem downloading boundary KML files for external apps to use. That functionality used to be available in CDOL, but seems to have disappeared. (Perhaps that issue is specific to my unit or my personal login privileges.) But the download of member locations from lds.org still works.

It is still there in CDOL and it looks like you should have rights. The one issue is that the KMZ files are only available on the stake (it has ward boundaries too), even though it looks like a ward should have them (I'll fix that).

Edit: The KMZ files on the ward now actually pull up the ward boundaries for all the wards in the stake.