Mission map

I am a parent of a missionary in the Brazil Londrina mission. I am trying to get a good map of the mission to make a wall map, but the mission office was only able to send me a photo of a map they had of the stakes in their mission, and the boundaries seem totally different from the little line drawing that came with the mission information. Is there a good source of good quality maps of the up-to-date mission boundaries?

you can get the mission boundaries from beta-maps.lds.org

pburt wrote:I am a parent of a missionary in the Brazil Londrina mission. I am trying to get a good map of the mission to make a wall map, but the mission office was only able to send me a photo of a map they had of the stakes in their mission, and the boundaries seem totally different from the little line drawing that came with the mission information. Is there a good source of good quality maps of the up-to-date mission boundaries?

I don't know if it will make a good wall map or not but with beta maps you can see the boundaries of the missions (after logging in).

ryan jones wrote:I don't know if it will make a good wall map or not but with beta maps you can see the boundaries of the missions (after logging in).

How can that help these missionary parents? I assume that their experience with beta-maps would be the same as mine: When I log in, the only mission boundaries I see are those of the mission in which my own ward belongs. (As a Church employee, I expect that your privileges are more general, so after logging in you can see more.)

Never mind. I tried searching for Brazil, checked the box for mission boundaries, and they do appear.

boomerbubba wrote:How can that help these missionary parents? I assume that their experience with beta-maps would be the same as mine: When I log in, the only mission boundaries I see are those of the mission in which my own ward belongs. (As a Church employee, I expect that your privileges are more general, so after logging in you can see more.)

I think any member can find mission boundaries just fine, as long as they log in. Here's what I did:

• Sign in to beta maps
• Select the Find Places tab
• In the "Enter the name or ID of an LDS place" section, enter "Brazil Londrina Mission"
• Click "Search"
• One mission result is returned; click on Missions and then "Brazil Londrina Mission"
• The map of Brazil is displayed, zoomed in on the Brazil Londrina Mission, with the borders of the mission displayed in blue.

I stand corrected on the beta-maps site. This feature is pretty slick!

It does not seem well suited to create a wall map. I can't think of a good way to do that automatically, but a low-tech solution might be just to acquire a commercially published map and trace the boundaries. But aside from the benefits that a wall map might offer, for interactive tracking of the missionary's progress in detail, the parents might really prefer to zoom and pan this web site, which also shows details such as meetinghouses.

Thanks to all. I will try this when I get home and find my member number.

Okay, very nice. Couldn't find a mission map till now. How would anyone know this exists without this forum?

gotta be in tune...

It works wonderfully. Thanks, everybody.

OK, with my usual bad luck, I got the map to show the printed version with my son's mission boundaries, but after I messed around with some things to try to get it just like I wanted, now it doesn't show borders. It seems like it has saved settings that I cannot find anymore. Can I somehow reset to default settings?

Try going back in and reselect the mission. I think boundaries is a bit fussy and will disappear if you change size or select a different set of boundaries.

pburt wrote:OK, with my usual bad luck, I got the map to show the printed version with my son's mission boundaries, but after I messed around with some things to try to get it just like I wanted, now it doesn't show borders.

It did appear to me that in the "Print friendly" view of the map, the boundary layer is not present. I don't know if it is supposed to be present or not (that is, whether this a design limitation or a bug). But that's the way it seems to work. You might submit feedback using the beta-maps site and see what happens.

Even if the boundaries were present, it would probably not make a very good wall map because it is scaled for a single sheet of paper. That is why I said above that I don't think this site will automatically produce the wall map you originally said you wanted. For that, you might just be better off drawing a low-tech copy of the boundaries on a commercially produced wall map. You could zoom and pan the beta-maps web site on-screen, and copy the boundaries to that map with a pen or marker. Sounds like a fun family home evening.

Poqui wrote:gotta be in tune...

LOL! :p I'll consider myself there then.

Boomer, when I first tried it, the mission borders showed and even printed, but when I tried some other things then it no longer did. Until you said it did the same for you, I thought I had just messed up my settings. Evidently something went wrong with the site, because my innocent wanderings could not affect it for everyone--or could they? Hmmmm.

The beta site and the boundary server in particular take pretty heavy loads, especially when we all start playing with it at the same time. The site was exhibiting signs of overload (data never populating on the map) for me until about 1 minute ago.

That sounds right. It has been really erratic--working fine, and then grinding to a halt, with no predictability. But when it works, it seems great.

Has the beta maps site been curtailed? It still shows my personal ward, but will not search for anything, such as my son's mission.

pburt wrote:Has the beta maps site been curtailed? It still shows my personal ward, but will not search for anything, such as my son's mission.

I can duplicate that if I am not signed in. After signing in it will let me search for a mission. Please check to see if logging in helps.

I logged in with a login that is different from the login used on this forum, and it still won't search. It takes me to https://beta-maps.lds.org/index.jsf?con ... nId=130517 and gives me an error that says, "This is a "server-side" error, meaning the problem is not with your PC or Internet connection but instead is a problem with the web site's server." It will not log in with the username and password from the LDSTech site.

pburt wrote:I logged in with a login that is different from the login used on this forum, and it still won't search. It takes me to https://beta-maps.lds.org/index.jsf?con ... nId=130517 and gives me an error that says, "This is a "server-side" error, meaning the problem is not with your PC or Internet connection but instead is a problem with the web site's server." It will not log in with the username and password from the LDSTech site.

They are using the LDS Account login. That is the same one you use for LUWS (Ward website)

OK, when I search "brazil" it says too many results, so refine search. When I add "londrina" it used to, back on March 16-17, give me the opportunity to see mission boundaries. But it has not since then.

pburt wrote:OK, when I search "brazil" it says too many results, so refine search. When I add "londrina" it used to, back on March 16-17, give me the opportunity to see mission boundaries. But it has not since then.

I am having troubles as well. I was able to get to the mission map by searching on one of the stakes in the mission and then in the other LDS places | Boundaries, I checked missions and was able to click on the Londrina Mission.

I would recommend submitting feedback through the site with the searching problem.

Thank you for exploring this. I will try that when I get a chance. I already gave feedback about the problem I was having.

None of the links in this tread work.

Sorry. None of the links on the thread work. How do I get to beta-maps?

7thward wrote:Sorry. None of the links on the thread work. How do I get to beta-maps?

This is a very old thread. The links to beta-maps don't work because that maps site went live long ago. Just go to maps.LDS.org. Or there's a new beta at LDS.org/rcmaps

Back when I first asked this question the first map site was in beta, so had lots of problems. Is there stuff on the new beta that makes it worth looking at?

pburt2006 wrote:Back when I first asked this question the first map site was in beta, so had lots of problems. Is there stuff on the new beta that makes it worth looking at?

The 'new' beta is now the current system.

I would also like to try seeing mission boundaries but the links in this thread no longer seem to work for beta maps. Any guidance?

jbrannellyjr wrote:I would also like to try seeing mission boundaries but the links in this thread no longer seem to work for beta maps. Any guidance?

The production version includes mission boundaries. The beta went to production the end of April.

To see the mission boundaries make sure "Missions" is checked in the Boundaries section of the Map Layers tool.

Very disappointed that the LDS Maps site does not allow you to select in the Map Overlay --- Areas or Missions. Used to be able to know what Area missionaries were in and their Mission boundaries, and it would show the Mission boundaries. I know you said to check "Mission," but neither that nor the "Area" option is as available options to check. Any ideas?? Thanks.

[INDENT]Very disappointed that the LDS Maps site does not allow you to select in the Map Overlay --- Areas or Missions. Used to be able to know what Area missionaries were in and their Mission boundaries, and it would show the Mission boundaries. I know you said to check "Mission," but neither that nor the "Area" option is as available options to check. Any ideas?? Thanks. [/INDENT]

rapnap wrote:Very disappointed that the LDS Maps site does not allow you to select in the Map Overlay --- Areas or Missions.

It does for me. To verify, I zoomed the map display far enough out to view several mission areas and sure enough all the missions boundaries appeared as red boundaries. When I selected Areas, dark purple boundaries for the areas appeared. Note that Areas are not missionary service areas within a mission. They are Church administrative areas.

rapnap wrote:Used to be able to know what Area missionaries were in and their Mission boundaries, and it would show the Mission boundaries.

I don't recall missionary areas being available. Those areas are merely the boundaries of the ward they are serving in. The Directory displays the mission area in a small map below the name of the missionary selected. You can view the mission boundaries of missionaries serving from any unit of your stake by selecting the unit in the Directory; then select Missionary; then select the name of the missionary in the "Filter Results" column. There is a link in the right column to view the mission boundaries in LDS Maps.

rapnap wrote:I know you said to check "Mission," but neither that nor the "Area" option is as available options to check. Any ideas??.

In the Maps toolbar on the right side click the icon that looks like a 3D stack of paper. "Map Layers" will be displayed for the context help when the mouse pointer is hovered over the icon. In the layers tool click the "Boundaries" section. There should be three options. They are Selected, Missions, and Areas. Check the options you would like to have displayed. "Selected" means the boundaries of the unit selected in the left column will be displayed.

Hello!

This seems like a good place to post an issue I am having. I am currently serving out in the mission field. Before the recent update to maps, I could have it show me ward and stake boundaries of anywhere in the world (including my mission) now I am limited to only my home ward and stake. I am trying to print off a map of the stake I am serving as a zone leader in, to help facilitate things between the missionaries here, it would also help to be able to get the ward boundaries within it, since that is their areas. Why did this feature get removed?

I know I am supposed to somehow have it show which ward I am serving in, but that doesn't appear to be setup for me. I contacted my ward clerk, but after weeks nothing has been fixed. Would this allow me to see the ward/stake boundaries of the zone I am serving in?

Thanks!
-Elder Johnson

TeddJohnson wrote: I am currently serving out in the mission field. Before the recent update to maps, I could have it show me ward and stake boundaries of anywhere in the world (including my mission) now I am limited to only my home ward and stake.

You must be signed in to get detail information such as boundaries. If you are having issues after signing in then there may be issues with your LDS Account.

TeddJohnson wrote:I know I am supposed to somehow have it show which ward I am serving in, but that doesn't appear to be setup for me. I contacted my ward clerk, but after weeks nothing has been fixed. Would this allow me to see the ward/stake boundaries of the zone I am serving in?

Your mission office may have a program that displays this information. But there is no integration of mission information generally available other than as described below.

The local clerk has no control over data for missionaries serving in their area. Clerks do maintain membership data for missionaries serving from their unit. Missionary information, such as what area or unit a missionary is assigned to, is controlled and updated by your mission office. That information is then displayed in the unit Directory. There is a link below the small mission map to have the mission boundary display on the Maps program.

The unit in which your records reside determines the data automatically available to you. For out of unit leaders this is extended to include the unit in which they are serving. For example, when you sign into Maps and select "My Ward and Stake" you will see the information for your home unit and stake. There is no feature in Maps that I am aware of that automatically gives missionaries unit or boundary information for the unit in which they are serving.

If you sign in to the Directory application you will see the data for your home unit and stake. Once there you can select Missionary in the left column and then select your name under the "Serving Missionaries" group in the middle "Filter Results" column. Your mission boundaries will then be displayed. There is no display for the unit or area in which you are serving. To get that boundary you must specifically use the Maps program and enter the name of the unit.