What comes first? [23.10.2007]
Virginia,
It occured to me that one of the reasons why I seem to breaking things might have to do with a slight difference in our conceptualisation of the blog.
I originally imagined that posts would be driven by markers/locations. Create a marker, which expands into text, images (perhaps more than one) or other types of files i.e. one marker per text entry. In using the blog I realise that it has been conceived from the basis that posts (text/images) come first and location markers second….i.e. create/write the post and then locate it (possibly with more than one location marker). Do I have this right? As I say I'm not sure if this is even a problem... Deb
Deb,
You're exactly right about that - we decided that for long-term flexibility, it would be better to allow multiple points to be associated with a single post (so that we can introduce polylines at some point, for example), which led us to build the system such that a post has a point (or points), rather than the other way around.
But there's no reason you shouldn't maintain a one-post-to-one-point ratio if it suits you to do so. That certainly works with the current setup of the site perfectly well (or, in fact, better than well). Virgina