I could see that being quite beneficial for specific places like portages, campsites, entry points. In a way that is already available when viewing the information in the sidebar that opens up when the place is clicked on - I just click on a photo thumbnail and I get the viewer, which is about 60% as large as my 24'' screen. For the purpose of trip reconnaissance, completely adequate. Having to click on the place on the map and find the photos in the information sidebar is for me completely satisfactory. Not having to open the sidebar would not be a huge advantage for me because when reconnoitering, I tend to want to read the rating/comments anyway.

I have just noticed that clicking on one photo on a portage or a small stream takes me to the viewer where I can see all the photos that have been posted for that portage/stream. That feature deserves a big thumbs up.

My post was more directed at the photo albums. The albums posted are for the most part photographic reports of paddlers' canoe trips. Looking at the photos in an album is a way of experiencing that person's adventure. It would be nice to be able to click on an album and get to a viewer wherein the photos in that album could be viewed one after another, preferably full screen.

Another issue with albums is the order of the photos. I generally try to post my photos in order of the canoe route and I like to view photos in an album the same way. It would be nice if there were a way that a contributor could determine the order that the photos are in.

I just tried that and it does work. It's just that upon right clicking and opening in a new window, I still have to go through the photo edit page where I left click on the photo to get the big view. Getting back to the album via Ctrl-W is faster than the way I've been doing it and I do very much appreciate the tip.

What i have been doing in left clicking on the photo in the album, which takes me to the photo edit page where i left click on the photo to get the big view. To get back I click the go back arrow and get back to the photo edit page and then another back arrow click to get back to the album. Kind of tedious!

Although your tip is really helpful, I still think a photo viewer would be a really nice thing to have.

I agree completely with the photo viewer idea. Having the description/comments appear along with the popup would be icing on the cake.

The ability to order the photos would be a big help. To me, the best would be if it could be done by dragging the thumbnails around in a grid or list.

I'm almost ashamed to make other suggestions if the above stuff got taken care of. On the other time, if Christmas is here anyway: When I enter the locations for photos, I have to, for each photo, click on the line for location and then the map comes up. It would be nice if the map that came up would have the same appearance as for when I entered the location of the previous photo. (Sort of like in some computer applications when doing a save-as with a file - the last used folder comes up.

P.S. I forgot to login. #7 was my post.

I really like being able to click on photo icons on the map and having the photo viewer come up. Great feature!

Come to think of it, this feature is something like the photos on Google Earth and Street View in Google Maps and useful to me in the same way. When planning any trip, canoe or otherwise, I open up the digital map and look at photos along the route.