Customer UI Feature Requests (tl;dr: MOAR MAPS)

Ideas & Suggestions DCS feature requests - voting
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I have a few feature requests for the customer dashboard UI relating to the map displaying the location of nodes holding pieces of files.

  1. Show map without previewing file: It would be great to access the piece distribution map for a file directly, without needing to open a preview (which can trigger unwanted downloads and incur download charges) or create a linkshare link and append ?map to the URL. Perhaps a link from the file index in the bucket view of the dashboard next to the Download or Share icons for each file, or in the “…” menu for each file?

  2. More map views: I’d like to be able to view a map showing the distribution of pieces for multiple selected files (e.g. with color-coded dots per file), or for an entire bucket, project, or account. Animated live views showing uploads, repairs, or movement between nodes would be neat. (Also handy for marketing!)

  3. Info about geographical distribution: A table showing the geographical distribution of file pieces across files, buckets, or an entire account would be interesting. For example, 14% of a file is in the Western US, 17% in the Eastern US, 9% in the UK, 5% in Sweden, etc. Essentially the same data as the map, but in tabular form.

Thanks!

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If you’re interested in experimenting yourself take a look at Geolocation API · Issue #51 · storj/roadmap · GitHub. The example program there is similar to 1 and could be expanded on to get 2 and 3.

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