# Improvement ideas for select from map

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/improvement-ideas-for-select-from-map/41503>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Tags:** geo, odk-collect\
**Created:** [May 11, 2023, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/improvement-ideas-for-select-from-map/41503 "2023-05-11T10:32:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alain\_Benard](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/alain_benard/32/17958_2.png) [@Alain\_Benard](https://forum.getodk.org/u/Alain_Benard)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/improvement-ideas-for-select-from-map/41503/1 "2023-05-11T10:32:38Z")

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Hi,  
we use a form with select\_one\_from\_file with geojson file and users give us feedback. Maybe it's just not possible but it's a good idea for future releases. I give you these requests or ideas (or response) :

- plus (+) and minus (-) buttons to zoom in addition to the fingers, which are not always easy to use, especially on small screens

- to be able to define the initial zoom level of the map and above all to have the possibility of **keeping the previous zoom level** , in particular in selection loops. (we select trees quite close to each other and it is painful to resize each time)

- Have the possibility to display data in the form of a label visible at certain zoom levels and possibly maskable by the operator

- The color of the symbols is defined at the level of each element of the geojson file and is no longer modifiable thereafter. We manage to hide elements that have already been selected (in a repeat loop) but ideally it would be desirable to change their color.

Some features may be possible but I don't know how to implement them, others may already be expressed with more or less complex or even impossible implementations, but at least we will have expressed what would be ideal for our use and probably interesting for others.

Thanks for advance for your response

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