Time and user who added a marker?
In SARTopo on a shared map is there a way to find out the user and timestamp for when a marker is added to a map?
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https://help.caltopo.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/9983563967003-Object-attribution-Created-by-for-map-objects-
The creator and time of the marker is in the JSON export. I went down this rabbit hole to deal with certain members of my team. Every team has at least one of these. They would OOPS, "I mistakenly added a marker." "If I don't say anything, no one will know who did it." Or, they would record a personal track but they did not realize that it is being recorded on a team map. I needed a way to figure who so I can have some fun at their expense.
Currently, only the last person who edited the object and the update time is recorded or exportable. SARTopo would have to add additional properties to track the original creator and time and the last person and time who made the change.
The creator code is tied to the log in. However, as users, we cannot back the creator code out to the sign in. I did an exercise where I had everyone on my team create a marker with their name as the label so I can capture their creator code. From this, I created a Python script to ingest the JSON file and read out the fields I needed.
Sam Chan
OCSD SRRU
Yes, adding the user name of who created a marker (any object, actually!) would be extremely helpful, without having to resort to the very clever method described by Sam. Ideally, this could be included in a coordinates printout, as well as in the Bulk Ops list (with column sort option) using a browser. Probably too much for the app (but that would be great too...or at least an option to select just your own objects to show on the map). We also have more than one member that falls into that 'oops' category, or ones who just can't/don't follow the training protocols on how to name things. It's really difficult to figure out who we need to reach out to for further training.
Hey Sam Chan, I exported the json file and opened in Notepad. I'm not seeing a valid date entry. I do see this but can't make sense of it. "updated":1703628217687
Thoughts?
CalTopo records time in UTC but uses UNIX time format in milliseconds.
Sam Chan
OCSD SRRU
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