Should the titles of maps be equivalent to the query?

[Bubblbu]

I think that the current approach makes sense for most maps. This question never occurred to me prior to seeing this (btw pretty great) map of coronavirus research.

imo, the long (and complex) query badly affects aesthetics as well as UX. It just looks a bit out of place as it takes up a large chunk of the available space, and also doesn't help the user to get an "Overview of xyz" becaues it's just too long and complex to parse.

I have created a seperate issue for the question of dealing with this issue in a more immediate way (#422)

But I was also wondering about giving users the option to label certain maps. I.e., the previous example could simply have the title of "Overview on coronavirus/covid19" and provide access to the full query used to retrieve contents.

[tanteuschi]

Thanks for your thoughts on this. It def. affects the user experience.
Here are my thoughts: some users also want to be able to copy the original query. Therefor just shortening it is not enough, a "copy search query" functionality needs to be introduced as well. As mentioned in #422 we are working on a quick fix.

Giving the map a title would be a nice feature for collaborative editing, when people will be able to create their own maps.
We want to give as much insight on how the maps were created. I am not sure if this functionality is a good idea for automatically created maps, maybe a combination of both... will investigate ;-)
Also we should not forget bubble titles usually give additional context.

[Bubblbu]

copy search query would great and absolutely agree with the rest. I guess titles start making a lot more sense (I guess it even becomes trivial to have a dedicated title for a user map) once editable maps are available that are potentially no longer linked to the original query (apart from being the initial query)

Looking forward to see what you'll come up with for a temporary solution