A Smarter Location Filter for Explore
The Explore location filter now works the way you'd expect — pick a place, see the opportunities near it. Plus virtual open calls get their own donut pin on the map.
- Anchor-driven location filter — pick a city, get opportunities near it
- Cleaner filter bar with active pills and a mobile filter sheet
- Auto-apply scope when picking a Mapbox anchor override
A Smarter Location Filter for Explore
Filtering opportunities by location used to be clunky. You'd pick a city, but the results would include anything tagged at the country level, the region level, or loosely "worldwide." Worse, picking a new city sometimes left the old filter lingering.
We rebuilt the location filter around a simpler idea: you pick one anchor — a city, a region, a country — and Artsume figures out what's actually near it.
How it works now
Open the Location filter on Explore and type a place. Pick a Mapbox result and the filter instantly applies the right scope: city-level if you picked a city, country-level if you picked a country. No extra clicks to confirm.
Active filters show up as pills above the results. One tap clears them. The whole filter bar got a light redesign — more readable on desktop, and a proper bottom-sheet on mobile so you can set filters with your thumb without fighting the keyboard.
Virtual opportunities, finally on the map
Before this, if an opportunity was virtual — a remote residency, an online exhibition, a fully-digital commission — it had nowhere to live on the map. Now virtual opportunities get their own donut pin: a round marker that floats above the rest of the map so you can see at a glance how many virtual calls are in the feed.
Under the hood
- Opportunity location scopes (city, region, country, virtual) are now fully populated in the database, so filters behave predictably
- The Explore URL now carries your anchor location as a query param, so sharing a filtered view actually works
- Legacy filter URLs still work — we added a shim so anything you've bookmarked continues to load correctly
Try it out on Explore. If something feels off, let us know at support@artsume.com.
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