Dynamic Merchant Page OG Image

[dadofsambonzuki]

The OG image for the merchant page should either:

a) be specific to the merchant category;

b) be dynamically generated with a pin on the map, perhaps with the pin representing the merchant category.

[dadofsambonzuki]

I think I prefer b) as it's more useful and easier to implement and maintain.

[secondl1ght]

Yeah we can dynamically generate the location of the merchant with a pin on the map - I guess the question is, should there be other elements incorporated into the design like the merchant's name etc. Or just have a full size image of the map?

[secondl1ght]

The title of the link already has the name of the merchant, so maybe it's not needed? If we do end up going with only the map as the image then maybe we don't actually need a design for this.

[dadofsambonzuki]

Yeah, the title is already enough I think.

Just a map with the usual merchant type specific pin.

This might help: https://docs.stadiamaps.com/static-maps/

There are options in there for caching and also for labelling (if we want to see what a pin label looks like easily).

[secondl1ght]

Ok sounds like we will keep this pretty simple. If we want the style and pin to match what users see on the main map I think we will have to do this in-house. If we don't care about it showing the same type of pin and icon we could use something like Stadia.

[dadofsambonzuki]

Pin should represent merchant category like the main map.