# Map files for places (two small polish questions)

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**Created:** [October 23, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/map-files-for-places-two-small-polish-questions/10146 "2026-10-23T03:15:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![petermgrund](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/petermgrund/32/9648_2.png) [@petermgrund](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/petermgrund)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/map-files-for-places-two-small-polish-questions/10146/1 "2026-10-23T03:15:23Z")

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Thank you for the MIME support in 26.10.2. This has been on my wish list for a long time and it works well. Two things I noticed after adding a few dozen of them, both cosmetic, so feel free to tell me I am nitpicking:

- Each map file is a media object with no thumbnail so the Media page now shows rows of generic file icons mixed in with the photos. At a glance it looks like a lot of broken thumbnails (even though I do know that _actually_ broken thumbnails carry a different icon). Would it make sense to hide map files from the Media grid by default, or to give them a distinct icon, or to let a filter exclude them by MIME type? I like the new advanced filter feature, but because it seems to refresh after the page reloads, it doesn’t seem like something I could use for this. (I was considering tagging all MIME files).
- On a place page, the first gallery item is used as the profile picture, so a place whose only media is its map file gets the blank file icon in the corner. Could map files be skipped?

If either of these is intentional I would be glad to understand the reasoning. I may be thinking about this the wrong way since in my mind the map file is better conceptualized as a property of the place rather than as media in its own right.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-22 at 10.58.12 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/e/e8dd30f756ec1ef772803f41c6aea106006efcf8.jpeg)

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-22 at 10.58.25 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/5/5de34e24c420484ed5cb758f4079300bc14ebcd6.png)

Thanks for your time.

Here is my version information:  
`Gramps 6.0.8`  
`Gramps Web API 3.24.0`  
`Gramps Web Frontend 26.10.2`  
`Gramps QL 0.5.0`  
`Sifts 1.4.2`  
`locale: en`  
`multi-tree: true`  
`task queue: true`  
`OCR: true`  
`chat: true`