new LDS.org maps introduces bug, breaks some LDS.io APIs

[AJ ONeal (Home)]

First: If anyone can get me in touch with members of the team responsible for https://www.lds.org/maps, that would be awesome.

You'll notice that in the official LDS Tools app, there's nothing to tell you what time your church services start, when sacrament meeting starts, or where your ward meetinghouse is, or where your stake center is.

For members who are new or who have been inactive, it's important to know this information.

However, until sometime within the last 3 days it was possible to search for a ward meetinghouse or stake center by its id and get this information. Since it is vitally important information, I was including it with the API query for basic ward information.

Now, that's broken:

https://www.lds.org/maps/services/search?query=Slate%2084057&lang=eng

This means that I'll no longer be able to provide this information in queries for wards until LDS.org fixes this regression introduced in the new version.

I'll try to get a workaround soon.

Also, the LDS.org v1.1 photo api is intermittently broken, hence the LDS.io photo api is also intermittently broken. The same exact request will sometimes succeed and sometimes fail. If anyone has contact information for the person on that team, I would love to have it.

AJ ONeal