Well here is a wrench to throw into the works. I was working on a core UI architecture for an Oil and Gas application that had three tabs: Home, Search and Map. Our big debate was should the search results, which could be a huge spreadsheet view, be reflected on the map or should the map be separate. The advantage of linking them is the Geologist could find all wells operated by company X that produced Y and immediately have the map display this when switching tabs. If all these wells are in the North Sea basin you do not want to see the default world view map under the map tab. But an engineer may be doing reserve analysis using the search tab and reviewing drilling locations in the map. Two distinctly different workflows where linking the tabs would be very bad.
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