diff --git a/app/models/map.rb b/app/models/map.rb
index 91bc0a11..b5a6de09 100644
--- a/app/models/map.rb
+++ b/app/models/map.rb
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ class Map < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :topics, :through => :topicmappings
   has_many :synapses, :through => :synapsemappings
 
-  #after_touch :save_screenshot
-
   # This method associates the attribute ":image" with a file attachment
   has_attached_file :screenshot, :styles => {
    :thumb => ['188x126#', :png]
@@ -121,17 +119,6 @@ class Map < ActiveRecord::Base
   	return true
   end
 
-  def save_screenshot
-    # TODO - this will grab a map every single frickin' time a map is touched
-    # we need a system to throttle the amount to 1/hour or something like that
-    # maybe have a flag - last time this map was screenshotted
-    # don't update if it was less than an hour ago
-    # except this has the issue of a user updating map 7x, and it only screenshotting after
-    # the first time. We only want it to screenhsot the 7th time.
-    # We need to store a timestamp somewhere and do processing every hour, I think.
-    GrabMapScreenshotWorker.perform_async(self.id)
-  end
-
   def decode_base64(imgBase64)
     decoded_data = Base64.decode64(imgBase64)
  
diff --git a/app/workers/grab_map_screenshot_worker.rb b/app/workers/grab_map_screenshot_worker.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index b3d97e4f..00000000
--- a/app/workers/grab_map_screenshot_worker.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# app/workers/grab_map_screenshot_worker.rb
-class GrabMapScreenshotWorker
-  include Sidekiq::Worker
-
-  def perform(map_id)
-    imgBase64 = `phantomjs ./script/phantomjs-save-screenshot.js #{map_id} #{Rails.env}`
-	map = Map.find(map_id)
-    map.decode_base64(imgBase64)
-  end
-end