<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello, I'm new here and I want to say hello to you. I'm from Germany and my english is not that good so please ignore the grammar and misspelling as long as it isn't too bad ;). Thank you!<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Welcome! <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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My first point are the shortcuts. Why ctrl+m? I have to stretch my whole hand to hit this combination. My advice is to build in a switch to change the keyboard-controls as far as possible to the JOSM style. Is this possible?</blockquote>
<div><br>I agree it's more mnemonic than ergonomic. There will probably be a shortcut editor in the future. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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The second thing is the width of the streets. If i want to redraw the Yahoo Aerial Photos, I have problems to find the right way, because the Autobahn is 15 or 20 pixels width. Here's my advice to build in a small button wich allows to scale down the widt of the lines instantly and set it back to the original size. It should be like a wireframe mode, but not wireframes but only thinner lines.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Well, for a first, all the painting is done thru editable styles, so you can design whatever style with whatever road width you want thru a nice gui in "Tool-Style-Edit". The built-in "Classic" style (in preferences) might better suit your need.<br>
<br>Here is a nice style that will give you plain wireframe:<br><br><mapStyle><br></mapStyle><br><br>Put those 2 lines in a .mas file, select it as the custom style in the preferences and here you go :-)<br><br>
If you don't feel like fiddling with styles, there is also the opacity option ("right-click on a layer-opacity") wich can make the road as transparent as you wish (the "low" and "high" level of transaprency are customizable in the preferences).<br>
<br>I don't think we need additionals +/- buttons, but if there is popular demand, why not...<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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There's an other point: If you set it to load the Yahoo pictures in the background, it needs eternities to load all tiles. If you zoom in or out, the background switches to white again and it loads everything new. Would you mind to add a feature wich scales the pictures and overwrite it then? A blurred image is even better as no image.</blockquote>
<div><br>Well, it takes eternities because we have to do crazy things (i.e. having to use a full browser (webkit) to respect Yahoo! terms of use of only using their javascript API to access tiles. Furtherrmore, we are not allowed to cache the tiles for reuse.<br>
If you select TMS-Mapnick as a background imagery, you will have an idea of what the speed would be without the legal requirements.<br>The reload happens when you zoom to a new Yahoo! zoom level, whether up or down. I could spend time programming a nice and totally without value blurred zoom image during loading but, well, ... <br>
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It's a similar problem if you zoom in too strong. If you do this, the tiles will be seperated and there are big white clearances between them. It would be better, if the tiles will be zoomed.</blockquote><div><br>This is due to the fact that Yahoo! has different max zoom depending on region, and there is no way (that I know) to predict it. The artifact you describe happens precisely when we overzoom on a specific region.<br>
Once again, I could polish the fact some way or another but, well, ... <br></div></div><br>I think the biggest issue we have now vs. newcomers is the lack of a proper documentation showing all the possibilities... but we are slowly working on that (see <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Merkaartor_doc_0.12">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Merkaartor_doc_0.12</a>)<br>
<br>- Chris -<br></div>