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On 08/08/2010 19:48, Robert Scott wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sunday 08 August 2010, Dave F. wrote:
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<pre wrap="">It's an improvement, but it tries to refresh on every click
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By "refresh" do you mean it tries to load the selected match details?
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It redraws all the different colour circles on the map (supposedly
searching the database each time) & list specific data on the
right for the circle that was under the double click - pointless if
you just want to zoom in.<br>
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<pre wrap="">You can't accurately check data until about zoom 16 anyway.
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On the contrary. I often look at the "recent changes" view fully zoomed out (thus seeing all changes from the last couple of days), select an entry I find curious and hit the (new) "Zoom to" button to check it out.
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Yeah, but you're looking at it from the perspective of the person
who's programmed it & knows it's every nuance.<br>
Try looking at it from the point of view of the newbies - they'll
want to zoom in to their local town, where they'll understand what
they're looking at before deciphering all the options.<br>
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The titles you use don't offer clarity for them. Musical Chairs, as
a prime example, gives no indication of what the program does.<br>
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Instead of a simple Help you've got What? & even Algorithm -
who, of those that want to *use* your web page need to know how it
was programmed? If somebody really does, they can email you.<br>
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Under What? you give half the information required. Instead of
explaining the differences in colours you just say "It is coloured
according to whether it has a similarly named and placed counterpart
in <acronym title="OpenStreetMap">OSM</acronym> and how good the
agreement is between them." Not specifically helpful. What does blue
represent?<br>
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What use is random sample?<br>
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How recent is recent status?<br>
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Why does it start at a zoom level that includes half of Northern
Europe?<br>
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This is a half decent utility, to needs some teaks to make it user
friendly.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Dave F.<br>
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