[Talk-transit] NOVAM is back

[Chris Hill]

Christoph Böhme wrote:
> Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> schrieb:
>
>   
>> On 1 Nov 2009, at 17:58, Chris Hill wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Christoph Böhme wrote:
>>>       
>>>> And another update of NOVAM:
>>>>
>>>> - Internet Explorer 8 should now work (make sure it is not in
>>>>  compatibility mode). It is quite slow though compared to the other
>>>>  browsers.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I'll try this out later.
>>>       
>>>> - The naptan:Bearing tag is used to show an arrow on the bus stop  
>>>> icons
>>>>  indicating the direction of busses stopping at a stop.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Nice :-)
>>>       
>> Yeah, I think TFL need to learn the 8 point compass, as it would
>> make around me look a lot better.
>> http://mappa-mercia.org/novam/?scheme=hull&zoom=16&lat=51.40715&lon=-0.06089&layers=BT
>>
>> Most of the roads there seem to chop and change between north/south  
>> and east/west instead of using ne/sw sw/se etc. which would be more  
>> appropriate in my opinion.
>>
>>     
>>>> - Added a stylesheet for printing. It should work in Firefox.
>>>> Opera and
>>>>  IE do not display the vector overlay on the printout :(
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Prints a blank page on FF 3.0.15 (actually only prints page
>>> headers).
>>>       
>
> Perhaps I should have said: "it works on Firefox 3.5.2". Anyway, I
> changed the stylesheet and it works now on FF 3.0.11 for me. I reckon
> that it should work on 3.0.15 as well. 
>
> I noticed that there was sometimes some displacement between bus stops
> and map. This goes away if you change from landscape to portrait format
> and back again.
>  

It printed fine in FF 3.1.15 now, thanks.

Cheers, Chris