[Design] Homepage - map layers

[Pierre GIRAUD]

There's a control I wrote a while ago to do that in OpenLayers. [1]
Unfortunately, it's not in the trunk.

[1] http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/camptocamp/maptypepanel/openlayers/examples/mapTypePanel.html
or http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/camptocamp/maptypepanel/openlayers/examples/menu-button.html

Pierre

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Michal Migurski <mike at stamen.com> wrote:
> I think making the map styles more obvious is a great idea. The OL dropdown is non-obvious. What about imitating old-style GMaps and making them buttons? See top-right corner of http://www.getlatlon.com/
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> -mike.
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> On Oct 27, 2011, at 5:15 AM, Gregory wrote:
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>> One of the things that bugs me most about the homepage, newcomers don't realise there are other map styles.
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>> I had an idea that I think could count as a small change and not need to the whole OSMF membership to ratify it.
>> You see that 'Edit' tab now has a mouse-over dropdown. Can we copy that to the 'View' tab with options: Mapnik style, OpenCycleMap style, etc...
>>
>> It could work while we only have a few layers anyway.
>> What do others think?
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>> Gregory
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