[OSM-dev] [GSoC] Improvements to Vespucci

[Shaun McDonald]

On 16 Aug 2012, at 11:56, "Marcus Wolschon" <Marcus at Wolschon.biz> wrote:

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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Shaun McDonald [mailto:shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk] 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. August 2012 12:50
> An: Marcus Wolschon
> Cc: osmeditor4android at googlegroups.com; dev at openstreetmap.org
> Betreff: Re: [OSM-dev] [GSoC] Improvements to Vespucci
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> On 16 Aug 2012, at 08:47, Derick Rethans <osm at derickrethans.nl> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Marcus Wolschon wrote:
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>>> I'd like to hear everyones opinion on this.
>>> What do you think?
>> 
>> I think it's annoying to have to install two packages.
> 
>> +1 Would it be possible to get a different set of icons that don't have
> the licensing issue? 
> 
> We could draw some icons ourself after GSoC.
> 
> 
>> Here's a few things from my initial testing.
> 
>> On the initial load area screen, it would be nicer to state how recent the
> last known location is. Maybe even the distance between that GPS location
> and the current network location?
>> Is it possible to configure other Map backgrounds beyond the ones that are
> currently defined?
>> I think the history command could be better named "More info".
>> When I zoom in really far the width of the ways gets too wide, thus makes
> it more difficult to select things in a very detailed area. Could the lines
> and points be thinner when zoomed in very far?
> 
> Could you open some feature-request tickets?

I've added them, however I can only at them as bugs, there's no way to be able to mark them as enhancements. (Probably a project permissions issue).

> We can think about these and then see if someone is willing to implement
> them later.
> I'm not sure about the "more info" but the others sound like good features
> to have.

I'm being pedantic about the page it's going, as the page it currently goes to is only the current version.

> Lets try to keep the codebase stable for the few days until the GSoC
> deadline in a few days.


:-) It's great to seem some good progress from the GSoC project. I can't wait for it to appear in the app store.

Shaun