[josm-dev] Direction arrows

[Andy Robinson]

Matthias Julius wrote:
>Sent: 16 October 2007 1:44 PM
>To: josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [josm-dev] Direction arrows
>
>"Lauri Hahne" <lauri.hahne at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I don't think it would work. If you insert one arrow per way, the must
>> be tons of cases where the direction isn't evident. In addition, if
>> you show an arrow, lets say, once every 3 "segments" it will likely
>> look very hideous and broken to user when there appears to be no logic
>> where the arrows are even though there really is.
>
>On ways with a high node density it doesn't look pretty neither.
>
>There is another idea: Only display arrows on segments that have at
>least a certain length on screen (20 px maybe).
>
>Matthias
>


If the density of arrows is an issue why not have them turn off when zoomed
out?

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk