[josm-dev] Multipolygon stuff finished

[Shaun McDonald]

The rotated one look a lot better than the normal one. This is because  
it is far simpler to see the traffic flows.

Shaun

On 3 Jan 2009, at 11:27, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Dirk Stöcker schrieb:
>> The display of turn restrictions on the map will not be something  
>> which is really understandable and I see no way yet to display that  
>> better.
>
> See the attached mockups :-)
>> What would probably be possible is a display of a part of the map  
>> in a turn-restriction editor. There you can rotate the streets  
>> accordingly and also place the signs as required.
>
> Hmmm, I'm pretty sure that rotating the streets other than in the  
> mappaint display will be *very* confusing.
>> BTW: What helped me already was to see the elements selected when  
>> selecting the relation.
>
> Yes, showing the selection also helped me a lot when I started to  
> add my first relations.
>
>
> I've just did two mockup pictures showing how a turn restriction  
> display could look like - being it as a seperate editor or inside  
> mappaint.
>
> While the mockup with the signs rotated to the drivers viewpoint is  
> somewhat better to understand, even the (probably much simpler to  
> implement) "all icons with the same rotation" display would already  
> help a lot IMHO.
>
> I guess one important reason why a lot of people not mapping turn  
> restrictions is that most mappers are simply not aware of them at  
> all or don't know an example how to do it (at least that was the  
> case for myself in the past). Well, even after I've added some turn  
> restrictions, I felt unsure if this was the right way of doing it -  
> as I got no visual feedback.
>
> Therefore I think making turn restrictions more visual in mappaint  
> is important for wider use. Of course, that doesn't mean there's no  
> room to improve the editing of turn restrictions ;-)
>
> Regards, ULFL
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