[Merkaartor] Some Feature Requests

[André Reichelt]

Hello, I'm new here and I want to say hello to you. I'm from Germany and 
my english is not that good so please ignore the grammar and misspelling 
as long as it isn't too bad ;). Thank you!

Firstly I would say thank you to all of the coders who worked on 
Merkaartor. I keep an eye on Merkaartor for a few months now and I like 
the project. Yesterday (Ok, the day before, it's 00:23 now) I've 
downloaded the new version and tried it. It's a great software, but I've 
found two or three points, that I don't like on it.

My first point are the shortcuts. Why ctrl+m? I have to stretch my whole 
hand to hit this combination. My advice is to build in a switch to 
change the keyboard-controls as far as possible to the JOSM style. Is 
this possible?

The second thing is the width of the streets. If i want to redraw the 
Yahoo Aerial Photos, I have problems to find the right way, because the 
Autobahn is 15 or 20 pixels width. Here's my advice to build in a small 
button wich allows to scale down the widt of the lines instantly and set 
it back to the original size. It should be like a wireframe mode, but 
not wireframes but only thinner lines.

There's an other point: If you set it to load the Yahoo pictures in the 
background, it needs eternities to load all tiles. If you zoom in or 
out, the background switches to white again and it loads everything new. 
  Would you mind to add a feature wich scales the pictures and overwrite 
it then? A blurred image is even better as no image.

It's a similar problem if you zoom in too strong. If you do this, the 
tiles will be seperated and there are big white clearances between them. 
It would be better, if the tiles will be zoomed.

Thanks for reading and again sorry for this bad english.

Good night,
André

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