[Merkaartor] Some Feature Requests

[bvh]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:50:14AM +0200, André Reichelt wrote:
> 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  

I speak for everyone when I say thank you for your encouragment.

> 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?

What does JOSM use for this particular shortcut. To be honest I did some
mapping myself yesterday and I hated ctrl-m just as much as you. Before
it was just 'm' but no-modifier shortcuts are a no-no if I recall
correctly.

> 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.

Can't agree more. See my previous mail. I _swear_ I sent that one before
reading yours. I will definitly get to it.

> 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.

I think Chris is better placed to comment on this. However due to legal
reasons there are some limits on what we can do with Yahoo data in terms
of caching and manipulating it.

> Thanks for reading and again sorry for this bad english.

No need to apologize. There are no native English speakers here and if
there are I am sure your English is better than their German.

cu bart