[Potlatch-dev] More UX testing

[Shaun McDonald]

On 3 Mar 2012, at 18:05, Andy Allan wrote:

> On 3 March 2012 04:04, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just to double check: they know it’s already there as an area, they
>> just want to see an icon on top of it as well? What kinds of areas?
>> Ones without (rendered) names?
> 
> No, often they don't realise. For example, when there's a supermarket
> tagged as an area, they think the supermarket isn't mapped, and try
> adding an icon for it. The turquoise building outline (or whatever)
> doesn't lead them to think that it has been mapped.

i can confirm this was happening yesterday at the UCL mapping party for the students.


> 
>>> People get mightily confused when the icons on the map don’t match the icons on the sidebar. Maybe we need to rethink how the sidebar icons appear.
>> 
>> Examples? It would be pretty easy to fix some of these.
> 
> Well, I think hairdressers was one. But the bigger point is that if
> the map style has different icons (e.g. the opencyclemap style) then
> switching map styles doesn't update the sidebar. The icons displayed
> are more of a "map style" consideration than a "map features"
> consideration, to a certain extent, so maybe the map style should
> define the icon, and the sidebar pick them up from there. Dropping an
> icon and having a different one appear isn't great.
> 
> On the other hand, I frequently get asked why the icons in potlatch2
> don't match the icons on the main map layer precisely - which is
> something that's unsolvable in many cases.

+1 to having the same icons on the map and map features.

What about map styles that don't show something that is in the map features or vice versa?

Shaun