[Potlatch-dev] More UX testing

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Sun Mar 4 07:53:01 GMT 2012


On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

So, areas should show the icon on the centroid, next to the text (if any)?

> 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.

Just looking at the default style and default map_features, the POI
icons line up pretty well between the map and map_features. There are
a few with no map icon (eg bookshop), but most are the same (including
hairdressers). The only one that is actually a different icon is the
various place=* features.

Other styles like the cycle map one don't seem to have many POI icons
defined anyway, so the point seems moot?

Steve



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