[OSM-talk] GPX tracing from New Popular Edition Maps

Nick Burch openstreetmap at gagravarr.org
Fri Oct 27 11:13:17 BST 2006


On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Andy Robinson wrote:
> The only comment I'd make is that if you are doing a lot of tracing you 
> can easily get lost as to what was the last point you clicked (if you 
> step away for a moment especially). Most of the gpx/track tracers I have 
> used link the points with a line so that you can see your route.

I'm not a fan of automatically drawing lines between points. It gets messy 
and unhelpful if you double back, do several routes on the same page etc.

> If lines are a problem then colouring the last point entered differently 
> might work as a partway fix.

This one I do like :)  So, I've changed it so that the most recent point 
is in orange, with all the other points in yellow. Does it behave as you'd 
expect?

Nick




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