[OSM-talk] Oh look, a scale bar. But...

[Tom Hughes]

In message <b5f0f61d0804161037m6eeaa2edu5da05b22be47b0b8 at mail.gmail.com>
          "Dermot McNally" <dermotm at gmail.com> wrote:

> From what I can tell based on a quick look at the Openlayers
> documentation, not only does it support single unit scale bars, that's
> actually the default.

It's certainly not the default. I have done nothing other than add
a default constructed scale control to the map.

>                        For the slippy map, there seem to be a few
> low-impact ways that we could improve the presentation:
> 
> * Make unit preference a profile element for logged-in users (in fact,
> "dual" could be considered an option).
> 
> * For non-logged-in users, we could either continue to show a dual
> scale _or_ there could be a unit-switching option on screen. We could
> even toss users a cookie to help recall that preference if that
> doesn't seem too evil.

Patches welcome.

Tom

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