[OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

[Yohan Boniface]

Humm...
Just to be clear: I'm not involved in anyway in osm.org redesign.
I've given this tip because it seems to me that the topic was about 
keeping or not the +/- buttons, and imho it's a useful tip for people 
who, like me, doesn't use a mouse.

Yohan

On 07/21/2013 10:47 PM, Maarten Deen wrote:
> On 2013-07-21 22:06, Yohan Boniface wrote:
>> On 07/21/2013 09:49 PM, Maarten Deen wrote:
>> IMHO at the moment they have become superfluous. There is no way anymore
>> to zoom in or out more than one step at a time by using on-map controls
>> as there was with the old slider. So I'm using the mouse now to zoom in
>> or out.
>>
>> Maybe not everybody knows this: in Leaflet maps, if you press Shift
>> while clicking on +/- buttons, you zoom/unzoom with a factor 3. And so
>> (as we are using Leaflet) it is the case on osm.org.
>
> So it's what Frederik says, but it goes further. Not only does noone get
> informed, when there are changes noone (except the developers and maybe
> the happy few that get told) know how to use the new interface.
>
> That's the second thing I had to find out by first complaining that "it
> doesn't work".
> And that's not a good thing. I find it out here. How does someone who
> only uses the map find out?
>
> Maarten
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk