[OSM-talk] New technology ...

[Alex Barth]

> With the arrival of a 'new' set of controls, and the discussion on front
page, I feel that it IS necessary to open this discussion a little wider.
Having been using the new interface on mobile devices I find it much less
usable than the older set-up. But that is not to say that the old one was
actually usable!

A dry and very specific review of what problems on mobile in particular you
encounter with the new map UI would be useful.

The new map UI works actually pretty nicely on my iPhone, but I haven't
done extensive testing.



On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Tom MacWright wrote:
>
>>
>> 52 messages in the 'Upgraded map controls' thread, 13 in this one, 12 in
>> the one
>> split off of this one, 39 comments on the pull request. Around 116
>> messages in
>> total, though that's only the English count and I'm sure that there's
>> something
>> on talk-de.
>>
>
> Tom will you PLEASE stop posting reams of quotes that are unrelated to
> your comments. THAT is creating a very fragmented discussion. I can't even
> see how you've included my text in Martin's reply! He hadn't!
>
> It would be nice to get a better handle on the user land view of things,
> and many people are probably happy, but others will probably simply migrate
> to the other viewers anyway and we have no idea what the real situation is.
> Certainly switching between the current map and 'yours' for routing now
> grates ... that is the reason about my comments on the 'whole' picture ...
> I HAD been using the slippy map for location pages and then switching to a
> router for directions - now the two are so different that I need to
> rethink! That is the problem that this latest change has brought about, and
> I was unaware it was about to happen :(
>
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