[OSM-talk] Build your own osm.org (was Re: New technology ...)

[Lester Caine]

Yohan Boniface wrote:
> On 07/22/2013 04:37 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
>> I've just had a 'complaint' from a web hosting customer who has spotted
>> the 'new' style and was confused as he was used to simply clicking on
>> the scale bar for a quick zoom in. Again holding 'shift' down does not
>> work on his tablet
>
> But "pinch" should, which is very convenient on touch based devices.

As long as you don't need to 'pinch' to scale the area that is waiting for you 
to type the from location to get directions ... there is a whole raft of 
complications which need to be handled. When one is USED to simply hitting a 
spot on a screen to do something, when that disappears it IS confusing, and 
finding 'help' is even more difficult? So I get a phone call ...

People are asking why I find the smartphone difficult to use with the new style. 
First I'm using Dolphin on an S4. Switching to 'full screen' ( it's another app 
you have to download and I have now !) then I get all of the buttons on right, 
but the tabs along the top are so small as to be difficult to read. The scale is 
covered by dolphins fancy extra functions button. Trying to navigate around with 
'pinch' and 'slide' keeps bringing down the tab bar which seems to have a higher 
priority than the map move. In any case the bulk of the text on the screen is 
unreadable and I would prefer to have 'screen zoom' rather than 'map zoom' with 
map zoom just being on buttons.

Moving the the 10" tablet, things are a lot better, and I would probably be 
better of using that in the car for navigation. I need varifocal glasses so the 
small fonts used on the S4 are generally a problem, and I've wasted a lot of 
time trying to make things better. I had the old N900 working well even with 
it's smaller screen, but then the tomtom was in car screen, and something that 
will not work with the S4 :(

I think there are a number of problems with Locus as an interface between the 
map and routing, and I would not recommend it, so I need to try the 
alternatives. OSMAnd has been suggested, but I need to learn how to get it to 
use my own maps rather than having to pay them for maps. Any other suggestions 
for an alternative that works well in the UK would be appreciated. Trawling 
through wiki produces a lot of dead ends which if I did have more time I would 
fix :(

( and I'd forgotten that the N900 was single touch Yohan - good point! )

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