[Tilesathome] Maplint Layer

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:55:31AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>    sorry for the harsh words, but am I the only one who finds the 
> transparent-overlay Maplint layer absolutely useless?

Apparently not according to other posts here recently, but I think
it's great as areas without too many errors are easier to
navigate. Also at high zoom levels it's easier to know exactly where
something is when the full map is displayed rather than just a few
grey lines.

> Working with an area that is halfway populated is now impossible; you 
> can only see Maplint messages on zoom levels 15 and above because they 
> simply drown in the colours used for the base map.

What do you mean with halfway populated? And whan is it you find to
drown in the base map? I find every maplint color to contrast quite
starkly against the normal map.

I think we might want to look at how things are displayed, especially
the width of the maplint lines. Perhaps maplint could try to mainly
add borders around ways with the inside being transparent?

> The previous version where you had only the maplint layer with a grey 
> road grid was much better IMHO. In my eyes, if we stick with what we've 
> got now, we could as well just remove the Maplint layer altogether. Can 
> anybody give me an example where the current version is worth having?

I have yet to see an areas where I don't like it, could you give me an
example?

-- 
Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
bob at cakebox.net
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 2220 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tilesathome/attachments/20070612/cc45b1ad/attachment.bin>