[Tilesathome] Maplint Layer

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:27:10AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> >>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?
> 
> http://informationfreeway.org/? 
> lat=49.00331316437761&lon=8.42033203851261&zoom=12&layers=B000T00
> 
> This map is really useless. If I look really hard I might find some  
> places to zoom in for a better look, but I'll never ever be able to  
> say there are no more errors because they are so easy to overlook.

I don't have much problems with picking out the errors here. Granted,
some of the colors might be changed to something that stands out even
more, or perhaps at these high zoomlevels some errors could be shown a
bit larger. Especially those things that are now yellow should perhaps
get another color, that is a bit too faint.

What about having a outline in signal-orange for all errors? That
should really make it noticeable.

> (Granted, Karlsruhe is a very "clean" area in Maplint terms; if I did  
> the same for other places at the same zoom level, there would  
> probably be so much red that you couldn't count or identify anything  
> on this level anyway. But the state the Karlsruhe area is in is  
> something we're aspiring to have everywhere I guess.)

Yes, and when we approach it, perhaps for mapper-oriented slippy-maps
maplint might even be on by default, helping people to quickly realize
errors. This is not possible today, as you say most places are filled
with maplint errors and warnings, but perhaps one day we get there :)

I actually think Karlsruhe is a good example of why transparent
maplint is a good thing as the map looks good even though maplint is
turned on.

-- 
Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
bob at cakebox.net
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