[Tilesathome] Maplint Layer

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> I made the change because the discs were full. By not having to render
> an entire grey map where things were correct, it was a major
> improvement.

In the standalone view, the road grid even where correct served as  
orientation, and served me well.

If our discs do not have enough space for a proper, usable Maplint  
layer, then let's kick it altogether. It may use less space as it is  
now, but it is competely useless, so this actually wastes the space  
it occupies, while the previous version could be used for debugging.

> It's also a nice test-case for transparent overlays, which
> OSM should encourage for other purposes IMHO.

Let's please find something else for a 'nice test case'. I really  
want people to use the Maplint layer for debugging, not for  
experimenting, or for nice looks.

> One way to make them clearer is toggle the maplint layer on and
> off by repeated clicking of the checkbox. It is then easy to see the
> differences flashing in the map.

I can't believe you are suggesting that. It was good the way it was  
before, you could easily see all you needed to see! And now you're  
telling me to wildly switch layers to have a chance to see something  
that was in plain view before? Hardly a "major improvement"!

> Alternatively, we could try making
> the transparent areas semi-transparent so that they make the normal  
> map
> more subtle,

Might be an option, but I'm all for scapping transparent altogehter.  
No white-washed background layer will ever be as good as the simple,  
grey-line-for-each-road backdrop that Maplint had before.

> The transparent maplint layer as implemented is only a first stab
> minimal changes to the code to get something that works. There's
> certainly room for improvement both at low and high zooms, feel  
> free to
> request improvements here or in trac, and/or implement them yourself.

I did complain here because I felt it might bec onsidered impolite to  
just revert the changes in SVN but if I can do that without starting  
an edit war, I certainly will.

Bye
Frederik

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