Overwork of Map Layouts and other News – June 2022

Hi Everyone – wishing you all a good outdoor/MTB season this summer!

 

To make your biking and outdoor activities even better – I invested a lot of time – partly together with a graphics designer – to improve the layout of the maps regarding to making them nicer to look at. Previously I had tried to design all elements so that they are easiest to distinguish – that however caused the some not so important things – like the differentiation between industrial or residential quarters to stick out too much – while for most people the main importance is if you are in the nature or in a build up area. It’s still easy to distinguish between shopping, industrial or residential quarters – but the different places don’t pop out of the screen anymore – leaving better contrast to streets and trails – so things that really matter. I also made buildings much more similar – I think the old differentiation between simple buildings and those with touristic or public usage was not as important as to make them a darker grey. Landfills are now moved to show only at very high detail – they showed too early.

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June 3rd, 2022 | 16 comments

Spring 2022 – Updates for OpenMTBMap and VeloMap over the last months

Since 6 months I have not written an update over what changed for OpenMTBMaps and VeloMaps – so here we go. Compared to the last changes the updates were much more subtle to notice – and that’s because most of it has been bugfixes on rather rarely happening problems or just updates to OSM keys/values changing.

 

Visually there have been two main changes – most recently – labels for alpine huts are now again (some Basecamp/GPS device updates changed this) – visual earlier, also for some peaks the labels now show a bit earlier – peaks and alpine huts are still the most important features for orientation in mountainous areas.:

 

I reworked the naming of hiking, mtb, or cycling routes – now the most important names go first but more route names won’t be dropped if a way is part of two cycle routes for example as here – this was actually really hard to get done nicely by priority – so here the Internation Cycle Netwrok MV – Munich to Venice is first in name, followed by the National Cycle network R3 Innradweg – section Tiroler Unterland. I tried to remove tagging errors/pecularities like the […]

April 26th, 2022 | Leave a comment
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