{"id":1417,"date":"2011-05-27T17:58:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2018-07-21T17:38:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T15:38:01","slug":"enmap-updates-27-easysimple-layout-dekartenupdates-27-mai-neues-einfaches-layout-esmap-updates-27-easy-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/de\/updates\/enmap-updates-27-easysimple-layout-dekartenupdates-27-mai-neues-einfaches-layout-esmap-updates-27-easy-layout\/","title":{"rendered":"Kartenupdates 27. Mai — neues “einfaches” Layout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donations via bank transfer and forum:<\/h3>\n

Well it took me longer than anticipated, but now it is not only possible to donate and acquire membership with Paypal\/credit card, but also by good old bank transfer. See the details here: https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/support\/membership\/<\/a><\/p>\n

So if you don't have Paypal \/ credit card, or stay away from using it due to ethical\/political decisions (which I do support as I see ebay as an completly bad and capitalistic organisation) you can wire me money too (and thereby cut off ebay comissions, however causing me a bit more handwork, and taking a few days till you get your account data).<\/p>\n

I hope to put up a support forum for members in the next weeks too. I am waiting for a plugin to move from alpha to at least beta stage, that will transfer the user names to phpBB forums. So once this is available, I'll set up a forum based on phpBB software.<\/p>\n

Depending on what you want to report, that will be easier to communicate (as stuff like picture or video embedding will be possible).<\/p>\n

On the outlook for the longer future I will also setup some video tutorials. Not sure yet if I make the available to everyone, or just OpenMTBMap.org members (might decide on a per tutorial basis too).<\/p>\n

BTW: there is a new Basecamp 3.2.0.2 beta version<\/a>. However I have not tested it yet...<\/p>\n

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New Layout<\/h3>\n

Often people, especially first time users complain that the layout of the OpenMTBMap maps is to complicated to understand, therefore I put in a lot of effort to make it easier. This has resulted in the simple Layout.<\/p>\n

For this map update I have introduced a new fifth layout. It's intention is to show more ore less (except mtb specific information and oneway arrows) no more information than standard topographic maps. So additional information like whether a cycleway runs parallel to a road, or mtb:scale:uphill information is not shown. The line width is equal to the classic layout. It is intended for GPS use - especially for hikers that don't need the additional bicycle related information that gets hidden. I hope that Garmin does not create a need to change around a lot of stuff again, in order for the layouts to not take too much time to maintain - therefore before I implemented the new layout, I finished off the changes for the Nüvi series to harmonise what the Nüvi does show, and what it does not show (basically no mtb:scale:uphill and no cycleway=lane\/track\/opposite except if correctly indicated with left\/right -- though not both).<\/p>\n

The new easy layout (I wanted to call it simple, but needed a 4letter word, so it became easy) munges together tracktype and sac_scale information, in order to make room to use the green color for mtb:scale classified ways (and thereby having no blue ways anymore -- only water stays blue).
\n\t I'm actually thinking about if the color choice for tracktype\/sac_scale\/mtb:scale shouldn't be the default for all layouts - as it makes the map easier to understand, and only few information is lost (of course for all other layouts, I would only change the colors, but keep all additional lines for cycleways\/mtb:scale:uphill and so inside).<\/p>\n

It would be nice if you could post comments on how you like the color choice of the simple layout. (for those that have no account, it's a good time to get one, as you get the possiblity to download an exclusive Europemap too, I will not base my decision on other sources as I do value the opinion of those who donated more)<\/p>\n

I did already put some effort to harmonize the layout of difficulties, so that the same pattern independant of color, should more or less always resemble the same difficulty and made a better separation for mtb:scale=0 (taking more factors into account whether the way is really for mtbiking or not).<\/p>\n

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Other changes:<\/h3>\n

On the autorouting<\/strong> side I removed the higher priority for sac_scale=hiking, I have no clue whether this is good or not. Hiking routes are still preferred for autorouting.<\/p>\n

On the rendering<\/strong> side, I did go back to normal mkgmap branch, because I found that the locator branch does not produce a better address index than the normal branch, but on the other hand takes twice as much time for processing the data. I might try out the locator branch ones it evolves in future.<\/p>\n

As noted on the layout section, the decision on what is shown and what is not shown on the Nüvi series, got harmonised.<\/p>\n

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VeloMap:<\/h3>\n

Sorry my work on the VeloMap <\/a>got cut short the last 2 weeks. I hope to build a Europemap for the VeloMap too, and update the homepage (so for people who got a VeloMap membership, to download the OpenMTBMap Europemap too). I'll try to make up on this soon (though the VeloMap is clearly second priority, I do try to keep it to the same level as the OpenMTBMap so don't despair if the VeloMaps is what interests you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donations via bank transfer and forum: <\/p>\n

Well it took me longer than anticipated, but now it is not only possible to donate and acquire membership with Paypal\/credit card, but also by good old bank transfer. See the details here: https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/support\/membership\/<\/p>\n

So if you don't have Paypal \/ credit card, or stay away from using it due to ethical\/political decisions (which I do support as I see ebay as an completly bad and capitalistic organisation) you can wire me money too (and thereby cut off ebay comissions, however causing me a bit more handwork, and taking a few days till you get your account data).<\/p>\n

I hope to put up a support forum for members in the next weeks too. I am waiting for a plugin to move from alpha to at least beta stage, that will transfer the user names to phpBB forums. So once this is available, I'll set up a forum based on phpBB software.<\/p>\n

Depending on what you want to report, that will be easier to communicate (as stuff like picture or video embedding will be possible).<\/p>\n

On the outlook for the longer future I will also setup some video tutorials. Not sure yet if I make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmtbmap.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}