Map Updates 5. November 2010

I continued to work on the redesign. I made quite a few POI labels smaller and (which was another 10 hours of work…) reworked the cycleway=* layout even more to make it easier to comprehend. Also upon wishes made the drinking water symbol a bit bigger again, and readded footroutes (though only resolution=24). Foot and hikingroutes are now in a light yellow – to be easier distinguashable.

Quite a lot of small other fixes. Also mkgmap got again better multipolygonsupport – should be on par if not better than Mapnik now….

Next week will probably see a correction of flooded tiles due to wanmils go at it for mkgmap.jar

Oh and not to forget. I changed the smoothing filter to be only active from resolution 21 onwards, instead of 22 like before. Please tell me if the map becomes too slow in resolution 22 for you or if it is no big difference (equals mapsource zoom 300-700m on normal detail). It is much nicer to look at on the other hand (please drop a comment below what you prefer – and what GPS you are using…)

November 4th, 2010 | 9 comments

Map Updates 29.10.2010 and new map layout

As last weekend and Tuesday's national holiday coupled with bad weather gave me some time to hack, I worked many many hours on improving the map layout to make it more harmonic. Especially when zoomed far out, the map is now much better to grasp. For example for streeets with a cycleway=opposite or cycleway=opposite_lane or bicycle:oneway=no instead of the symbols for that, there is now a different oneway arrow – so it's less visual detail while carrying (nearly) the same amount of information.

I also kicked out quite a few POI because cities got too crowded. I kicked out all POI that in my eyes are neither needed for orientation nor carry much value for a tourist. This means for example no more trafficlights displayed in the map – as nice as they are, they are not needed for orientation but clutter up the map (their use for very acribic tripplanning-optimization is too limited I think).

Also I exchanged the colors for mtb and cycleroutes. The reason for this is, that in cities the blue of the cycleroutes is too disturbing, but also in grey/black the routes should still be noticeable. Outside of cities (where mtb routes usually are) […]

October 29th, 2010 | 23 comments
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