After many weeks of trial and error – and trying out a lot of changes both on desktop and in real life hiking and mtbiking – finally the rework of the map layout is finished. I have made sure to make the map layouts much easier to comprehend, more harmonic to look at – and more congruent in consistency of the colors.
So e.g. before while mtb trails were green, mtb routes were brown. At 500m zoom scale (Basecamp, normal detail) the map had become too cluttered in Europe’s densely populated areas. For some polygons there were some problems that they overlapped other areas (e.g. parks) and in general some areas just stuck out way too much even though their importance to hiking or mtbiking was not given (sport fields). I had differentiated building colors too much – and had different shades of grey for government buildings, museums and so on vs normal buildings. While this gave a lot of information – it is not actually needed and make the map a bit harder to read.
I have now reworked all layouts to focus on the essential things – while still providing the awesome level of detail only given […]
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