On 5 Oct 2016, at 22:08, [email protected] wrote: > Don't know if this is related to this topic or not. But recently it seems > like older entries dissappeared from the map in the area where I live. Was > this by design as a solution to reduce the amount of data or is this a bug?
This is indeed a related feature. We changed the map generation back in August [1], so it wouldn't generate any dots in areas, which haven't been stumbled in the last year. On the one hand this cuts down the rendering time, as there are fewer dots. But on the other hand this also gives a better indication of where we actually have current data. If we haven't seen any new data from an area for an entire year, chances are our view of the world is outdated. For a while now dot density represents the recency of when we last got new data for an area, so an area that was just stumbled is highlighted more than an area that has seen its last update six month ago. Before this change we capped this and at least showed a single dot in an area regardless of age, now we allow this to drop to zero. Hanno [1] https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/commit/cb911b12dc7b145173df2c63db3d3fdac0fe033d _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
