Ed Loach wrote: > Is there anywhere though that z13 Yahoo imagery is of any use?
Sure. It's ok for lakes, woods, built-up areas, that sort of thing. I'm just looking at somewhere near Rhayader and it's pretty useful. > I like Shaun's suggestion of defaulting to z17 and let users zoom > out. So would I, if I too lived somewhere with more people than sheep. The problem with that is when (say) you want to edit a lake somewhere in mid-Wales, you navigate to it using View as per usual, then click "Edit", and that zooms in to somewhere with absolutely no data. At which point you send a message to talk@ saying "where has the data gone I blame Potlatch pls to revert the changeset omgwtfbbq" - I'm not joking - and we all get a headache. From a usability point of view the View and Edit tabs should be equivalent - i.e. wherever you're viewing, clicking 'Edit' preserves the bbox. We currently have a JS alert at z1-z10 saying "zoom in to edit map", and we italicise the tab to show that it's not clickable. (It should really be z1-z12, I'm not sure why it isn't.) This is good. If it were context-sensitive depending on the amount of data in the area, it would be wonderful. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
