On 08/08/2010 19:48, Robert Scott wrote:
On Sunday 08 August 2010, Dave F. wrote:
It's an improvement, but it tries to refresh on every click
By "refresh" do you mean it tries to load the selected match details?
It redraws all the different colour circles on the map (supposedly
searching the database each time) & list specific data on the right for
the circle that was under the double click - pointless if you just want
to zoom in.
You can't accurately check data until about zoom 16 anyway.
On the contrary. I often look at the "recent changes" view fully zoomed out (thus seeing
all changes from the last couple of days), select an entry I find curious and hit the (new)
"Zoom to" button to check it out.
Yeah, but you're looking at it from the perspective of the person who's
programmed it & knows it's every nuance.
Try looking at it from the point of view of the newbies - they'll want
to zoom in to their local town, where they'll understand what they're
looking at before deciphering all the options.
The titles you use don't offer clarity for them. Musical Chairs, as a
prime example, gives no indication of what the program does.
Instead of a simple Help you've got What? & even Algorithm - who, of
those that want to *use* your web page need to know how it was
programmed? If somebody really does, they can email you.
Under What? you give half the information required. Instead of
explaining the differences in colours you just say "It is coloured
according to whether it has a similarly named and placed counterpart in
OSM and how good the agreement is between them." Not specifically
helpful. What does blue represent?
What use is random sample?
How recent is recent status?
Why does it start at a zoom level that includes half of Northern Europe?
This is a half decent utility, to needs some teaks to make it user friendly.
Cheers
Dave F.
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