On Wednesday, 31 August 2011 at 10:17 AM, John Hudson wrote: > I’m updating walkthrough 1 to reflect the changes from the palette branch. > > >
yay! > Jody and anyone else interested rate the sexiness of the image – 0 being not > so sexy and 10 being super sexy. This will be used throughout the walkthrough. +9 natural earth data set is sexy; yeah for a more world wide experience. Near as we can tell the world is the only place sex happens, sexy is natural. While data is not very sexy; the dataset has been assembled by artists who are creative and sexy (we will consider cartographers as artists here). There fore natural earth must be sexy. +9 italian names are sexy! Arezzo, L'Aquila, etc.... I am not sure this is always true but works for the image it is great. Other italian names are suspect Andrea is not an especially sexy name (you can see why he changed to moovida); Silvia is a pretty sexy name so it is a bit of a hit or miss. +8 The colours are nice for the polygons; I would outline in black at 70% opacity to give them a bit of "pop". +6 Fonts The halo + bold is a bit much; in general we don't use Halo for performance reasons (as speed is sexy). Could we use the black+70% opacity trick to try and tone it down a bit? +6 Location; while Itally is very sexy (see Names discussion above); it would be nice to zoom out a bit and illustrate that this is more of an international project +6 busy = can we filter the cities down a bit (use the Syle Builder Filter settings to reduce the number of cities shown) > I have Natural Earth 2 with shaders and oceans and some vector layers themed > for city names and country populations. > > > > nice. > If you have some suggestions on data sets, send them through! We should stick to the sample dataset for now; as this is just the tutorial. We should however consider that whatever the "main" screen snap its in the walkthrough gets picked up and becomes the face of uDig (we can see this with the last screen snap I made for uDig 1.2 being used all over the web now). Jody
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