Re: [DUG] TUMONZ SDK beta program - general GUI design

[Phil Middlemiss]

Thanks for the feedback Guy. You have a point about search, and a redesign of the page the mapplet sits on (and moving it to it's own domain) has been on the to do list for a little while now in order to get rid of the headings that you have to click on to show search etc. I doubt if we will change drag to pan now that it's up there and been running for a while, but I can always look at finding better ways to give the user feedback that holding shift causes the drag to pan. Cheers, Phil. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have access to a bigger user base than me (base of one) so not wanting to argue with you but you are after feedback so here goes. As searches have become more powerful in recent years so I would think that the most frequent way of locating a location would be a text search. Google maps, and to a lesser extent google earth are built around this type of interface with a text search box in a prominent place in the interface. Probably not surprising given Google's main business. Regardless of what your looking for, even if it's a nameless block of land you are going to locate it by it's nearest feature. I would do that by searching for the feature, river, hut, road or whatever then pan to what I am looking for. I find that when I try and find something visually (normally in google earth where the search feature doesn't seam to locate NZ landmarks for me for some strange reason) I am always sitting there scratching my head while zoomed out trying to work out if I am looking at the Waimak, Selwyn or whatever and then finding my house from there. My 2c Guy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Phil Scadden Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 4:44 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] TUMONZ SDK beta program - general GUI design For sure, skin a cat, many ways etc etc. FYI my typical usage of a mapping program (windows based, I haven't used Tumonz live other than to try it out) it to do a text search for a location, click on that location so that the map will bring me to that location hopefully at a reasonable zoom level. Then pan around that location. I never find a location by locating it on a big scale then zooming into it so for me zoom is a very rarely used feature. Hmm, but for others its huge. Want to work in a particular area. It probably doesn't have a name, so locate in map of nz by marque box, and then probably another iteration to get area right as recognisable features come in by zooming in. Now, lets say want to locate land owner so can contact them. Chances are I am zooming in and out all the time to get workable information where landowner is on small blocks. Ditto when finding things like schools or petrol stations. ---------------------------------------------------------- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@ns3.123.co.nz http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorised disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email from your system. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@ns3.123.co.nz http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi

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