On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 23:37, Boris Cornet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Chris!
>
> Today (Thursday, December 10, 2009) at 12:47 you chipped in:
> >>> Done and commited.
> >> great!
> >>> Tell me if you think it is better.
> >> If I only could! Can you please prepare a windows binary?
> Will you? Or maybe someone could give me instructions on how to
> compile on windows, but please consider that I have no experience in
> compiling C++
>

I will. But I moved to Mingw4 and so have to recompile the dependencies on
Windows first...

>
> > If you go to View-Projection in 0.13, you just have 'background" and
> "mercator" right?
> > (I do not remember if 0.13 had the new projection code or not... )
> Right!
>
> > If so, that explain your complain:
> > with the "background projection", the zoom level were locked on the
> > various zoom level of the background imagery.
> > In this case, the projection was actually driven by the imagery, which
> was, IMHO, ugly.
> I don't object to free zoom levels but I'd prefer a method to lock
> zoom to the levels of the background images. Maybe the plus and minus
> keys could act as 'zoom to next level given by the background', whereas
> zoom to rectangle could act as free zoom?
>

I'll see what I can do. Due to the new architecture, this probably won't be
trivial, though...

>
> Talking of yahoo imagery: Many areas are not covered by hires images.
> If I zoom too close, I'll see the white image saying: zoom out! I'd
> prefer to zoom into the last available picture, even if I am going to
> dive into the pixels.
> If you can figure a way to detect the white images (Potlach does!),
> you could lock the image zoom level at the last supported level.
> Otherwise you could also introduce an manual option to 'freeze' the
> image zooming at the current level.
>

I wonder how Potlach does it? The way the adapter works, it asks the Yahoo
api for the best picture for a given BBOX. Apparently, even Yahoo do not
know where pictures at a given zoom level are available...

- Chris -
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