On Friday, November 11, 2016 at 7:32:54 PM UTC, Bart Eisenberg wrote: > > I much appreciate that the developers have produced a Topo view: it is the > clearest rendering of topo lines I've seen on Osmand. Unfortunately, the > paths are often difficult to see. >
I experimented a lot with different ways of highlighting walking routes in "Touring View." Where I live, you're as likely to be strolling on a track, a footway, a path, a bridleway or maybe even a cycleway (each of which is tagged differently in the OSM data, but paths vs. footways seems to be largely a matter of local convention). These have to stand out against any background shading and be distinguishable from contour lines, roads and boundaries across all the relevant zoom scales. Not easy! I concluded that the way Touring View colour-codes those route types was good at high zoom levels. But at low zoom levels the routes disappear entirely, and I found that the best way of making them stand out unambiguously was to put them all in bold black (only in pedestrian mode!). It's not subtle, but good for this specific purpose. You can try the same trick with the new Topo renderer (just put depends="Topo" instead of depends="Touring..." in the first line of the file from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/osmand/mC6e37AHSGU) but I prefer Touring View - at high zoom levels the colour coding of the different walking route types helps disambiguate them from other features. You wouldn't want to extend my "bold back" style all the way to high zoom levels because it would obscure details, but the Topo style makes routes look very like contour lines in this situation. The fundamental issue is that you can't highlight everything at once, and what you want highlighted at different zoom levels depends on what you're trying to achieve. This is fascinating stuff, because OSM + OsmAnd + Contours is a wonderful thing for walking! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
