imagico left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6618)
> What I’m unclear about is whether the current main map (or the dashboard map
> prior to #6504) steers clear of the concern you’ve raised.
Yes, i have never seen - or have heard others report - similar issues with the
main map about that. With the zoom animation i am personally undecided if i
prefer with or without (if you want to compare for yourself - a non-animated
zoom can, for example be found on [bbbike map
compare](https://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?lon=7.874081&lat=50.549012&zoom=6&num=1&mt0=mapnik))
How this feels depends a bit on animation speed vs. tile loading bandwidth.
But the point can definitely be made that the animation can make zooming more
intuitive.
For the situation of viewing low resolution tiles on a high resolution (small
pixel size) display the OSM-Carto guidelines do not provide a definitive
suggestion. Bullet points 3 and 4 cannot be met simultaneously in that case.
That is a deliberate choice - we have no suggestion in that case (other than to
use higher resolution tiles obviously). I personally like having the choice
between native display or upscaling to design scale - and on Linux at least you
can configure that in the desktop settings.
> Even if we only snap zoom levels with the Standard layer, we would be trading
> off the user experience. For better or worse, computer users these days are
> accustomed to the interface tracking their gestures continuously. They will
> be jarred by any discrete transition, no matter the cause.
My experience with people reading interactive maps is actually the opposite. A
limited set of discrete scales can make maps much more accessible and the
inability to easily reproduce a previous viewing situation precisely in scale
can be extremely irritating. And of course cartography is inherently discrete
anyway - attempts to continuously transit between showing something and not
showing something are rarely working out well. But that is a discussion on map
design and that is definitely not something for this issue tracker.
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