[josm-dev] Major rework of the presets menu layout
Hi! I've just done a major rework of the presets menu layout (SVN 3460). Hope you'll find it useful. The trigger for this work was a talk with a local mapper, who wasn't even aware that a preset for the address input actually exists ;-) Goals were: - add lot's of missing icons from mappaint (bring presets and mappaint icons closer together) - trying to group stuff together that belongs together (making it easier to find things) - split very long menus (to better fit on low resolution screens) - add some stuff I was missing In detail: - (slight) relayout of waypoints entries - add a new transport/motorcycle section - whole relayout of water menu entries (water vs. shipping) - (slight) relayout of travel/tourism entries - add a new sport/motorsport section - add a new man_made/food section (selected items from shop section go here) - relayout of man_made/shop section - whole relayout of places entries - add a new annotation section - add some entries came to mind - other minor changes I'm still a bit unhappy with the travel and man_made menu layout, but even after thinking about it for a while, I couldn't find a better alternative layout. If I'll find some time, I'll continue to bring presets and mappaint icons closer together. IMHO it's a bad idea to have different icons in the presets and mappaint for the same stuff. If interested, please review ... Regards, ULFL ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
Re: [josm-dev] Major rework of the presets menu layout
Am 24.08.2010 13:32, schrieb Sebastian Klein: Some things, not necessarily related to your changes: * Geography top entry: better use icon for border or landuse rather then the icon for place, which is quite similar to man_made Good catch. Changed the icon to the cyan peak icon (SVN 3465). * a lot of entries under Travel I would not expect to find there: Restaurant, Playground, ... for me, Travel has also associations with streets and traffic, maybe a top level entry Tourism would suffice Yes, I've thought long about that. But the term Tourism also would not fit to Restaurant and Playground very well. * The tag keys (amenity, man_made) are no longer consistently mapped to the menu entries - so maybe not use these expressions at all. * menu entry Man Made Buildings is strange as there are a lot of buildings in other categories * i could imagine top level entry Buildings, then Shop and as third level submenu Foods - annotations - sub entry of Buildings true for address, false for wikipedia ;-) * possible category Service: could include the current amenity, financial, health Just my 2 ct. :) Maybe later another round of menu layout changes ... Regards, ULFL ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
Re: [josm-dev] Major rework of the presets menu layout
What I'd love to see as part of the presets, is a search, which includes synonyms, thus making it faster to access the presets than going through all of the menus. It needs synonyms as you'll often not know exactly what the preset is called, thus you could miss it, when in fact it is there, just with a different name to what you are expecting. Shaun On 24 Aug 2010, at 09:23, Ulf Lamping wrote: Hi! I've just done a major rework of the presets menu layout (SVN 3460). Hope you'll find it useful. The trigger for this work was a talk with a local mapper, who wasn't even aware that a preset for the address input actually exists ;-) Goals were: - add lot's of missing icons from mappaint (bring presets and mappaint icons closer together) - trying to group stuff together that belongs together (making it easier to find things) - split very long menus (to better fit on low resolution screens) - add some stuff I was missing In detail: - (slight) relayout of waypoints entries - add a new transport/motorcycle section - whole relayout of water menu entries (water vs. shipping) - (slight) relayout of travel/tourism entries - add a new sport/motorsport section - add a new man_made/food section (selected items from shop section go here) - relayout of man_made/shop section - whole relayout of places entries - add a new annotation section - add some entries came to mind - other minor changes I'm still a bit unhappy with the travel and man_made menu layout, but even after thinking about it for a while, I couldn't find a better alternative layout. If I'll find some time, I'll continue to bring presets and mappaint icons closer together. IMHO it's a bad idea to have different icons in the presets and mappaint for the same stuff. If interested, please review ... Regards, ULFL ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
Re: [josm-dev] Major rework of the presets menu layout
What abouut this design, selected to habituate, pace Jef Raskin? Have shift-P start an incremental search through the keys, values, synonyms, and descriptions. With every key you type, it shows you the first ten ones that match. If you then type a digit corresponding to one of the matches, it immediately selects that preset. So if you're entering a bunch of railway=level_crossing, you could type Ple3 (or whatever it worked out to be). A particularly clever implementation would preserve the habituation by remembering every string that you accepted, and ensure that the same preset was always put into the appropriately numbered slot. Shaun MS McDonald writes: What I'd love to see as part of the presets, is a search, which includes synonyms, thus making it faster to access the presets than going through all of the menus. It needs synonyms as you'll often not know exactly what the preset is called, thus you could miss it, when in fact it is there, just with a different name to what you are expecting. Shaun On 24 Aug 2010, at 09:23, Ulf Lamping wrote: Hi! I've just done a major rework of the presets menu layout (SVN 3460). Hope you'll find it useful. The trigger for this work was a talk with a local mapper, who wasn't even aware that a preset for the address input actually exists ;-) Goals were: - add lot's of missing icons from mappaint (bring presets and mappaint icons closer together) - trying to group stuff together that belongs together (making it easier to find things) - split very long menus (to better fit on low resolution screens) - add some stuff I was missing In detail: - (slight) relayout of waypoints entries - add a new transport/motorcycle section - whole relayout of water menu entries (water vs. shipping) - (slight) relayout of travel/tourism entries - add a new sport/motorsport section - add a new man_made/food section (selected items from shop section go here) - relayout of man_made/shop section - whole relayout of places entries - add a new annotation section - add some entries came to mind - other minor changes I'm still a bit unhappy with the travel and man_made menu layout, but even after thinking about it for a while, I couldn't find a better alternative layout. If I'll find some time, I'll continue to bring presets and mappaint icons closer together. IMHO it's a bad idea to have different icons in the presets and mappaint for the same stuff. If interested, please review ... Regards, ULFL ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
