Re: Feature Request Wood/Heath Colours

[jethro]

Well after playing around a bit, the "more Details" option changed the 
heath colour to a paler green, fixing my issue. However I have no idea why! 
and what else More Details gives - google didn't help much.
However, I'm there.
It's been a few years since using my OsmAnd+ app, and it's come on quite a 
bit - still a tad slow though on rendering, which is why I quit it in the 
first place.

J

On Friday, 2 June 2017 15:18:40 UTC+1, jethro wrote:
>
> Would it be possible to differentiate a bit more between wood and heath. 
> Perhaps a paler green for heath
>
> For Outdoor folks and Hill Walkers, they look ever so close in colour and 
> I've needed to use a shape of a wood I can see from a hill to orientate 
> myself to keep me on my path.
>
> Currently I can't see woods very well, and need to drop into Maps.me to 
> get me going.
> I love the GPX analysis in osm and would dearly love to use if for outdoor 
> pursuits a bit more.
>
> I'm away for a few days, but will look back in next week to see if there 
> is a reply :-)
>
>
> J
>

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Re: Feature Request Wood/Heath Colours

[Kevin Kenny]

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 10:18 AM, jethro  wrote:

> Would it be possible to differentiate a bit more between wood and heath.
> Perhaps a paler green for heath
>
> For Outdoor folks and Hill Walkers, they look ever so close in colour and
> I've needed to use a shape of a wood I can see from a hill to orientate
> myself to keep me on my path.
>
> Currently I can't see woods very well, and need to drop into Maps.me to
> get me going.
> I love the GPX analysis in osm and would dearly love to use if for outdoor
> pursuits a bit more.
>
> I'm away for a few days, but will look back in next week to see if there
> is a reply :-)
>
>
For what it's worth, I've not managed to make OSMand work well for me in
that application. I use Backcountry Navigator - a lot - for mapping work
Out There. (My biggest 'boots-on-the-ground' OSM mapping project
to date was capturing the centre line of the 220-km Northville-Placid
Trail https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#route?id=4286650=relation
and it was a great vacation!)

I don't know the state of outdoor mapping where you are, but where I am,
it's
downright abysmal. I've resorted to rendering my own tiles with Mapnik,
using OSM plus a number of government data sources. The result is
a map something like https://caltopo.com/l/416J - choose the 'Kevin' layer
if it's not already selected. (Sorry about the Imperial measurements -
I'm an American.)

You can see there that there are coniferous, deciduous and mixed forest,
cropland, meadow and marsh called out. (You may need to pan about
to find a marsh.) Farther north, you can find areas of heath, alpine meadow
and barren rock (there's a lot of that on the Gothics peak -
https://caltopo.com/l/QN17)

Here, I'm using third-party satellite data for land cover - OSM doesn't
have much in the way of landcover polygons where I am.

We really, really need to consolidate efforts into producing an OSM
topographic map series. Alas, all the topo mappers (myself included)
tend to be loners, and coordinating the effort is like herding cats.
What I'm doing is admittedly just a proof of concept - but it's what
I have the resources to manage.

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Feature Request Wood/Heath Colours

[jethro]

Would it be possible to differentiate a bit more between wood and heath. 
Perhaps a paler green for heath

For Outdoor folks and Hill Walkers, they look ever so close in colour and 
I've needed to use a shape of a wood I can see from a hill to orientate 
myself to keep me on my path.

Currently I can't see woods very well, and need to drop into Maps.me to get 
me going.
I love the GPX analysis in osm and would dearly love to use if for outdoor 
pursuits a bit more.

I'm away for a few days, but will look back in next week to see if there is 
a reply :-)


J

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