>>Dave F. said
>>And, as Tim F., points outs - there's no need to display correct info
>>(green) at all.
>I disagree and find these useful. It is often the case that part of a road
>has been named >correctly and parts incorrectly. The green boxes are very
>useful for finding the full extent of >a given road name. This information is
>lost in all other representations of this data which >only flag names with no
>match at all.
...which is why I suggested letting users have the *option* to turn them off as
I recognise that some find the information useful (including the developer, as
mentioned last week). It just bogs down my little netbook quite a bit, the poor
thing.
>Also, Robert, an unqualified thank you for your work on this - it's a great
>tool and is just >fine as is. Folks, if all people get is criticism when they
>invest effort and time in things >then they'll not bother next time. Sure,
>it's not perfect but it's an awful lot more than we'd >have if Robert hadn't
>invested his time and effort in it. As invited by him, spend some time
>>improving it rather than pulling it to pieces.
I would suggest that it's not criticism - just some feature requests with
opinions. At the very worst, it's constructive criticism. As a developer
myself, I'd be only too happy if people were "pulling it to pieces" (we're not,
by the way - we're just critiquing the UI) - it shows than people *want* to use
it (in the first instance), and want to use it as efficiently as possible .
It's up to the developer to decide what they think is important and not
important, and I'm sure Robert does not take any offence at the
questions/suggestions/critique leveled at him (feel free to correct me).
I'll repeat: the reason I am critiquing this is because I recognise that a lot
of time and effort has gone into this, and that this is a very valuable tool -
I do want to use it, and think that the developer would also like many people
to use it. Offering critique may help to improve the tool, encouraging more
people to use it. It may not. Offering critique also lets the developer gain
valuable feedback, and lets him/her know that people are using the tool. The
developer can ignore the feedback as he/she wishes.
Tim
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