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Duke87:
I honestly forgot that loading mapview without a rg or sys parameter was a thing. Indeed my usual way of getting to it is typing "rg=" in the address bar, grabbing one of the options Firefox suggests as a match, and then editing what comes after the = sign to what I want.
I could see it defaulting to the user's current location if available being potentially useful, though this is not a functionality I see myself using since, well, see above.
pderocco:
Yes, I know this is old, but nothing has changed yet.
Another possibility would be to remember the last viewed location and zoom level in a cookie.
But the main thing for me is the ease or difficulty of getting around. In most mapping programs, if I'm looking, say, at New York and I want to look at California, I use the mouse wheel to scroll way out, then scroll back in. That doesn't work on travelmapping unless you turn off "Always Update Visible Routes", because when you zoom way out, there is so much data to download that it hangs. I think that there should be a zoom level above which it refuses to download anything, so that all you can do is move around. Indeed, if the only purpose of that checkbox is to allow you to zoom way out, then it could be removed.
vdeane:
--- Quote from: pderocco on September 16, 2023, 09:49:00 pm ---Yes, I know this is old, but nothing has changed yet.
Another possibility would be to remember the last viewed location and zoom level in a cookie.
But the main thing for me is the ease or difficulty of getting around. In most mapping programs, if I'm looking, say, at New York and I want to look at California, I use the mouse wheel to scroll way out, then scroll back in. That doesn't work on travelmapping unless you turn off "Always Update Visible Routes", because when you zoom way out, there is so much data to download that it hangs. I think that there should be a zoom level above which it refuses to download anything, so that all you can do is move around. Indeed, if the only purpose of that checkbox is to allow you to zoom way out, then it could be removed.
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Are you not familiar with the "jump" functionality? You can enter a location and it will take you right there (IIRC, it even preserves your current zoom). As for zooming out, people will have different tolerances for how long they'll wait (and the map doesn't require you to do so to pan, either), and that button is useful for other things, too (like it you want to zoom in and pan around an area without waiting on updates).
pderocco:
--- Quote from: vdeane on September 16, 2023, 10:57:20 pm ---Are you not familiar with the "jump" functionality? You can enter a location and it will take you right there (IIRC, it even preserves your current zoom). As for zooming out, people will have different tolerances for how long they'll wait (and the map doesn't require you to do so to pan, either), and that button is useful for other things, too (like it you want to zoom in and pan around an area without waiting on updates).
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Yes, I'm familiar with it. But I don't want to have to type in the name of a place. The way I use Google Maps, Google Earth, and other mapping programs, is to move around by panning and zooming. It's very natural and fast and one-handed. And that's how I do it now, in Travel Mapping, but I have to remember to turn off the Always Update Visible Routes button, and then turn it on again, which negates the efficiency.
Markkos1992:
--- Quote ---And that's how I do it now, in Travel Mapping, but I have to remember to turn off the Always Update Visible Routes button, and then turn it on again, which negates the efficiency.
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I have had that toggled off for a while. I do not even think it has toggled back on after me erasing the cache in my browser.
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