<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM, D. Fett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fett_mokokernel@fragcom.de">fett_mokokernel@fragcom.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br>> What about using the original GC.com cache icons for GCs? Of couse one<br>
> would have to download them separately (licensing issues iirc from the<br>
> TangoGPS geocaching "extension").<br>
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</div></div>Sorry, but i absolutely don't want these icons in the app, for some reasons:<br>
- the licensing issues you already mentioned<br></blockquote><div><br>Can be resolved, see my other mail<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
- but more importantly, these icons are very big. You don't see where the<br>
geocache is actually located. Therefore i choose the square (so you can<br>
easily spot the geocache) with the little crosshair in the center (so you<br>
can see where _exactly_ the geocache is located).<br></blockquote><div><br>I find it more intuitive to see the original pixmaps, and as they stay the same size (32x32px) as I zoom in to let's say level 20 when near a cache that corresponds to just a few centimeters on a map, thus much less than the general accuracy of the GPSr ...<br>
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- drawing the icons would be slower than drawing simple squares and lines<br></blockquote><div><br>Is that so? It's on my Todo-List to benchmark these different approaches, but not necessarily a major slow-down from my expererience.<br>
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- it's easier to make the squares and lines translucent, so that the user<br>
can see underlying streets<br></blockquote><div><br>That is a valid point in my opinion, plus it offers several posiibilities (nice to see the names on the map, btw!)<br><br>So to me there are no apparent technical difficulties to do so, but of course this depends entirely on the intended design of the SW, and the result is most likely merely a cosmetical one. Nice to see some alternatives, though, and the online features and the database browsing is a real plus here!<br>
<br>Stefan<br></div></div>