Towards paperless geocaching - Advanced Geocaching Tool for Linux

[Marcel]

Am Mittwoch, den 02.09.2009, 05:11 -0500 schrieb D. Fett: 
> Sorry, but i absolutely don't want these icons in the app, for some reasons:
> - the licensing issues you already mentioned
> - but more importantly, these icons are very big. You don't see where the
> geocache is actually located. Therefore i choose the square (so you can
> easily spot the geocache) with the little crosshair in the center (so you
> can see where _exactly_ the geocache is located).
> - drawing the icons would be slower than drawing simple squares and lines
> - it's easier to make the squares and lines translucent, so that the user
> can see underlying streets

I admit I wondered which of both would draw faster, that's of course
important. :)