Overwork of Map Layouts and other News – June 2022

By extremecarver, on June 3rd, 2022

Hi Everyone – wishing you all a good outdoor/bicycle season this summer!

 

To make your biking and outdoor activities even better – I invested a lot of time – partly together with a graphics designer – to improve the layout of the maps regarding to making them nicer to look at. Previously I had tried to design all elements so that they are easiest to distinguish – that however caused the some not so important things – like the differentiation between industrial or residential quarters to stick out too much – while for most people the main importance is if you are in the nature or in a build up area. It’s still easy to distinguish between shopping, industrial or residential quarters – but the different places don’t pop out of the screen anymore – leaving better contrast to streets and trails – so things that really matter. I also made buildings much more similar – I think the old differentiation between simple buildings and those with touristic or public usage was not as important as to make them a darker grey. Landfills are now moved to show only at very high detail – they showed too early.

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June 3rd, 2022 | 2 comments

VeloMaps now offer the possibility to show 20m contourlines without buildings on PC/Mac/Linux

By extremecarver, on May 8th, 2022

I updated the VeloMap compilation process to include an option to show 20m contourlines but no buildings. With gmapsupp.img downloads this has been possible now for over a year – however on your PC/Notebook you could only chose to have map without buildings and without contourlines.

Now there are the following choices for the VeloMaps:

Map without buildings and without contourlines Map with 20m conturlines without buildings Map with 20m contourliens including buidings Map with 10m contourlines including buildings

Of course you can also install a separate buildings only map, 20m contourlines map and 10m contourlines map if you prefer to create your maps with Garmin MapInstall instead of using the gmapsupp.img downloads

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For Linux – the corresponding mapset files are called mapsetxb* (while mapsetb are the buildings layer only).

I know the disadvantage of the separate buildings layer is that the buildinds are a transparent layer – this has the disadvantage that they are drawn above other objects. As I assume that about 50% of VeloMap users prefer a map without buildings – I put them in a separate layer for the VeloMap. People who want 10m contourlines (except maybe in very flat countries/areas) usually […]

May 8th, 2022 | 2 comments
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