Wednesday 21st May 2008
Hill Shade Teaser
Time for another glimpse behind the scenes in the Cycle Map development!
Elevation colouring! Hill Shading! How cool is that? (N.B. If you ever hear me asking, then the answer is one of ‘very’ and ‘awesome’. ‘Meh’ is a valid response, but don’t let me hear you saying it!)
Now for all the OSM types there’s a few caveats. The last time I posted a teaser (for contours) it took me six months to get things working properly. And there’s plenty of things need fixing before the hillshading will go live, like some resolution issues, tiling issues, a minor problem involving the ocean shapefiles and so on - never mind choosing some colours that are a bit more subtle. So be patient!
Awesome. Unbelievably awesome.
And that’s a _lovely_ stretch of NCN 8 to choose - some good footpath mapping in the area, too. Though I might ask for one of your popup warning triangles saying “if you’re cycling this bit at night, watch out for the handlebar-height barrier across the path right at the bottom of the hill”.
Comment by Richard Fairhurst — 21/5/2008 @ 3:00 pm
This looks lovely. I’m a little scared it’ll make the map harder to parse though. A very subtle greyscale might be better: cyclists only really care about local gradient, not absolute heights, so a full-on rainbow height map might be overkill.
Will cycleway=* be rendered as routes (/hazards) in urban areas?
Comment by Andrew Chadwick — 21/5/2008 @ 3:06 pm
> never mind choosing some colours that are a bit more subtle
Whoops, I fail at reading. Sorry.
Comment by Andrew Chadwick — 21/5/2008 @ 3:08 pm
Very awesome!
Comment by Colin Marquardt — 21/5/2008 @ 3:40 pm
Whow, I just can’t wait…
Comment by Gerco-Kees — 21/5/2008 @ 7:14 pm