Webplanner: paths/features/zoom levels

Alan G shared this question 13 hours ago
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Further to issue https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/36805-lomaps-online-zoom-level-rules-for-peaks , a couple of other issues I find which make the usability awkward:

1/ Some paths appear at zoom 14, but many do not appear until zoom 16. In contrast on other web maps like OSM and brouter etc, all these paths appear at the most at zoom 14. (brouter its 14, OSM its 13). I had a look into it and it appears that the OSM 'ways' which appear in Webplanner at zoom 14 have tags k="highway" v="path", and those at zoom 16 have k="highway" v="footway". However in reality on the ground huge number of footpaths have v="footway" , so not showing them until zoom 16 does not make much sense to me.

Is there some reason for this ? It's another thing which forces a lot of zooming in and out when route planning. Of course the routing engine happily uses all these paths whatever the zoom so why not show them at the same zoom levels ?

For example look at location:

https://web.locusmap.app/en/plan?lat=53.9196024&lng=-2.6143169&z=13&map=hikeBike

and compare with :

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/53.91961/-2.61423&layers=C

Compare the visibility of paths at each zoom level as you zoom in. The problem with the Lomap is the paths do not become visible until you are too close so you can't see where they are going without zooming out - then they disappear.

2/ Features like peaks do not appear until zoom level 14. On most maps these usually appear at the most at zoom 13. Often lower. Is there some reason for this ? It would certainly be better if peaks appeared at the most at zoom 13 .

Again, as above, compare with the OSM map. At zoom 13 the LoMap just shows an empty area - pretty useless really. Strangely it does show the Lopoints at zoom 13 but you have to hover over each point to see what it is. Why not show the caption for it on the map also ?

It would not be good to show everything at 13 as it would become too cluttered but peaks and suchlike major features would be very useful.

Also compare with Lomaps Offline where the peaks appear at zoom 12, and all paths/footways at 13.

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