[ka-Map-users] continuous zoom

[Paul Spencer]

Peter,

I had thought this to be a feasible solution for some time, until I  
saw the Microsoft Virtual Earth implementation of it.

The problem that I see with continuous zoom by scaling the tiles to  
fill the scales that aren't tiled is the distortion of features and  
labels at the in-between scales.  Roads get thicker (or thinner) and  
labels become essentially unreadable.  IMHO it looks terrible and, as  
far as I can tell, it doesn't add any value to the end user  
experience over appropriately chosen scale breaks.

That being said, I don't think it would be terribly hard to do in ka- 
Map, although it may involve some tricky math in the scaling logic.

Cheers

Paul

On 25-Sep-05, at 8:32 AM, Peter Schut wrote:

> On July 20th, Paul Spencer threw out the following tantalizing idea:
>
>
>> it would be nice if kaMap scaled existing tile
>> images while zooming in/out (perhaps in a timed loop) to provide a  
>> more
>> continuous type of zoom
>>
>
> I have long thought that continuous zoom would significantly improve
> the user experience, and that scaling the pre-tiled images by the
> client is the way to go.  Has anyone been working on this feature?
>
> Cheers, Peter.
>
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