Increase contour line density #1158
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There is a big disadvantage of decreasing the interval: increased file size. Now isolines are turned off for some regions because they take too much space. We may improve the compression in the future, or maybe split isolines from the main map and allow to download them separately. |
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In Croatia near the sea, I first thought this feature would not work at all, because I had to zoom-in really a lot in order to make the contour lines appear... And then I saw initially only contour lines in the sea (I am wondering why), but not at land (only when looking really closely, I saw very few ones on land). I wanted to go bicycling spontaneously, and to choose a route that has less elevation... but that didn't work out at all. Also in South Germany, it feels like the contour lines are basically useless, because they are not fine grained enough.
This could also reduce overall amount of data traffic to you servers, because a decent amount of people might not be interested in contour lines at all, I would guess. |
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Yes please please can this be reconsidered. Here’s comparison of the same area with your, ahem, competitor: It’s not exactly Alps we’ve got here in England, but it is what is - still some terrain to be considered when planning a hike or a ride, if I didn’t know this place very well I’d be in for a nasty surprise. That being said, aftermentioned competitor managed to gradually screw up some core functionality, so here I am, where it all started back at the mercy of MWM team. So contours or not thank you guys for still being there for us! |
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Currently the contour lines appear at 50m elevation intervals in some locations and 20m in others. It would be much more useful to get that data on the map at 10 meter intervals everywhere at a sufficiently high zoom level. I hope that the code and data are already there
This can be a quick solution for an alternative to the hillshading feature request (I'd argue it is a better and higher priority feature)
Examples are:
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