Re: [Flightgear-devel] mpmap03 updates

[Tobias D. <tda...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 04:44:55PM +0200, Torsten Dreyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just added a little feature to https://mpmap03.flightgear.org/. It
> now no longer stacks aircraft icons on top of each other but automatically
> builds "clusters icons" depicting the number of combined icons. Clicking on
> a cluster icon zooms the map to show all aircraft sitting in this cluster.
> It's a little clumsy to describe by words but feels quite naturally when
> actually using it.

Sorry to ruin your buzz, but I kind of hate it - sometimes people fly
close to one another, especially at busy airports with ongoing ATC sessions,
and clustering them makes it impossible to see who's there and who's
not. For example, Jomo tends to have two clients running at EDDF, in the
same location (OpenRadar and ORCAM, I believe), so no matter how closely
you zoom in, the entire airport is always clustered. This is
particularly unnerving because now you can no longer see which stands
are occupied, who's about to fly, etc.

It's definitely nice for when you're zoomed out, but I would be really
really grateful if you could add a switch to turn it on and off.

> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> 
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> Torsten Dreyer

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