Comments on: The National Broadband Map http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/11/28/national-broadband-map/ Start-ups, Maps and Local Search in New Zealand Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:42:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: tom http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/11/28/national-broadband-map/#comment-1044 tom Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:18:06 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/11/28/national-broadband-map/#comment-1044 The polygons can be turned on by clicking the "networks" check box: this enables both polyline networks and those shown as polygons. However, with SSC we made the decision to disable polygon display at the bottom three zoom levels. That's because the polygon areas tend to be larger than the viewport, so much of the time you'll either see no polygons anyway or have the whole map covered by a coloured polygon, which looks very odd and makes the map hard to see. It's not ideal, but we'll try tweaking the colours and opacity throughout the Beta period to see if there's a better solution. With up to seven overlapping networks to show on top of a fully-detailed road map, not to mention the markers, as you can imagine it gets busy very quickly! It's as much a design and visualisation challenge as a technical one. The polygons can be turned on by clicking the “networks” check box: this enables both polyline networks and those shown as polygons. However, with SSC we made the decision to disable polygon display at the bottom three zoom levels. That’s because the polygon areas tend to be larger than the viewport, so much of the time you’ll either see no polygons anyway or have the whole map covered by a coloured polygon, which looks very odd and makes the map hard to see. It’s not ideal, but we’ll try tweaking the colours and opacity throughout the Beta period to see if there’s a better solution. With up to seven overlapping networks to show on top of a fully-detailed road map, not to mention the markers, as you can imagine it gets busy very quickly! It’s as much a design and visualisation challenge as a technical one.

]]> By: Ben http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/11/28/national-broadband-map/#comment-1043 Ben Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:48:00 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/11/28/national-broadband-map/#comment-1043 Nice! How do you see the polygon overlays? I couldn't suss it out. Nice! How do you see the polygon overlays? I couldn’t suss it out.

]]> By: john http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/11/28/national-broadband-map/#comment-1042 john Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:29:44 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/11/28/national-broadband-map/#comment-1042 Surprise, surprise. Xero was the first business to the map for high speed broadband! Nice one Rod Surprise, surprise. Xero was the first business to the map for high speed broadband!

Nice one Rod

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