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Very cool, but on the website version, it's hard to get the appropriate charts for smaller waterways. I thought I'd check out the local bay. At zoom levels to

by pflats 13y ago

Very cool, but on the website version, it's hard to get the appropriate charts for smaller waterways. I thought I'd check out the local bay. At zoom levels to see anything, it shows the larger chart[1]. If I zoom in enough, it will load the local chart, but at that point, I can barely see enough of the region to be useful[2]. (Those images are one zoom level apart.) How does the app handle this? [1]http://i.imgur.com/htvjmRw.png http://i.imgur.com/htvjmRw.png [2]http://i.imgur.com/0AZWl9C.png http://i.imgur.com/0AZWl9C.png

andrewljohnson 13y ago
Thanks, I have a couple of comments on this: 1) The app handles the charts the same way, so any defects you see on the web must live in the app too. 2) We have a plan for this though, and your screenshots (and coordinates) are super useful. We set up the chart server such that any of our team can improve the charts, and we'd like to expose this interface to users eventually too. We have tools that let us change the cutlines of the charts, and change the layering of the charts, from a web interface. These changes get pushed down to the app as metadata, and so we don't need to change the app at all to improve the chart mosaic continuously. We tried to do our best to layer the harbor, approach, and ocean charts in a user-friendly way, but we expect to make algorithmic and spot changes to the mosaic based on further feedback, so thanks! 3) We also have plans for a feature that didn't quite make it into v1.0. We'd like to set it up so you can press and hold on the chart, to surface the entire unadulterated chart, on top of the mosaic, and then zoom and pan it, with collars and legends and insets and everything. Since we mosaic the charts on the fly on the device, this is pretty easy to do.
- aidenn0 13y ago
  More feedback for you then; Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island) near Wickford has similar issues, made even more obvious by the fact that there is an inset placed just outside the harbor. [edit] Also, and the farthest out zoom level that shows the detail, it's impossible to find the "See Note X" stuff. I panned around a while on a 1920x1200 monitor unable to find some of these.

by pflats 13y ago

andrewljohnson 13y ago

Thanks, I have a couple of comments on this: 1) The app handles the charts the same way, so any defects you see on the web must live in the app too. 2) We have a plan for this though, and your screenshots (and coordinates) are super useful. We set up the chart server such that any of our team can improve the charts, and we'd like to expose this interface to users eventually too. We have tools that let us change the cutlines of the charts, and change the layering of the charts, from a web interface. These changes get pushed down to the app as metadata, and so we don't need to change the app at all to improve the chart mosaic continuously. We tried to do our best to layer the harbor, approach, and ocean charts in a user-friendly way, but we expect to make algorithmic and spot changes to the mosaic based on further feedback, so thanks! 3) We also have plans for a feature that didn't quite make it into v1.0. We'd like to set it up so you can press and hold on the chart, to surface the entire unadulterated chart, on top of the mosaic, and then zoom and pan it, with collars and legends and insets and everything. Since we mosaic the charts on the fly on the device, this is pretty easy to do.

aidenn0 13y ago
More feedback for you then; Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island) near Wickford has similar issues, made even more obvious by the fact that there is an inset placed just outside the harbor. [edit] Also, and the farthest out zoom level that shows the detail, it's impossible to find the "See Note X" stuff. I panned around a while on a 1920x1200 monitor unable to find some of these.