GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 767984
Allow users to filter elements (e.g.: cities, country borders, etc)
Last modified: 2018-03-26 13:52:01 UTC
Sometimes I look at the map and just want to see a particular country's borders, or just the capital cities, or the non-capital cities for that matter, but I am really unable to due to the fact that there is so much data, so many cities displayed at the same time, so many borders and different types too that I really can't make anything out. Especially the fact that the country borders are really rather faint when everything is being displayed. So I think like with Google Earth it might be useful if there would be different categories with elements listed in them and tick boxes next to them so that one can decide which ones to show to better narrow some things down. I initially reported this issue here but thought I should also do so upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-maps/+bug/1595663
It's an interesting idea, thanks for the suggestion. However, currenly we rely on readily-available bitmap tiles. I think for something like this to be feasable, we would need to render the map tiles locally from some kind of vectorized data. This way the rendering could be changed in run-time to include different amounts of "stuff", or offer different map styles. This is something we plan to eventually implement. This would also allow showing different points-of-interest on the map. However, this is a fairly large project to implement, and we rely entirely on volontary spare-time work.
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