jamespstrachan
commented
3 years ago We did previously have black borders around the blue and red circles but found they did little to improve readability. The issue is the clumping of points and in fact having an extra border to fit in to a tight clump made it even harder to see what was going on.
Assuming this is for publication a workaround might be to zoom the map in and take a zoomed-in clip of the clumped area then present this as a boxout on the wider map. (If it's not for publication then the user can just interactively zoom to any clump they're interested in, right?).
The more complete solution is to apply some manner of dithering to the points and write some code that tries to prevent them from overlapping. My intuition tells me that this is likely to be a thorny problem due to the number of different ways the points could fall. It's similar to the issue we discussed previously in-person with Geoffrey about preventing the place names from overlapping. I think we'd need to demonstrate real value in improving this to justify the dev cost.
Circles representing villages on maps are currently distinguished by colours red and blue for respectively Christian or Jewish.
When features cluster, the circles are not very distinct and lump together.
Is it possible to distinguish them more by adding a black or white line around the individual circle?
Thanks.