locator map is disorienting

[JoeGermuska]

I think there's a problem with the locator map and the new side-by-side layout. The area in the locator reflects the entire map, but perceptually, the right half isn't there, even if technically it is behind the slide.

I'm not sure if it's feasible to make the locator half-width to better approximate the visible part of the map, but I think it's worth a harder look.

[zachwise]

Are you referring to the latest on master branch? I changed how the locator works. I think the zoomify branch is still on the old version.

[JoeGermuska]

maybe. Can you do further development on the zoomify branch so we are all in sync?

[zachwise]

Sure

[JoeGermuska]

So, this is what I'm seeing on the dev server. The aspect ratio of the locator map is off, because it doesn't show the woman's head or umbrella. And the aspect ratio of the locator rectangle in the map still shows the problem I was trying to describe above.

[JoeGermuska]

on this image, with a white story tile, the visibility behind the tile helps alleviate the perceptual issue. My original comment was based on the first slide, which has the Seurat portrait as a background and makes it feel more like the locator rectangle should be portrait-orientation.

[zachwise]

Gotcha, so zoomify locator maps.

[JoeGermuska]

Yeah, I think it's just that you have a fixed aspect ratio for the rectangle. If you want it to show the entire image, it should be based off of the image dimensions supplied when a gigapixel map is created.