incanus
commented
13 years ago Something else to think about here is a Library icon as well. We will soon be refactoring the UI (per "Layer & data management" in this blog post and the Library will be app-wide and where all of your data lives. Then, the current layer UI will be document-specific, in the context of the map you are working on right now.
And yet one more angle is an animated version that can show one or more downloads going on in a "percent completed" sort of way. Reeder is a good app example for this, in the way it caches images for RSS posts.
To be clear, none of the things in this comment are immediately actionable, but they represent some things we'll be thinking about soon and that will definitely need custom graphics.
samanpwbb
willwhite
Saman, I'd love to get your take on some custom toolbar graphics for the iPad app. In the past, I've avoided it to keep the toolbar using the built-in class rather than custom coding a mix of text and graphical buttons. I think we can clean up the app a bit, though, and it's worth it now.
Here's the current look:
Here's Apple's Keynote app toolbar as an example:
I am thinking in ours, we keep it with no title (though this will likely change when we move to a Keynote-like document-centric map model). We'd also keep "My Maps" as text.
But I think we could use a custom help button (currently using a textual ? with a space on each side for padding), clustering, and layers graphics.
Layers could be based on the MBTiles logo and/or like this Carcassonne image (sorry @willwhite, couldn't resist):
For clustering, maybe something like 2-3 points surrounded by a dashed/solid circle? That's a toggle button, so it needs both states.
Any thoughts?
/cc @willwhite @gundersen