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hackgvl / trolley-tracker

The Repo specifically for the tracking of the trolley in Greenville
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Suggestion to make the route lines easier to see. #161

Closed WayneRyan closed 1 year ago

WayneRyan commented 6 years ago

Amazingly cool app!!!

The yellow route is difficult to see on the yellow road lines. It would be easier if the route lines each had a border. Also, if the route lines had transparency set to something like 50% then it would be possible to increase the line width without obscuring the map under them.

jeremywight commented 6 years ago

Thanks for opening this up Wayne!

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Amazingly cool app!!!

The yellow route is difficult to see on the yellow road lines. It would be easier if the route lines each had a border. Also, if the route lines had transparency set to something like 50% then it would be possible to increase the line width without obscuring the map under them.

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bikeoid commented 6 years ago

FYI - I just updated the web client with some of these suggestion - a true route border would be difficult, but I substituted by placing a line down the middle. An example can be seen on the dev server at http://yeahthattrolley.azurewebsites.net/ClientWeb , and this will show up on the real web client at TrackTheTrolley.com.

(Clicking on a trolley also highlights its route and dims others).

If these changes look good, we can update the IOS and Android apps with similar changes.

WayneRyan commented 6 years ago

You are awesome.

If you can draw lines of different thickness; can you get a border effect by drawing the lines thick with one color, then drawing a thin line on top of that with a different color? Is that a lot of code?

Website looks good. How long have the arrows been there? I didn't see them when I installed the app last Saturday. Showing direction of the line is a nice improvement.

The app on my phone doesn't seem to be working now. It gives me a message "There are no trolleys running at this time. Please..." but the web app seems to show trolleys running.

Thank You

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FYI - I just updated the web client with some of these suggestion - a true route border would be difficult, but I substituted by placing a line down the middle. An example can be seen on the dev server at http://yeahthattrolley.azurewebsites.net/ClientWeb , and this will show up on the real web client at TrackTheTrolley.com.

(Clicking on a trolley also highlights its route and dims others).

If these changes look good, we can update the IOS and Android apps with similar changes.

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bikeoid commented 6 years ago

The web client above does draw a thin black line on top already, and that has improved the route visibility of the light colored route.

The arrows are only on the web client - they don't show on any of the apps. I don't remember if we have issues for the travel direction for the apps.

The development site demo with the running trolleys is a simulator with fake trolleys. But since trolleys don't start running until 6:00 tonight, the app on your phone won't show any trolleys until then. The phone app won't have any of these changes yes because we have to update the apps separately as we get time.