modrzew / pokeminer

Pokemon location scraper
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[suggestion] different base layer for heatmaps #190

Closed Aiyubi closed 4 years ago

Aiyubi commented 8 years ago

first: I am colorblind Seeing the heatmaps there are a lot of the same colors (city) - yellow to red for heat and orange(?) for streets and such. All bright colors.

I coded myself so my local version uses satellite basemap as a quick fix. But for a wishlist I would like a darker basemap that can be chosen via config

Possible very dark map layer: https://carto.com/location-data-services/basemaps/ dark matter map (second pic and below some code I found)

YonderGod commented 8 years ago

Are reports still using google maps? If they're still google, they will be leaflet soon, which has lots of different options.

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I suggested changing the main map too.

modrzew commented 8 years ago

Note: soon means Soon™.

I found out that changing the tile layer in Leaflet is very easy (just change URL in one place). In the beginning I also thought of using grayscale map (to make Pokemon stand out more), but the Carto map requires an API key (which I don't want to use, due to all the hassle with Google Maps key and putting it in the config).

There's an existing discussion about maps provider in #186.