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Add Option to pick different Colors for Boomarks within "Edit Bookmark" Menue #532

Open EarthlingX opened 3 years ago

EarthlingX commented 3 years ago

Maybe more useful to post a feature request on GitHub instead of OpenRepos... :-)

Description of the issue:

Currently all bookmarks are drawn in blue color by default. Especially in cities with many boomarks added, it is hard to see what the point should indicate without tapping on it (because many bookmark titles are hidden due to bookmark density).

Example:

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Solution idea:

Would it be possible to add an option to pick different colors for bookmarks in the corresponding "Edit Bookmark" menue? It would be great if the user could select out of a few different colors when creating bookmarks.

Maybe an option located somewhere here?

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For example, I would like to color an ATM bookmark different than a viewpoint or a restaurant, so I can see on the first look if the POI should indicate an ATM or just a restaurant and if it is useful to go there. :-)

Example:

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Thank you very much in advance! :+1:

rinigus commented 3 years ago

It is very much more useful, thank you for posting here. What makes it bit non-trivial is that the POI colors are limited so far to the available colors of icons. For each map style, iconVariant is defined (blue by default). Compare your POIs using traffic tiles and switch between day and night. As you would see, icon colors will change accordingly.

So, selecting a specific color will not work as we swap between day and night maps. Otherwise we cannot guarantee visibility of the icons.

One option would be to define multiple icon colors for each map and then let users select "color default", "color alternative1", "color alternative2". Might get confusing though.

We can also define several POI icons that can be used distinguishing by types. Then user can choose alternative POI icon or maybe define some type?

Just few thoughts on it at this moment...

EarthlingX commented 3 years ago

We can also define several POI icons that can be used distinguishing by types. Then user can choose alternative POI icon or maybe define some type?

Great! I think this is very much the most helpful option! Just a few selectable icons or predefined colors will be better than any missing separation at all I guess. :-)

briest commented 2 years ago

Maybe it'd be possible to combine POI pin as a background with „original” POI icon? poi Thus making a pin "permanent" and highlighted POI, displayed irregardless of zoom level. Still won't be readable with greater density, though...