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Can't tell where streetlights are unless highly zoomed #9

Open jidanni opened 5 years ago

jidanni commented 5 years ago

Problem: Here lives three million people, http://osmstreetlight.bplaced.net/?#11/24.2006/120.6920 but where are their streetlights?

Since one needs to "zoom in to load data", it is very frustrating to find where they are hiding.

There are some streetlights in the east and northeast, but I had to tell you that, else it would take a lot of first zooming in, then "sweeping in the dark," to find them.

Maybe there are others but I don't know. I didn't sweep along the whole area to find them.

Maybe you could use these balls, https://www.opencellid.org , at less zoomed levels .

Maybe that way the server wouldn't be so burdened and users could get an idea of where to look for lights.

7RST1 commented 4 years ago

I also struggle with this. To extend your proposal; Maybe use a prerendered map on lower zoom levels. Like a heat map, just for light.