[DUG] TUMONZ SDK beta program - general GUI design

Neven MacEwan neven at mwk.co.nz
Thu May 25 16:56:26 NZST 2006


Phil

Is it meant to support Firefox? (Is just killed mine)
Linz don't, I complained over their search function not working and they 
told me not to use Firefox (oh to be a monopolistic government dept)

Neven

Phil Scadden wrote:
>> For sure, skin a cat, many ways etc etc.  FYI my typical usage of a
>> mapping program (windows based, I haven't used Tumonz live other than to
>> try it out) it to do a text search for a location, click on that
>> location so that the map will bring me to that location hopefully at a
>> reasonable zoom level.  Then pan around that location.  I never find a
>> location by locating it on a big scale then zooming into it so for me
>> zoom is a very rarely used feature.
> 
> Hmm, but for others its huge. Want to work in  a particular area. It probably
> doesn't have a name, so locate in map of nz by marque box, and then
> probably another iteration to get area right as recognisable features come
> in by zooming in. Now, lets say want to locate land owner so can contact
> them. Chances are I am zooming in and out all the time to get workable
> information where landowner is on small blocks. Ditto when finding
> things like schools or petrol stations.
> 
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