| RolandUnger | |
| Jul 31 2016, 12:47 PM |
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| Feb 11 2018, 9:28 PM |
Map markers always have white symbols or labels. If a light background like yellow is used this could not be read easily. In case of light backgrounds black labels should be used.
This task was mentioned at Community-Wishlist-Survey-2017 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Miscellaneous/Kartographer_improvements), which got the No.1 out of 214 proposals.
I don't think this is supported by Kartotherian (Kartotherian-Maki) at the moment, but maybe there is a way (low cost) to add support for it?
This seems low priority to me, as finding a darker background feels easy enough.
Here is the map of Prague. I turned off the dark background one region, to compare darkish and no fill. Hopefully some of the "map markers" we're taking about are here ? Which markers here, if any, are the problem. Or, if they're not here, can anyone please show a map that demonstrates the problem?
I thought about the marker pushpins themselves. If they are for instance yellow then it is difficult the read the pushpin inscription.
As follow-up from this, we should recommend that stimple-style have the ability to set the text and marker colours independently.
Solved as part of the WMDE-GeoInfo-FocusArea, see T302861: Actually update the Maki icons and the many linked tasks. The relevant code was added via github.com/wikimedia/makizushi/pull/8 and later improved.