Bug 259657

Summary:	'Download region': Zoom level is not intuitive
Product:	[Applications] marble	Reporter:	Michael G. Hansen <mike>
Component:	general	Assignee:	marble-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	laura.stern, nienhueser, rahn
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	some future version
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Mockup to show the current tile level in the status bar

Description Michael G. Hansen 2010-12-12 22:22:31 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

To me, the 'Tile level' option in the 'Download region' dialog is not very intuitive, because I have no idea what 'Tile level' means. Maybe one could instead offer options like 'Country', 'City', 'Highway', 'Walking' as possible levels?

Other options:
- Display a tile corresponding to the entered tile level, so that the user can see what kind of detail it corresponds to.
- Indicate the altitude of the point of view to which this tile level corresponds.

Michael


Reproducible: Didn't try




OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32-trunk-amd64
Compiler: gcc-amd64

Comment 1 Laura David Hurka 2019-04-27 12:09:37 UTC

Created attachment 119669 [details]
Mockup to show the current tile level in the status bar

This problem still exists today (Marble 2.2.20). I suggest to show the current tile level (what the rendering should be based on) next to the “Altitude” field in the status bar.

Comment 2 Torsten Rahn 2023-04-08 18:55:15 UTC

The ability to show the tile level is actually already implemented - but a bit hidden since we regard the "Download region" functionality as a feature for advanced users:

Just right-click on the statusbar and enable the display of the tile level there. That gives something very similar to your mockup. :-)