Why isn't the water blue

[joop....@gmail.com]

Great maps, but I wish that the different types of water were in blue colour as in "normal" maps.

Maybe in next builds!??

grtz

Joop

[Max]

OsmAnd normally displays water in blue.
Which renderer are you using and where is the water not blue?

Regards,
Max

[joop....@gmail.com]

I use version 1.7.5 with  the newest maps.

The colour of waters is a kind of grey. For me difficult to see.

Op dinsdag 10 juni 2014 09:13:33 UTC+2 schreef joop....@gmail.com:

[Harry van der Wolf]

Can you attach a screen shot?

The rendering colors are definitely blue for water, so it is really strange that it is grey for you. In my case it is perfectly blue.

As Max already asked: Do you use another render file?

Harry

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[joop....@gmail.com]

Osmand installed just out of the box.

You can see what I mean by the screenshot of Amsterdam(car navigation) on the webpage.

Two main roads are in light blue and dark blue while the water is a kind of greenish grey-blue.

Especially difficult to see if it is a small water. Also the difference with buildings and streets is minimal

grtz

Joop

Op dinsdag 10 juni 2014 09:13:33 UTC+2 schreef joop....@gmail.com:

Great maps, but I wish that the different types of water were in blue colour as in "normal" maps.

[t.]

Well the shades of blue in the screenshots on the website look fine to me.

The first question is, of course, what is a "normal" map for Joop, which depends

on purpose (car navigation, waterway navigation, hiking) as well as on cultural

background. 

In Europe, motorways are often rendered blue, thus the water needs 

to differ from that.

For car navigation, water is just a landscape feature such as meadows,

forests or residential areas, so it is good to have that in more pale tones. 

I have sampled the R/G/B values in the screenshot on the website: 

http://download.osmand.net/resource/android-osmand-routing.png

66/28/255 for the proposed route ahead (dark blue)

132/154/255 for the motorway

181/211/214 for the water features, which has a bit more R/G in it

to make it lighter, but well suited for the purpose of car navigation.

How distinguishable that is for a particular user might also depend on

his screen adjustment and calibration.

t.

[Max]

The new UniRS rendering style has a more intensive water colour:
https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-resources/blob/master/rendering_styles/UniRS.render.xml

I like it.

Regards,
Max

On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:16:30 PM UTC+2, joop....@gmail.com wrote:

[joop....@gmail.com]

I agree with you when you're talking about car navigation.

Then the most important things are the roads.

(but for normal car navigation there are lots of other programs with almost the same quality)

 

I think that the strength of Osmand is the fact that you can go off-road(bike, pedestrian) with the maps and then is the color of water (the difference with the surroudings) more important.

Maybe I need better glasses and tablet;-)

 

 

Thanks for your reaction!

 

grtz

 

Joop

 

P.S.: I meant by "normal" maps the old-fashioned paper maps 

Op dinsdag 10 juni 2014 09:13:33 UTC+2 schreef joop....@gmail.com:

Great maps, but I wish that the different types of water were in blue colour as in "normal" maps.

[mateusz...@gmail.com]

Guys I have to undig this old topic I have the same problem this is extremely frustrating. I cannot sail cause the water colour is not different enough from land its very hard to distinguish it from land. It's Osmand Plus 3.0.4 on android. How to make make lake blue again ?