[Freegis-list] time based maps

Jerome Alet alet at librelogiciel.com
Mon Sep 23 23:12:23 CEST 2002


On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:06:25PM -0700, Anselm Hook wrote:
> 
> No doubt it would look weird but thats just topology.  Maybe a more
> comprehensible way would be to show human subjective distance as another
> dimension such as say elevation - human slow paths would be suggested by a
> steep hill to ascend and descend.

Wouldn't it be easier to represent faster roads with a bigger width 
than slower ones on the map ?

This way there's no distortion, the only difference is that highways
may be represented as very thin if they are slow (and the other way
around)

PS : Maybe this is completely stupid.

Jerome Alet




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