[Mapbender-users] Zoom and Center Module

Arnulf Christl arnulf.christl at wheregroup.com
Sun Apr 13 16:12:46 EDT 2008


On Wed, April 9, 2008 18:25, Len Kne wrote:
> Greetings
>
>
> I have been doing some eye tracking research on how people use the
> different navigation tools in web mapping (using a Mapbender interface).

This is awesome! Although it gives me pains to imagine that people do this
with the Mapbender default user interfaces. The results must be horrible.

:-)

> Specifically
> I am interested in efficiencies of using the "zoom by rectangle" module,
> verses the "pan" & "zoom" modules.  I'm still early into the work, but one
>  pattern is emerging with the "ZoomIn" tool.  People click on it and
> expect it to change the mouse behavior similar to pan and zoom by
> rectangle.  They try to go to the mapframe and zoom in, centering on where
> they click the mouse.
>
> My question is has anyone developed a module that combines center and
> ZoomIn?  I did not see it in the list of modules.  If not, I'll give it a
> try - I'm thinking it should be fairly straightforward.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Len
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