[OpenLayers-Dev] animated zooming 1.4

[Duarte Carreira]

 Hi Emanuel.

The animated zooming looks just great! For me, aesthetics are really
important in webgis applications, even more than in other webapps, and
really help define if your app will stand-out or not from the rest of
the world.

I have 1 question/suggestion:

 - when you zoom, the map gets pixelated and you understand it's
updating. Then the map gets refreshed and turns crisp all at once. Is it
possible to show each tile as it is downloaded, showing the map being
refreshed tile by tile? For me this would really improve the dinamics of
the animated zooming.

Just a thought... It's quite impressive as it is!

Regards,
Duarte Carreira

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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:23:08 +0100
> From: Emanuel Sch?tze <emanuel at intevation.de>
> Subject: [OpenLayers-Dev] animated zooming 1.4
> To: dev at openlayers.org
> Message-ID: <200703021723.08884.emanuel at intevation.de>
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> Hi list,
> 
> my _last_ animated zooming version is online:
> http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/emanuel/animatedZooming/demo.html
> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/442
> 
> Features in current version:
> - scale all visible tiles by shrinking/enlarging 
> - scale red rectangle in overviewmap 
> - scale extra zoomOut tile 
> - scale _baselayer_ only
> - support wms, wms untiled and image baselayers
> - "smooth tile update"
> - recenter overviewmap after drag, doubleclick and panning 
> - NEW: animated panning integrated (also for overviewmap)
> - NEW: animated zooming for +/- buttons, zoomBox, 
> doubleclick, mousewheel, +/- 
> keys (together with animated panning!)
> - NEW: by using mousewheel: target below mousecursor stays at 
> the same 
> position after zooming; target not recenter!
> - NEW: new keys (pos1, end, page up/down) set for better panning
> 
> My version is now feature complete. I have to finish the 
> implementation 
> because it's a part of my thesis and I have to begin my 
> theoretical part.
> In the next 2 weeks I want to test and bugfix the current 
> version. I would be 
> deeply grateful if you can test/review the final demo and 
> report me all bugs. 
> I'm very interested in your feedback! Perhaps you have other 
> suggestions of 
> features? Or do you have an idea to optimize the performance 
> (it's a weak 
> point in the demo)? Please let me know your opinion. 
> 
> I want to collect all ideas for future work. If there are 
> some issues I will 
> try to continue my contribution after my thesis. One big 
> thing f.e. is the 
> support for all other baselayers.
> 
> I'm looking forward to getting your feedback.
> 
> Best regards,
> Emanuel
> 
> 
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