Re: [stem-dev] map suggestion

[James Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan,
I agree,
alpha 10% looks much better.
Best Regards,
Jamie

IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Rd.
San Jose, CA 95120-6099
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From:	Stefan Edlund <edlund@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	stem-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:	04/28/2011 04:01 PM
Subject:	[stem-dev] map suggestion
Sent by:	stem-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi all,

a quick suggestion, let me know of anyone disagrees. For the map view in
STEM, sometimes it's difficult to see the shade (e.g. relative number of
infectious) of a polygon if the polygon is tiny and when you're also drawing
the borders around it. The border cover up the useful information. I suggest
we reduce the alpha of the border color from 100% (today), to say 10%.
For an example, see the difference between two maps of China below:


Border alpha 100% (the way it is today)

Border alpha 10 %

It's even more of a problem when running a global simulation with lots
of tiny polygons in it. I know you can turn off the borders but that's
not always the ideal solution.

Regards,
/Stefan


Stefan Edlund
Public Health and Computer Science Research
IBM Almaden Research Center 
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