New Mapzen Updates Make Editing Smoother and Faster
New Mapzen Updates Make Editing Smoother and Faster
We’ve taken on board a lot of feedback and made lots of fixes and updates to Mapzen which we think will make a significant difference to your editing experience. They’re aimed at helping you map more by providing even greater flexibility within Mapzen.
Here’s what we’ve added:
1. Easier to work in areas with lots of land use
It’s now a lot easier to work more accurately with land use and other areas, with the ability to turn their filling on or off to provide a clearer view of what you are putting a perimeter around when viewing the satellite imagery or background images.
2. Easier to align roads to satellite imagery
A new Hide/ Show Elements button has been added to the bottom of the editing window allowing you to quickly turn on / off elements to better see the background objects. This is really useful when trying to align roads to satellite imagery.
![all_elements_are_hidden[1]](http://blog.cloudmade.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/all_elements_are_hidden1.jpg "all_elements_are_hidden[1]")
3. More control when adding lines and areas
A much requested feature that you’ve all been waiting for. Now you can press ESC to cancel any editing made to shapes of lines and press ‘Enter’ to end editing with line types. This is really useful when adding new roads.
4. Mac Users: no more annoying zoom in / zoom out
If you have a magic mouse from Apple or use a MacBook touchpad you might have experienced sudden jumps in zoom level. If you have suffered this problem, you can now disable the ‘scroll’ function to prevent the map from accidentally zooming in or out.
![disable_scroll_touchpad[1]](http://blog.cloudmade.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/disable_scroll_touchpad1.jpg "disable_scroll_touchpad[1]")
We hope you’ll find these updates useful – please continue to email us feedback, it’s incredibly useful to help us evolve and improve Mapzen. Here’s how you can get in touch
- Leave a post in the Mapzen forums
- Report a bug on the Mapzen issue tracker
- Send us a mail to mapzen@cloudmade.com
- Get in touch with Nick, Yuliya or Anton through Mapzen
The next Mapzen blog post will look at some new features coming up in the April release of Mapzen Beta. Until then, if you don’t have a Mapzen account already, you can sign up for one and start using Mapzen here – happy mapping!
New Mapzen Updates Make Editing Smoother and FasterMarch 10th, 2010 - Posted by Paul Jarratt in cartography, cloudmade, maps, mapzen, news, openstreetmap, products | | 0 Comments
