[mkgmap-dev] night-mode styling

Sun Sep 13 12:24:15 BST 2009

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try my luck on them.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Clinton Gladstone
<clinton.gladstone at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2009, at 6:30, maning sambale wrote:
>
>> I am trying to create a nightmode styling for my osm-ph gps maps. A
>> good inspiration are radarmaps:
>> http://justin.everett-church.com/ymaps/radarMaps.html
>
> Just out of interest, would it not be better to use primarily red
> colours in a night mode style? (As opposed to the greens in the
> radarmaps example.) For example, some astronomy programs (I'm thinking
> of Stellarium specifically), have a night mode which displays
> everything in muted red, as this apparently does not affect the night
> sensitivity of eyes as much as other colours of light. I do not know
> how much of a practical difference this makes though.
>
> In a similar vein, I found that when developing night styles, that it
> was best to use as few solid colours for areas as possible, and as few
> bright colours as possible in order to limit the amount of light
> projected from the GPS unit. With too much light, in otherwise very
> dark surroundings, it would take a few seconds for my eyes to readjust
> after looking at the GPS unit.
>
> Cheers.
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