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    EarlsCourtBrian

     

    The red route is I guess perfect for most people.  But 15% of males are color blind, the majority of those with red green deficiency. 

     This is unnecessarily unfriendly, as there are alternatives that can be used that will be as distinctive for people without color deficiency. (I cannot recall such a problem with Microsoft software, for example)

    Could you please change the route color, or better, provide the user with the ability to change the color within the settings menu?

    Regards
    Brian

     

     

     

     

    • CommentAuthorFree MemberTGD
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
     
    TGD
    Independent of the color of the route, the heavy, wide red route color covers the road names making it very difficult to see the road names.  The old method of using a thin blue line was much, much better.  It showed the route while allowing the name of the route to be visible.  Could we get the old method back?
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    EarlsCourtBrian

     

    The blue line was also better from the male color blind perspective.

     A thick line with transparency would provide a line that stands out (presumably why it has been changed), but still allowing the information on the road to be visible.

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    EarlsCourtBrian

     

    Aaargh.  And now the color used in the elevation graph compounds the color problem.

    GREAT new feature, providing color to show slope of elevation or descent, but why choose those colors?  Once again a large minority of male bike riders are color blind, finding discrimination between red and green difficult.

    Please provide different color choices, or allow users to modify the color palette in some way.

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    EarlsCourtBrian

     

    Comment re my previous post. Want to make clear this a minor point.  There is room for improvement, but the color confusion is mitigated by being elevation/descent.

    I'd not like my comment to overshadow the work done in making the improvement.  The continued improvements to this site ARE appreciated. 

     

    • CommentAuthorFree Membermhuk
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2009
     
    mhuk

    "The red route is I guess perfect for most people."

    Many UK roads are displayed in red on maps, which makes it hard to see a route that uses these roads/ crosses these type of roads. User selectable colours would be very useful.

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