Touring style: Cycle paths in night mode hardly visible

[scaidermern]

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Touring style in night mode:	OsmAnd style in night mode:

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OsmAnd Version: 4.8.6

[sonora]

I'm not sure what a good solution is. The contrast used in Touring view is consistent with that of other tracks across most map situations. Choosing a brighter color creates contrast issues in frequent situations where cycle tracks lead along highways, compare these screenshots of Touring View vs. OsmAnd.

Overall, I am not sure how much priority should be really given to cycle paths in night view. Probably, they should definitely not outshine other routes more regularly viewed and used with a night view?

[scaidermern]

Overall, I am not sure how much priority should be really given to cycle paths in night view.

With the bicycle profile being enabled, they should get a high priority I guess. The styles are profile-aware, aren't they?

[scaidermern]

But maybe it's just my phone's display that is currently dying 😕

[sonora]

Let me know if it's a real showstopper for you also on a new device. I hardly have a use case for the bicycle profile in night mode... 😉 Also: We need to look at the situation at night. What seems as too low contrast in daylight is sometimes the right contrast in darkness.

Yes, you can make features of a map style profile-dependent. I have always kept this to a minimum, as it complicates the code, all testing, and the user perception of what's going on if too many things like colors not only change between day/night but also between profiles...

Probably there is some middle ground in lighting the cyclepath/cycleway/etc. color some for the bike profile at night, but not too much to create the effect I demonstrate above. Main effort after coding is finding/testing the right nuance. And surprisingly, things have been like this for some 10 years now, never drew any feedback so far ... (but not saying you are wrong 😉)

[scaidermern]

I'll check again when I have a replacement device. Will probably take about two weeks since I'm currently on vacation 🙂

[sonora]

No rush, my vacation is coming up next, too!

[mikehgentry]

For what it's worth I use night mode for cycling sometimes (in the day!), higher contrast can make it easier to read in bright sunlight.

[sonora]

Thanks for the heads-up! So how would you rate the cyclepath and cycleway contrast on average, is it sufficient?

PS: We use the same or even a little less night contrast for 'tracks', which are also used by bicycle. So it seems that if we decided to change something, we probably should make more widespread adjustments...

[mikehgentry]

I will test that properly at some point when the sun reappears (which could be a while! #British problems)

[sonora]

I have brightened the night cycleway night color by ten percentage points - perhaps that does the trick! 😉