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Re: Tiny World Map

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I woule adjust city density based on surroundings. I remember getting lost in Maps.me while in northern Russia: zooming out will not display any tiny villages of the area whereas zooming in will not place any of those on the screen. So you got a blank slate.

Meanwhile, displaying every suburb of a metropolis possessing a town status may be superfluous.

Re: Tiny World Map

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I woule adjust city density based on surroundings. I remember getting lost in Maps.me while in northern Russia: zooming out will not display any tiny villages of the area whereas zooming in will not place any of those on the screen. So you got a blank slate. Meanwhile, displaying every suburb of a metropolis possessing a town status may be superfluous.

Interesting comment. I guess it should be optimised for density uniformity somehow.

Re: Tiny World Map

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I was unable to find Easter Island.

Yes, many of the islands are missing even if they have labels (e.g. Faroe Islands). It would be nice if there was just a blob there at least.

Re: Tiny World Map

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I was unable to find Easter Island.

Yes, many of the islands are missing even if they have labels (e.g. Faroe Islands). It would be nice if there was just a blob there at least.

Agreed. I get that there has to be a trade off between size and coverage, but if it's a map it should really have the option - at least - for the person implement it to choose density. Personally, I'd want every island to be at least shown as a blob.

Re: Tiny World Map

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I was unable to find Easter Island.

Yes, many of the islands are missing even if they have labels (e.g. Faroe Islands). It would be nice if there was just a blob there at least.

I noticed the islands too (apparently only islands above a certain size "qualify" - of the Canary Islands you only get Gran Canaria and Tenerife, of the Galapagos Islands only Isabela, of the Azores - nothing), but all European "microstates" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_microstates) are also not shown, some of them (Liechtenstein, San Marino) not even as labels.

Re: Tiny World Map

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I woule adjust city density based on surroundings. I remember getting lost in Maps.me while in northern Russia: zooming out will not display any tiny villages of the area whereas zooming in will not place any of those on the screen. So you got a blank slate. Meanwhile, displaying every suburb of a metropolis possessing a town status may be superfluous.

You can always zoom to a level such that there's nothing there. And if all that is there is a few small villages, then "nothing there" isn't far of the mark anyway.

If you include smaller cities to 'fill in blank spaces', then either:

a) You'd have to drop a bigger city/suburb elsewhere. Not display a 1M town to be able to display a 10k town in thinly populated area elsewhere? Hmmm...

b) Or the app get bigger. Which defeats the purpose of having a tiny world map.

Want more detail? Just use some other app.

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