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by s1artibartfast 1326 days ago
Very interesting data but infuriating UI.

With so much heat map display, why is there no key? For wind, red/purple are counterintuitively lower speed than orange and yellow?

Also, who do so many applications force oblique views?

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> Also, who do so many applications force oblique views?

I'm able to adjust it by dragging with two fingers on my trackpad, which I think is the standard behavior for that (albeit hard to discover). But I do agree, it's weird for that to be the default.

There's also probably no key because the colors are mostly transparent, so it would be hard to make a key easy to understand. Labelling the contour lines seems like a reasonable approach imo.

Interesting, I don't get Contour labels on mine, so I have to continually reposition to get a sense of the magnitude