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Tim Dawson
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I'm working on this issue at the moment, with some help from Jules above. While I am hoping to improve the selection of towns in our Swiss chart, I thought I would post a screenshot showing what the SkyDemon chart would look like with ALL the towns from the Swiss ICAO chart displayed. Most would probably agree that it is a mess, and not very usable.
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Tim Dawson
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Our latest Switzerland chart, released earlier this week, has an entirely new set of town features, more closely matching those selected by the authors of the Swiss ICAO chart. Big thanks to Jules above for doing a lot of the work to make this happen.
Feedback on this thread would be much appreciated.
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Adam Erchegyi
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+xOur latest Switzerland chart, released earlier this week, has an entirely new set of town features, more closely matching those selected by the authors of the Swiss ICAO chart. Big thanks to Jules above for doing a lot of the work to make this happen.
Feedback on this thread would be much appreciated. I don't see a difference, to be honest. I checked 3 random points: Horw, Weesen & Rorschach (see my previous comment). None of them are there. Your last screenshot might look like a mess, but I kinda like it 
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Tim Dawson
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If you like that, it's unlike we can do anything for you.
However, there is a big difference between the last chart from the beginning of October, and the current one from the end of October, at both 500k and 350k zoom scales. Horw and Weesen are now in our data but not visible on the chart due to their proximity to other nearby towns, Rorschach I cannot find anywhere.
Looking at both charts side by side there are a large number of towns now visible that were not before; the selection has changed significantly.
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Adam Erchegyi
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+xHorw and Weesen are now in our data but not visible on the chart due to their proximity to other nearby towns sorry, that's not being helpful. They were also available via search earlier. If they are still not displayed "due to their proximity to other nearby towns", what has exactly changed? Rorschach is there via search as well: 
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Tim Dawson
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What has changed is most of the towns present in the Swiss chart.
The street address search is provided by iOS and Android, that is not chart data.
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Adam Erchegyi
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+xWhat has changed is most of the towns present in the Swiss chart.
The street address search is provided by iOS and Android, that is not chart data. Tim, that's a technical/implementation detail. As a user, I don't really mind where my data is coming from. What's important is to make these reporting points visible/searchable, regardless of the source.
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julesair
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+x+xOur latest Switzerland chart, released earlier this week, has an entirely new set of town features, more closely matching those selected by the authors of the Swiss ICAO chart. Big thanks to Jules above for doing a lot of the work to make this happen.
Feedback on this thread would be much appreciated. I don't see a difference, to be honest. I checked 3 random points: Horw, Weesen & Rorschach (see my previous comment). None of them are there. Your last screenshot might look like a mess, but I kinda like it @Adam If you prefer to have all waypoints shown on the chart independent of zoom level you can import them as user waypoints in Skydemon. I used them like that before Tim updated the map, but its a bit messy when zoomed out to much. I prefer the selective display Skydemon uses. Data is attached to this reply. You can directly import it, or if you want to choose the symbol shown on the map use an AI agent to restructure the gpx into the below shape for each item. Check the supported symbol names in Skydemon. <wpt lat="47.3769" lon="8.5417">
<name>Rorschach</name>
<sym>Red Dot</sym>
</wpt>
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julesair
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+xIf you like that, it's unlike we can do anything for you.
However, there is a big difference between the last chart from the beginning of October, and the current one from the end of October, at both 500k and 350k zoom scales. Horw and Weesen are now in our data but not visible on the chart due to their proximity to other nearby towns, Rorschach I cannot find anywhere.
Looking at both charts side by side there are a large number of towns now visible that were not before; the selection has changed significantly. @Tim Some towns do not appear even when I zoom in completely. E.g. I can fully zoom into Weesen such that no single other town is in the display area, but the symbol and label for Weesen still do not appear. Is the algorithm to decide if a town is displayed or not maybe a bit too aggressive? I would expect that every town in the dataset would appear at some point? Apart from that I really like using the new map for planning and navigation. Thank you for addressing this feature/data request :-)
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julesair
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+xsorry, that's not being helpful. They were also available via search earlier. If they are still not displayed "due to their proximity to other nearby towns", what has exactly changed? These two issues, from the initial post in this thread, have been addressed:
1) There are places listed in SkyDemon that are not on the ICAO chart.
2) There are places on the ICAO chart _not_ listed on SkyDemon.
#1 is fully solved. There is no town/city on the Skydemon map, that does not appear on the official ICAO chart of Switzerland
#2 is almost solved. Some towns are not shown if their proximity is too close to other, bigger towns.
(Mountain peaks have not been synced)
What else were you hoping for?
Remark: Rorschach is an unfortunate example, because my automation to extract the locations in the icao chart failed on that one and a few others that are displayed in yellow as urban area. Tim has the updated dataset now and will update the Skydemon map. If you find any other places missing, let me know.
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