non-solid matte

[incanus]

We should consider a non-solid matte for better context. Consider Apple Maps's grid:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/575564/matte.mov

[kkaefer]

Yes

[incanus]

@kkaefer how tough is this to hit? Should this be manually drawn somehow or just have a texture used repetitively?

[incanus]

Bump on this. @kkaefer is this difficult? I'm hesitant to just put a texture in there for performance reasons, so I don't know best approach here. But with a blank map, stalls give the appearance of no interaction, when really panning, zooming, and rotating are still working.

[ajashton]

:/

If we must can it be suuuper subtle? The apple grid is gross.

[incanus]

Yeah, we can make it very light. We can double back on this later. I think it's important for a demo, though.

[ansis]

-js preloads a couple tiles at much lower zoom levels that get overscaled a ton to fill gaps when panning and zooming. I'm not sure if they provide helpful context, or if overscaling looks terrible.

[incanus]

I think I mostly have this working if I can just get an image into the sprite. @edenh @nickidlugash what process are we using to add assets to the sprite currently?

[incanus]

This is working pretty well in this branch with a correct sprite image. We'll work on a more refined version with major/minor gridlines next.

[incanus]

Done in #301.