Zooming

[Merlin1392 0]

On last week's GeoGearHead's show  I learned a few more things that I really like about Cachly.  As a relative new user, I'm getting to like it more and more. However, there's one feature I don't know if there's a way to deal with. Zooming. When I want to zoom in, it's usually to get a better read on the roads and features in and around the cache location. As I zoom in, I get about a 2second large view and then the screen "snaps" back to a small text view, but less overall area displayed. Is there a way to keep the text large? Some of us are getting more visually challenged and need to actually read road signs.  Thanks

[barefootguru 67]

Yeah, Cachly's map and Apple Maps are the 2 worst places for small text for me 

It's a workaround, but iOS can show a magnifying glass on the screen:

http://www.wikihow.com/Magnify-Your-iOS-Device-with-Accessibility-Zooming

 

[Nic Hubbard 650]

5 hours ago, Merlin1392 said:

Is there a way to keep the text large?

This is highly dependent on which map you are using. Can you let me know which one it is?

[Attila_G 15]

Same problem here. I use the offline map "Switzerland" but it happens on the standard Google map too.

[Nic Hubbard 650]

1 minute ago, Attila_G said:

Same problem here. I use the offline map "Switzerland" but it happens on the standard Google map too.

No, there sadly isn't a way to dynamically make the font larger for these. Apple Maps will use the iOS accessibility settings and make the font sizes larger.

In the future we are looking at making this possible for our offline maps.

[barefootguru 67]

In Settings > Display & Brightness > Text Size you can bump up the slider to make the street names on Apple's map more legible (both the Maps app and Apple Maps option within Cachly).  Unfortunately iOS increases the font size everywhere… I'd rather it only increased the tiny fonts.

[Nic Hubbard 650]

13 minutes ago, barefootguru said:

In Settings > Display & Brightness > Text Size you can bump up the slider to make the street names on Apple's map more legible (both the Maps app and Apple Maps option within Cachly).  Unfortunately iOS increases the font size everywhere… I'd rather it only increased the tiny fonts.

If we added an option in Cachly to change the text size of maps it would ONLY be able to affect our offline maps. All other maps are either raster tiles (images that are already created) or controlled by iOS, as in Apple Maps.

[barefootguru 67]

That would suit me… at least until I age a few more years   And it's a 'minimum offline map font size=x' I'm after.

[Bärenkatapult 1]

Hi there,

ist there any news on this feature request? I really would appreciate a minimum font size on offline maps. No need for other map types 

Thanks,
Stefan

[Nic Hubbard 650]

54 minutes ago, Bärenkatapult said:

ist there any news on this feature request? I really would appreciate a minimum font size on offline maps. No need for other map types

Yes, with Premium Offline Maps you can make the text larger if you change the text size in iOS. So, if you change the iOS Setting for text size you will see that reflected in our maps.