Custom colours for tracks

[jamescoverdale]

The default colour choices for tracks are all 'pale' and are not very visible when overlaid on certain map types.

Ideally it would be nice to have a colour picker control when selecting track colour. Or even manual entry of a hex code in the settings?

[wladich]

It is a question of balance between functional richness and ease of use. I prefer ease of use.

When I created track drawing tool I carefully chose few colors with following considerations in mind:

1. They should obscure underlying map as little as possible
2. At least one color should look contrast on every map layer.

Do you have an example of a layer where all colors are poorly seen?

You can suggest to add few more colors - please provide samples of maps with overlaid tracks created in some drawing program (GIMP, PS, whatever). Please tell me if you want to do that and I will check what mixing parameters should be used.

[jamescoverdale]

Heres an example using the GB topo map

Which doesnt contrast very well, the best colour option is:

But i still find it hard to view. Obviously a colour picker would be the ideal solution for a user to choose their own custom colour, but may not be the easiest from a technical perspective.

The highlight when hovering over the track selection contrasts very well, maybe there is a way to allow that to be toggled?

Thanks for taking a look, love using the app!

[wladich]

IMO this variant looks acceptable:

I am against adding color picker or input field for hex values.
I think the following solution will be sufficient: in context menu add an item with title "More colors" which opens sub-menu or a dialog which allows to choose a color from a set of 20-30 colors.

[jamescoverdale]

Thanks, I think that would work quite well.

I'd prefer at least a couple of the extra colour choices be 100% opaque.

[wladich]

Another example of "difficult" map: https://nakarte.me/#m=11/60.53651/149.95857&l=M

Here user complains that he can not use more then one colours.