For those of you interested in the technical aspects of map-drawing...
If anyone would like to try their hand at building us some new mapping icons for this sort of thing, or simply improving our existing icons, then please be aware of our current definitions... Our existing mapping icons are 36x36 pixels and are stored in separate .BMP files. You can specify "transparent" portions of the images by using the exact color Magenta [RGB(255,0,255)]. In the future, I expect to be able to increase the number of pixels available to produce cleaner icons, but I have to balance that with what they look like when zoomed out to a very small scale (for large-area maps). I haven't tested the new code with different pixel sizes yet either, and every icon in the map will need to be consistently-sized, and larger sizes will make maps a bit slower to display and take more on-line bandwidth and memory, just in case you were getting any grand ideas.
Good luck, and show off your ideas to all of us here so we can all comment on them.
If anyone would like to try their hand at building us some new mapping icons for this sort of thing, or simply improving our existing icons, then please be aware of our current definitions... Our existing mapping icons are 36x36 pixels and are stored in separate .BMP files. You can specify "transparent" portions of the images by using the exact color Magenta [RGB(255,0,255)]. In the future, I expect to be able to increase the number of pixels available to produce cleaner icons, but I have to balance that with what they look like when zoomed out to a very small scale (for large-area maps). I haven't tested the new code with different pixel sizes yet either, and every icon in the map will need to be consistently-sized, and larger sizes will make maps a bit slower to display and take more on-line bandwidth and memory, just in case you were getting any grand ideas.
Good luck, and show off your ideas to all of us here so we can all comment on them.