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barryhunter
Classic tile colours?
Barry, is it possible to switch to the non-washed out tiles, a-la the UK road colouring workaround?
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/71063/getting-correct-uk-road-colours-in-google-maps-in-firefox
Kind of. Can do this: http://nearby.org.uk/google/new-uk-roads.php
It uses the Styled Map feature to colour the roads roughly as the UK scheme. But notice it does it worldwide :)
It was only a test, was never happy with the red A road colour its still a bit washed out. And B Roads still not coloured right.
I've added it ClassyGMap :) http://gokml.net/maps?t=u&ll=54.2354,-3.466&z=6
I dont know how long those 'legacy' tiles mentioned in that SO post will continue to be available, which is why reluctant to add that, but suppose could try it.
Just a follow up, as did some more research about the A road color.
It seems the styled map feature, can't differentiate between A (non-trunk), B roads and C roads - it calls them just 'Arterial'. Which is why they all orange. A roads are shown slightly thicker, but still white.
(Trunk A roads, and Motorways are differentiated and called 'Highway', which is why they can be coloured Green and Blue)
And the legacy tiles, does look like it colours A roads orange, while B and C roads are not differentiated and just shown in yellow.
There is a feature request for more complete breakdown, https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=5448
Suggest staring it! (A star counts as a vote!)
In reading that, notice that motorway sliproads are not catered for. they show in green, not blue. Not noticed that before.
Looks much better :)
Could you apply the legacy tiles to satellite view as well? :)
Hmmm, can do the same styling to the Satalite layer, http://nearby.org.uk/google/new-uk-roads2.php (works for Hybrid as well as Terrain and normal map mode :)
But would need the 'layer id' for the legacy Hybrid tileset, not sure myself how to find that. Would need someone to have saved it from before I guess. That optimap example and http://o.ht/GMaps/ both know how to contruct refernces to the old road map tiles, need the same task for the hybrid tiles.
If you know how to find hybrid tile refernces - or know someone who already done it, let me know!
Ahh, found it! Thanks to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23017766/google-maps-tile-url-for-hybrid-maptype-tiles
See: http://gokml.net/maps?t=l&ll=54.2354,-3.466&z=6
Thanks, again :)
The other huge benefits to the legacy tiles is the much improved contrast, sensible road widths, and getting trails and parking lots to display in satellite view.
found another issue :) apiv2 tiles are no longer updating, apiv3 needs to be used: http://mt0.googleapis.com/vt?lyrs=m@230000000&src=apiv2&hl=en-US&x=130982&y=87196&z=18 https://mts0.google.com/vt/lyrs=m@298169234&hl=en&src=apiv3&style=37%7Csmartmaps,%2059&x=130982&s=&y=87196&z=18&s=Galile The second one is up-to-date
Hmm, I just noticed the Legacy tiles no longer seem to work :(
The old tiles have updated their colour scheme. Both links in your post above, and http://optimap.co.uk/ itself, now have the new orange scheme. Grr
Affects the legacy hybrid tiles too.
back to the the styled maps version, however ugly that it is.
Sort of tangential to this thread, ... I've just rewritten the map styling code, from offering distinct new map types (in the map selector top right), to be a separate distinct "Map Style" dropdown.
As well as meaning its much easier to add more basemap styles, they also apply what ever mode you in, be it map, terrain, or satellite.
So can get the mostly working UK Road Style in Terrain and Satalite too.