Hello !

One of our team mates is suffering from daltonism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

It makes for him impossible to see the difference between Green and Yellow dots on the worldmap of radioactivity.
I imagine many other people suffer from this disease over the world and would be happy to change also some colour (maybe red and not yellow).

Sothat I ask if possible to choose either in the preferences of the project, or elswhere, the colour of dots.
Directly on the map would be well, since even Non-cruncher of the project can modify too.
It should stay by default Green/Yellow/Red, but for people who need it, they will be able to choose in a quite large range, the colours most suited for their eyes.

Thank you for them.

Regards,
Otax.

This web page:

> http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

--should be helpful.

Craig

Thanks Craig,

It works for standard pages, but for the map itself it is not possible.
Anyway, I will transfer your information.

Thanks again,
Regards,
Otax.

Otax's concerns are also mine, since I have differential red-green color blindness (which sometimes results in "retinal rivalry", making the border between adjacent colors vibrate).

Suggestions:

* Rendering the map's continents in gray scale would help everyone.

* It would also be easier for everyone to discern colors (or shades of gray) with slightly larger station icons/circles.

* I'm guessing that the 3 station colors are red, yellow and green. Since the normal background for a given station can vary considerably with local geology, construction materials (Chinese drywall!) and altitude, why not have the 3 colors (or shades) designate "near normal", "over 1.7x", and "over 3x normal" --instead of fixed ranges? (You could get fancy --calculating 2x and 3x the "standard deviation" for each station, but such factors serve Radiation Network well enough.)

* How about a legend for the station graphs? Am I supposed to read the red line or the more jagged blue line? Why are they different? What are all those little triangles about?

* Why (at the moment I'm looking at it, screen capture upon request) does station #8373's 24 hour average list at 0.11 uSv/hr in the box, while his graph clearly shows an average more like 0.17 uSv/hr? (A graph legend might make that clear, even to obtuse folks like myself.)

* Is "Add a sensor" where I begin joining the network, or is that for adding 2nd and 3rd sensors to an existing station/account (as I now suspect)? I don't see much by way of explanations there --or anywhere, and the Q&A search utility has so far found nothing that I've asked for --even when using single, mono-sylabic words.

* I think you/we need a section which "takes people by the hand", saying things like: "here's what equipment you need", "these are the brands and models of Geiger counters that we provide data cables and drivers for" (so I don't have to learn how to solder for the first time in my life), "these are our standards for placing and maintaining a Geiger counter", and "here are the steps --in order-- that you have to take in order to join and register your new station".

(Actually, I've been a soldering electronics technician for 60 years, which is why I'm apprehensive about those who'd be soldering for the first time.)


Craig (in Oregon, USA)

Thanks TJM.
This is a first way of getting another aspect.

bw = 1 , gives a black-grey-white option.
I guess it is possible to have another set of predefined colours with bw = 2, 3, 4, 5, sothat visually impaired project-mates could choose the set the more adapted to their handicap ?

Regards,
Otax.