Re:Show HN: An interactive map of countries by tap water qua...
by smayr on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:01AM
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Thanks for your thoughts! I'll try and make it easier to "explore the world" as you said, definitely going to remove the "zoom in". I initially tried to keep the data shown on the map compact to keep the page load time reasonable, I'll see what I can do!
So perhaps pull more information up to the top level? At least on desktop?
One pattern of use is "exploring the world". On desktop, this might involve clicking once to get the little popup, with a side-effect of unpredictably zooming and panning the map; then clicking again to get an info page; and then back page to return to the map. For every country of interest.
I wonder if this could be made lighter weight? The country outline is nicely highlighted upon mouseover. One might imagine adding much of the info page core content, somewhat abbreviated, to a slightly larger popup. And even showing that popup upon mouseover (with perhaps a delay, or mouse velocity tracking for intent). So then one might simply mouse move around the world, seeing water quality, bottle availability, etc, and able to more easily spot "oh that's neat".