newm VS openlayers_indoor_map

There's a Wayland compositor called Newm [0] that uses a similar approach [1].

0: https://github.com/jbuchermn/newm?tab=readme-ov-file

I think newm can do that but it's still in alpha stage

I'm pretty sure it's not possible through sway. One project I'm keeping an eye on is newm.

I don't know if that's exactly what you're looking for, but you could try newm

If you are looking for ease of devolopment, you can try doing it using python based WMs: QTILE(Xorg) or maybe this https://github.com/jbuchermn/newm/(Wayland, new project)

We've gotten cool stuff like BSPWM, Openbox, Sway, and Qtile, so I'm curious what y'all folks would be interested in seeing or maybe even working on. I've been doing my Pantheon shenanigans and might start a git to see if I can put something together there (even if it's just a script or something), but I wanna try something using the newm compositor because A) it's probably gonna be easier and B) I think it's got a cool newfangled sorta approach to window management that's the right kind of weird for EndeavourOS.

You probably know this, but in Google Maps at least, you can use browser zoom (ctrl/cmd +/-) to change the size of labels without zooming into the actual map.

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Speaking of maps, I got to work a fun zoom project a few years ago: https://map.fieldmuseum.org/

We used https://openlayers.org/ and thought long and hard about how to best handle zooming and variable levels of information density & visual hierarchy. If you zoom all the way out, we just highlight where the building is relative to the surroundings. As you start to zoom in, we start to highlight major exhibitions and entrances. Then as you zoom in more, we start showing recommended paths, smaller exhibitions, etc. The label sizes try to scale up and down at each level, smoothly, in order to balance readability and density.

Eventually you can reach the max zoom level and the labels will just grow bigger and bigger, but the SVGs dynamically shrink so they remain pictograms and not just contextless-lines.

Then if you keep going, you eventually find microscopic easter eggs :)

The code is pretty jank (and abandoned), but it's FOSS vanilla JS/HTML/CSS, and the only dependency is on OpenLayers: https://github.com/arcataroger/openlayers_indoor_map

I have found a few Javascript libraries that work with canvas elements that might do the trick, but that is to make a map that is not overlaid on an actual geographic map. If the latter is what you want, openlayers is probably the way to go. There is an abandoned project on GitHub that does an overlay: https://github.com/arcataroger/openlayers_indoor_map

After a few months of work, and with help from this community and many others, we've open-sourced an indoor venue map we built using OpenLayers and QGIS: openlayers_indoor_map