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Usability Improvements

A couple issues were noted by folks, where accidental clicks (or screen touches on mobile) caused some things with the surf chart to go haywire.

Before, any clicks out of the surf zone would display and empty chart. Now, one of two things will happen:

• -If there is surf anywhere on the map but outside the search circle, the circle will move to the nearest spot with surf.
• -If you are panning to a different area on the map and click somewhere with no surf anywhere in the view, the search circle and graph will keep the previous location/data.

With these changes, I streamlined a bit of the code that helps responsiveness when the map is zoomed out on slower devices (like my older android phone). A couple other changes I made should help the map load slightly quicker as well.

 

Data Irregularities

Previously, the application would query the map and try to find the nearest spot to the actual click point. This would sometimes report a couple of outlier data points with inconsistent data. Now the search circle will look for the maximum heights within its circumference. This produces more reliable time charts that better match the data displayed on the map.

 

-Eric