overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer — Issue #532: Feature request: Possibility to rotate maps
Author: jaahaavi
Created: 2011-11-10 09:18:00+00:00
State: open

I have new feature proposal for Overviewer: possibility to rotate maps.
WHY: By rotating (90-degrees steps) map it's possible to see what's behind big buildings, mountains and structures. Also then it's possible to see building's and structures from other sides.

HOW: It could be enabled by adding e.g. --enable-map-rotate in commandline options. When this command is enabled, Overviewer should create maps from all four directions and save those to different directories (I think Overviewer has this --north-direction already, so only major change would be to change saving pngs or jpgs to different directories). Also that index.html must be different, there should be added rotate left and rotate right buttons which changes and of course that compass should point in correct direction when map is rotated.

The only bad thing with rotating maps is that map data takes four times more hard disk space and takes four times longer to create that map data.

example of map rotating in google and bing maps in birds eye view:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/keir.clarke/web/birdseyeview.htm