Taxiway Labeling

[waterman462]

Is there any way to increase the size and make bold font for the taxiway numbers in LNM?  Can't find anything in the settings for that and they are very small IMHO.  Possibly set taxiway numbers to the same font and minimum zoom level as the gate numbers? 

Other issue is that taxiway number seem to only be visible on one particular zoom setting - 0.25nm on the scale.  Zooming in closer makes them disappear while gate numbers are still visible.   

Second on wish list but probably unlikely:  The taxiway numbers don't appear very many places and it's actually hard to find them - any improvement on that score would be really nice. 

Edited July 17, 2024 by waterman462
Change of visibility due to zoom level

[albar965]

Taxiway labels can be resized here:

You can also set the overall map font on this options page.

Taxiway labels appear around 1.1 NM zoom distance here. Showing them earlier at higher zoom distance would clutter up the map. 

How many appear depends on the taxiway line network which depends on simulator and the airport developer. Especially in X-Plane it is partially a mess.

Maybe I can add an option for density in a future update. Have to see.

Alex

[Merzavets]

First of all, thank you for your great application!

On 7/18/2024 at 12:44 PM, albar965 said:

Taxiway labels can be resized here:

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I hate to write that but this doesn't work:

 

Labels and runway text scales OK, but not taxiways. Restarting of LNM did not help. What am I doing wrong? It will be great if I can enlarge this tiny letters, my 57yrs-old eyes will thank you to the rest of ages.

 

Thank you again.

 

[albar965]

4 hours ago, Merzavets said:

Labels and runway text scales OK, but not taxiways. Restarting of LNM did not help. What am I doing wrong? It will be great if I can enlarge this tiny letters, my 57yrs-old eyes will thank you to the rest of ages.

You disabled the LNM display of taxiways. What you see is the pre-rendered OpenStreetMap background map which I cannot change.

See here about map layers: https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/latest/en/MAPDISPLAY.html#map-layers

Alex

[Merzavets]

Thank you for quick and descriptive answer.

Here's another problem: I have no idea where I can enable the LNM display of taxiways and enable Foreground Map Layer. Cannot find respective menu item. Should I have any simulator installed to enable this?

I'm playing MSFS2020 exclusively on XBOX, and use your great soft as additional tool without any connection to XBOX.

Is it possible to load necessary data without full sim installation (download just zipfile with data or something) in a folder of choice and point to that folder in LNM settings? Or life is just simple and I should make just one click somewhere in LNM's menu?

Thank you again.

[albar965]

11 hours ago, Merzavets said:

Here's another problem: I have no idea where I can enable the LNM display of taxiways and enable Foreground Map Layer. Cannot find respective menu item. Should I have any simulator installed to enable this?

You will either need to install a simulator or, if you are using a remote computer, you will need to copy databases (https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/latest/en/NETWORK.html).

There is no menu item for airport features. You can find it in the options on page "Map labels":

 

The problem with the Xbox is that this is a locked down device which LNM cannot access. You need a full MSFS installation on a PC to load the airport data.

Alex