Once again, google maps changed the color palette. And once again, people are unhappy about it. The change is supposed to improve clarity on low-quality car displays. But it seems to make people with high-quality displays unhappy.
I say, that a single color map can't make everyone happy. Some people are color-blind, hence preferring "50 shades of gray". Other people see the colors but have a crappy display that can't distinctly show more than a few levels of gray, hence preferring "papagayo colors".
The solution is to let people to define their own palette per navigation type (no navigation, by car, by public transit, by foot, by bike,...) and share the palette configurations. This will take care of:
- eye and display imperfections,
- differences in the opinions of what type of information is important (if nothing else, it is reasonable to assume that this differs from one biome to another),
- personal preferences (when you are for years accustomed to one palette, you might prefer to stick to the palette, simply because your brain can navigate the old palette faster than the new one).
