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      Lady Rover
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      Hi,

      as sailors we are interested in the wind shade and speed, geographic features like cliffs and bays are also helpful, we don't need the additional shoreside info with roads and the like when zooming further in.
      It would be much more helpful if one could keep the colour shade and associated map style also when zoomed in further
      Essentially a tick box which allows us to zoom in without the swap to a more detailed map would be great.

      Maybe that's something you could implement relative easily?

      Thanks,

      Franziska

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        idefix37 Sailor Moderator @Lady Rover
        last edited by idefix37

        @Lady-Rover
        I don't think increasing the zoom level of the Wind layer would actually increase the granularity of the data provided by weather models. This granularity is determined by the model resolution. For example, Windy default model has a resolution of 9 km. This means that even at a very high zoom, you wouldn't be able to obtain more detail. It is like a low-resolution image: a greater zoom simply increases the pixel size.

        Furthermore, in weather models, the effect of relief on wind speed is calculated by taking into account its integrated topographic model. However, this topographic model is quite coarse and smooths out the relief. So, it cannot reveal more detail if you zoom in.

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          Lady Rover @idefix37
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          @idefix37

          It's not about more details.

          I only would like to see the colour shade when zoomed in.

          I loose this when I zoom in on a bay.

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            idefix37 Sailor Moderator @Lady Rover
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            @Lady-Rover

            Could you show a screenshot of this bay ?

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              Lady Rover @idefix37
              last edited by

              @idefix37

              It's not on a specific place, it's essentially everywhere.
              If you zoom in you only see the wind animation, but not the colour overlay anymore.
              I would like to see the colour overlay on any zoom level.

              I'd love to add a screenshot, but don't see an option here to attach one.

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                idefix37 Sailor Moderator @Lady Rover
                last edited by idefix37

                @Lady-Rover

                To show screenshots in the message window

                1538826E-FA46-434B-A394-3FA4C3041D0E.jpeg

                1 On phone you might need to swipe these buttons to the left to make the RH ones visible.
                2 Click on this button to add a screenshot.

                If you zoom in you only see the wind animation, but not the colour overlay anymore.
                I would like to see the colour overlay on any zoom level.

                I know that we see only the wind animation at high zoom level. But you would not get more information about wind speed and direction at this high zoom level.

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                  Lady Rover @idefix37
                  last edited by

                  @idefix37 1000313017.jpg
                  This is showing the colour overlay.
                  Exactly what I like to see also when zoomed in further.

                  1000313018.jpg
                  This is zoomed further in. The colour overlay is gone.
                  But a lot of unneeded clutter added on land.

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                    idefix37 Sailor Moderator @Lady Rover
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                    @Lady-Rover

                    You can click on “Aerial” to replace the map details by a satellite view.
                    Anyway if it was possible to zoom in keeping the wind layer colors it would be uniformly amber as in your first screenshot.

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                      Lady Rover @idefix37
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                      @idefix37 it won't be uniformly amber when you slide the time slider. That's the whole point why I would like to have the coloured overlay and not only the wind animation.

                      Satellite view makes it worse. The outline of the zoomed out view is perfect, it's just ashame it gets replaced when zoomed in.

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