When zooming in or out, it isn't clear if anything is loading. about harp.gl HOT 8 CLOSED

It seems like a good idea for themes to be able to style the map content as well as the tile-not-loaded-yet content.

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Oh! Another thing: by default, the background color of space is the same color as the globe, so in this case even the globe is invisible if no tiles have loaded yet and we've zoomed all the way out and expect to see a sphere. A good default would be two different colors.

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@trusktr, thanks for reporting this bug, we have a BackgroundDataSource that could handle this. See the method addGroundPlane in the TileGeometryCreator. It should be easy to add texture coordinates and a texture to these tiles as google / apple maps do this, and have this hook up to the style so that this can be configured. I will let the team now and we can look to this, I agree that this should help to provide a better sense of where the user is.

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That's great that I can configure it, thanks! 👍 A default would be great, so it doesn't give the impression nothing's happening.

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That might be a good example of what an underlying default layer could look like (but the colors would be beautified for the default experience): https://www.harp.gl/docs/master/examples/#datasource_custom.html

Then any user's custom tiles would load on top (or something). This way there would always be feedback when interacting with the map, especially on slow connections.

(In fact, in that example I thought I had to wait for something: I thought the white tiles with red lines were default tiles for that particular example, so I was waiting and waiting, but then I realized that the red lines were the example.)

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@trusktr , thanks for the added feedback. Have created internal task HARP-9401 so that one of our developers can pick it up if they have time.

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Oh! Another thing: by default, the background color of space is the same color as the globe.

Yeah, the BackgroundDataSource sets the tiles to be the clear color specified in the Theme, which would probably explain your observation. It isn't possible to style them differently, it would need a separate entry in the Theme to allow this, as you mention above.

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