Usability testing of legibility constraints

This study is part of the project “the Swedish Planning Portal” (Planeringsportalen). By using this portal a user (employed at companies or governmental/local authorities) should be able to find planning information and especially geographic information related to physical planning. To enable the user to download and view the geographic information web services (following the OGC standards) will be set up. As for maps in general, it is for a web based map service like a planning portal important that the presented information is as usable as possible. This means that is should be easy for the user to read and comprehend the maps. In the first version of the Swedish Planning Portal there will not be any real-time generalisation. But there will be access to data layers in several resolutions, and a major issue is to select the proper layers for a certain application.

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