Suggestion talk:20071220 Show Footprints on Map

I was thinking that changing the description to 2 letter abbreviations would make it easier to read. IE, "You see footprints exiting N, NE, SE, SW, and W" and "You see footprints entering from the NW, NE, E, and S." When it's spelled out my eyes tend to glaze over it, but abbreviations are easy for me to take in. It's what I'm used to in most adventure games. I think pretty much everyone recognizes those abbreviations, so I don't think it would confuse anyone. --Ms.Panes 23:18, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Good idea. I'm working on a Greasemonkey extension to handle this, and that idea would be very easy to roll into it- and in fact makes the job a bit easier.  Swiers 01:24, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

As the first step in my work, I did a script that just abbreviates things as you suggested. It works pretty nice, and if nothing else, removes a bit of screen clutter in cases where there are 6-7 paths leading in each direction. You can get it at http://www.urbandead.info/seb_wiers/ShowFootprints3.user.js -- Swiers 06:22, 21 December 2007 (UTC)