What’s that oddly multi colored vertical stripe,
Looks like a television test pattern. Like you see at 4AM.
Or like a printing test pattern, that you see if you completely unfold a (soy)milk carton.
But I bet it is some kind of visual aid, to help separate each search result.
Maybe a mouseover balloon could be added, saying what it’s all about.
Or maybe it’s the new trend, but nobody “hipped” me to it yet.
In fact it seems slightly triangular, narrower at the top.
If you would include wider screenshot with markers on map with the same colors, where colour matches search results and marker.
Here’s an example of the search results:
Given the space available, I think that the developers of these changes have done a really good job of showing which search result corresponds to which pin on the map.
The points are also highlighted on hover.. If you select the off-screen one the viewport moves, and if you go back in the browser “back” works too.
The grey bit overlaying the colored boxes is the slider to scroll the window, for whatever reason in your browser it is displayed on top instead of on the side.
In any case you should read @Minh_Nguyen regular posting What’s new on the OpenStreetMap website? - #17 by Minh_Nguyen to stay up to date with changes to the website.
Well In the original search link I posted you will see there is only one marker. Without a mouseover explaining such an advanced feature, new users will not necessarily figure it out.
Yes I am saying in my links’ initial state there is only one marker, and the user would have to zoom out before things start making sense.
I guess it’s either „zoom to most relevant result“ or „zoom to show all results“, and you can’t have both at the same time.
For a user (and in my opinion) it’s probably best if the zoom shows the most relevant result.
Having color-coded results at least helps to show that there might be more and to distinguish them after manually zooming out.
