Rainer Simon
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Rainer Simon
@aboutgeo.bsky.social
A collector of things worth knowing and things not worth knowing. Freelance software developer. Web/UI/Maps/Visualization/Image Annotation/Open Source. https://rainersimon.io
It actually works pretty well on mobile, too! With the caveat that – like Isla de Muerta – the 14th annotation can only be found by those who already knew where it was.

Hint: you have to hit the little marker before "prevented". The rest is buried below the other, shorter annotations above.
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Not yet! :-) I'll still hold off for a bit with posting the "solution". But it is a tricky edge case that's, frankly, not at all solved in the current system. (Hint: you *can* find the 14th annotation on a desktop PC if you explore carefully. But on touch, it's pretty much impossible.)
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
So, the caveat: the demo has 14 annotations total. Can you find them all?

There's an edge case I haven't cracked yet. It makes one particular annotation difficult (and unintuitive) to select. If you spot it (or don’t!), I’d love to hear what you think.
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Could be a solution. But I think it may also become hard to navigate quickly with more overlaps – plus also a potential accessibility pitfall. (A11y-wise, underlines should actually be pretty ok I believe.)
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Could be a solution. But I think it will also become hard to navigate quickly – plus also a potential accessibility pitfall. (A11y-wise, underlines should actually be pretty ok I believe.)
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thanks! Do you mean their alignment viewer? (E.g. pubs.perseids.org/bodin/). It's a good reference, but I think only uses highlights to visually connect passages – which means it wouldn't have any of the "hard" issues, with overlaps and stacked annotation layers. Or did you think of another tool?
bodin
pubs.perseids.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
And it's not even because of one of your texts this time 😀 (well, the ever-classic sample text still is a nod back to that time, of course!) But, yes: if we ever manage to come up with a truly great solution for super-dense/-complex annotation, we'd surely have to name that release after you ;-)
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM