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rinigus
2019-06-05 , 20:13
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So, according to that line of thought, as soon as you have two points (origin and destination), the route is calculated - no questions asked, no options taken. It becomes uncontrollable by users.
One bad side effect is if you were walking and then suddenly try to calculate walk path for 50 km journey. This will not be rejected (larger distances maybe) and your phone will get huge number of maneuvers. So, maybe on screen 2 we should have some kind of route type selection (above From/To)?
4th screen - agree with name change
Now, we should not think about all these pages as a line. Its a branching structure, with what's drawn as #4, being one of the pages behind map route view.
Few notes regarding navigation bar on #5. X is taken as a dismiss icon on SFOS and Linux. And it has the same meaning for Search, POIs, Nearby, and Navigation - the mode is dismissed. In case of navigation, it is dismissing just the mode and keeping route intact. I plan to drop the route as well in the future - I suggest not to keep the route after you escaped navigation mode. Its similar to other software and I have a feeling its an expected behavior.
Burger menu could be directly linked to Route options.
Navigation bar text could contain the mode (Car, ...), or current displayed maneuver, for example.
I don't like START on #5. I would suggest to add start button that is shown while on #5. Somewhere towards lower section of the screen (left or right). We can also have maneuvers button and then we don't need any link from Route page (maybe should stay Navigation). That navigation page also doesn't need to have link to Route options - these are available via navigation bar through burger menu (and maybe a title).
Note that in future, map scale will be moved to map itself or somewhere where it makes more sense.
What's not covered, are search along route and map layer. These functions should be available while not navigating, I think. In this respect, they can be positioned as buttons (like center, compass) in route overview map mode (page #5).
What's also possible is to have controls on lower panel, shown when you tap on it.
Whether we should keep upper panel clickable - not sure. But it will not cost anything and would keep current users happy.
While navigating (page #7), there is also a proposal to move speed to the right top. Only issue in that case would be finding location for a speed limit sign - which I do expect to be next to the speed.
As soon as we get these links sorted, we will have a pleasure to figure out what to do in landscape mode too. So, we can keep that on a back of the heads as well
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