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Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

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Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

#21
post #18

looks cool. But estimating distances is hard, as is estimating road size. You can only plan one straight line ahead, and there's no "glance how many blocks before I make a left turn". Now it's "scan and process the entire straight terrain section with eyes recognizing crossings to get the count" Alternatively, I'll have to task switch all the time to it to not miss on the turn. Some hybrid map visual overlay that mak…

Also any points shown (e.g. destination, POIs) that are more than a few degrees away from straight ahead appear to be next to you, but following you which is quite confusing.

Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

#24

At first I thought this was a cool gimmick, but this seems like it would be really helpful. You get to see the angle of the curve from the driver's perspective and the overhead view at the same time!

I think it could be useful in really dense exchange hubs when you don't clearly see which lane you have to take.

Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

#26
post #8

Mine gets stuck at loading 90%.

The traffic right now is insane, 200 people trying the demo at the same time :\

Isn't it just static files? Use a cdn like cloudflare or AWS CloudFront or depending on size - if you can break it into chunks of like 50mb each, GitHub pages (free)

200 people or 100k people wouldn't matter then, it'll be cached.

It will also make the download based almost entirely on client download speed.

Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

#27
This is a really good proof of concept. I would use this.

Something about the moment of the turn itself isn’t working for me though. Just before the turn you have essentially no information about the route ahead, until after the turn is completed. This would make a sequence of consecutive turns difficult to navigate.

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