This made me feel sick in 5 seconds.
Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
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Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#142I don't really know why, but the thought of my (elderly) mother using this made me laugh almost as hard as the El Risitas guy[1]. I adore it, and it also should never ever be used in any car GPS scenario. It's far too distracting, and puts far too much emphasis on the places you are not going. I could see it being useful for a more exploratory style of map, however. Games like Pokemon Go come to mind as a place where…
> far too much emphasis on the places you are not going
I have this issue with literally every modern nav system. They all make their fundamental display a line marked on a map, and most of the information on that map is irrelevant.
More than 20 years ago I had some kind of Verizon flip-open phone with a QWERTY keyboard. No idea what model, but it had this fabulous nav interface that just showed big arrows showing your next two turns and a schematic diagram of what the next turn would look like. I wish I could get something like that, but with Google's data as the back end.
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#143Does anyone else hate how Google Maps zooms in right before a turn?
Yeah go ahead and completely change the scale of what I’m looking at a night quite predictable time just as I’m about to need the map the most to make a turn on a street I’m not familiar with
Absolutely fucking brilliant idea
This is why I use Apple Maps and thankfully in the Bay Area it’s more than at parity, it’s frankly better
All that said, this UI is actually awesome - just needs a little tweaking for the turn animation but I’d 100% use this - incredibly intuitive
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is exactly why on traditional gps maps I prefer it to be very very zoomed out. It's far too common that mapping tools make something like a sudden second turn invisible to you until it is too late to switch lanes.
I find that Apple Maps is typically pretty smart with its automatic zoom. For a typical intersection with just one turn to navigate, it will zoom in to give you a good sense of the lanes, stop signs/lights, etc. But when there are consecutive turns to navigate, or a heavily curved section of road (like highway on-ramps) it will zoom out and even rotate the map to show that upcoming context.
I have had an occasional problem where a large building ends up blocking my view, but in general it’s very good.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#145First time I saw this idea was Berg's "Here and There" poster from 2009 (a year before Inception) though they acknowledge a bunch of earlier inspirations... https://berglondon.com/blog/2009/05/04/here-there-influences...
For me it was Halo: Combat Evolved
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#146Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#147As a side effect, this is a neat way to visualize Gaussian splatting! As you go further away from the main navigation route, the quality of the rendering continuously degrades, until it eventually becomes sparse ellipsoids (i.e., you can see the individual splats).
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#148I think this takes the record for top thing that I expected to be wildly unintuitive and turns it to be incredibly intuitive. I absolutely love this and want it for real. It gives me a road view and an aerial view and transitions smoothly. Needs polish and to somehow be accessible in seconds for everywhere but I would default settings this in my car if it was there.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#149Neat!
Not sure if this is meant to be practical, but I think this would work better if the upcoming turn was centered in the view once it’s within a certain range, as a kind of anticipation. This helps prepare for the jarring shift in perspective and, in case there’s multiple turns in short succession (as there might be when exiting a highway, for instance), gives you a visual heads-up about what’s next.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#150Navigation needs to be low cognitive overhead to have mass appeal. There's a reason why people do not navigate with satellite or photo real maps. This is an interesting projection and visualization but doesn't have much practical value.