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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
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Apple Maps got really good at some point! I once pick it by accident for navigation, and never went back to Google Maps.
It’s unusable in Sydney, Australia.
It might be fine for pure navigation to addresses but business addresses and other metadata are often missing or out of date because people only bother to update Google Maps. Also that’s where all the reviews are.
I don’t want to use two different apps for navigation vs finding businesses.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#153Insanely cool. Good job!
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#154This is pure Bret-Victorian magic. Really the greatest single notational/visualization I have seen in a long long time. Wow. I'm so in love.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#155This 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.
I had similar thoughts, but this is a largely solved problem: even headlights in my Volvo turn as I turn the wheel, and it should be easy to change rendering direction to an "average" of road tangents for the next say 50m (would depend on the speed and would need experimenting to know the best value).
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple Maps got really good at some point! I once pick it by accident for navigation, and never went back to Google Maps.
It’s unusable in Sydney, Australia. It might be fine for pure navigation to addresses but business addresses and other metadata are often missing or out of date because people only bother to update Google Maps. Also that’s where all the reviews are. I don’t want to use two different apps for navigation vs finding businesses.
Since the last time I tried, Apple Maps has come down from plotting some 30 petrol stations in the Sydney CBD to 2. There are in fact none.
Apart from needing to copy and paste destination addresses from Google/Google Maps every time I use Apple Maps, it's great.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#157Great idea and demo. My main gripe when using Google Maps in the car is lack of information about the next turns — when do I change lanes, and to which one? This could be natively addressed here, especially if the blue navigation line was a little thinner and showed which lane(s) the driver needs to take.
I find these comments fascinating. Do people just switch off and become completely incapable of using the road when using GPS? You can use navigation and your ability to use roads, read road signs etc at the same time!
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#158I already have it (minus the "realistic rendering") in my old car navigation...
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#159Carsick simulator. Cool otherwise.
Re: Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is also a problem with Google Maps navigation. It is always showing the perspective looking straight ahead of your current direction, even when you're approaching a sharp turn. Instead, the perspective should be along a vector connecting your current location with the point where the navigation's path crosses the edge of the display, pointing straight up.
Took me a while to figure out what you're saying, now I assume you're using the "up is direction of motion"? I use map view / north is up, which makes it reasonably easy to get he big picture - I encourage everybody to try it :).
>"up is direction of motion"
Yes, this is how it's currently implemented. My proposal is "up is the intersection of the path with the edge of the screen". Here's a mock comparison of the current behavior with my proposal: https://i.imgur.com/AmUnzfS.jpeg (The mocked perspective is wrong because I just cut out and rotated the image, but hopefully you get the idea)
