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2018-08-24
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2018-08-24
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2018-08-24
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2018-08-24
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[*]The application crashed on the first search. It took a while, as OSM Scout searches always do, so I took that opportunity to swipe to Home screen to check something and... Pure Maps took that opportunity to crash. Without saving my preferences. The second time I left it finish the search without disturbing it and it was fine.
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2018-08-24
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2018-08-24
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@ Earth
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2018-08-24
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2018-08-24
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There are a few things I am missing since Poor Maps, so I'll just list them here as you seem to be full of energy still.
- I've always found the options confusing in the way they are organized. I think they need to be a bit better spatialized, i.e., make it obvious what is a sub-menu and what is a main page, whether the settings toggle are restricted to a sub-application (like Navigating) or the full application, whether they are permanent or just temporary for the current trip, etc. We have the Sailfish page indicator which is usually great and minimalist, but might be insufficient at times for complex applications like Pure Maps.
I don't have any clear suggestion in mind, I just find it hard to step back and clearly know in advance where to find a particular setting. I know the settings are already shown in the pages corresponding to the sub-menus, but I don't know, there is something I can't explain. Maybe it's just because there are many configuration options (which is good), or because items are big (which is good too for a navigation application), or because all items look the same regardless of whether they are settings, recent searches, POI categories, search options, router selection. I just feel it is hard to quickly figure out where is what, is that option on the same level as that one, and so on.
I am not a daily user, which makes it hard to really know the application by heart, but I feel it could be a bit more straightforward and be useful to all those like me that tend to use the application only when they are already panicking because they are going to be late somewhere.
- It is also difficult sometimes to know what does what and whether I should change that or that. I'm not familiar with the routers, and what you explained here for Stadia for instance, I would never have guessed. I don't even know why or if I should use another one in other situations. Same for maps, a keyword and a preview would help greatly, though default maps are clearly identified so I can go back to the "dev's suggestion" easily if I am not sure. Maybe it would be possible to better expose what features are offered by each specific options, and whether there are obvious cons. Restricting the available options depending on whether the map data in use is supplied by OSM Server or not would help too I suppose. Not sure if doable.
- I would love to be able to control OSM Server from the map application, something like:
Code:Map data > Offline maps > Toggle on/off Download the maps you want to use offline > List of areas, and the download folder
- Sometimes it would be good to be able to show all POIs next to the current location without any specific preselected category, but instead category icons on the map. Or, at least, having the possibility to preselect several categories. There are so many different keywords for food for instance, you never know if selecting Restaurants will show everything or if what you are looking for would instead be in Food, French Restaurant, Belgian Restaurant, Bagel Shop, Bakery, Breakfast spot, Burger, Café, etc. I know the keywords are inherited from the search service being used (and again here pointers would be helpful to choose one), but they are all cluttered so sometimes selecting several would just be easier, without the fear of missing something. Maybe even allowing the user to save some searches, so that he can do a meta search with all food-related stuff and then just select this meta-type later without bothering with the million keywords from Foursquare again.
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2018-08-24
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The default setting seem a bit "wrong". Of course, de gustibus non disputandum est, but I would expect OSM Scout to be the default maps provider
Search and Navigation have their own provider settings. That is fine and some may find it useful, but I would expect the default to follow the setting of the maps provider and only diverge when the user explicitly tells it to.
I really like the view while navigating (driving). The tilt, rotation and especially the zoom (especially street names) are just perfect.
In the Maps settings, what is the difference between OSM Scout Day and OSM Scout Day English?
I don't think most people associate the difference between day and night with switching the map provider. I certainly don't. I would expect it to be a quick switch in a very prominent place. Something you can do quickly and easily while driving at 120 km/h on a motorway.
The voice instructions told me to turn into A404, which it pronounced as "eigh-four-four" instead of "eigh-four-oh-four". This happened several times, so I was not hearing it wrong. Or maybe I was but consistently
I have mentioned this before in the WhoGo thread, but still... I found "drive for 4/10 of a mile" a bit odd. I think I finally figured out why. The SI system is wonderful not because it uses meters and kilograms, but because it is decimal. In contrast, the imperial system never uses the decimal notation. A foot is 12 inches, not 10. A mile is 1760 yards (4 furlongs, 80 chains), not 1000.
Fractions work in a similar way: everything is in halves, thirds, quarters, eights and twelfths. Examples: 5/8", 2/3 mile... Cooking recipes mention 1/4 lb, 3/4 oz etc, unlike metric recipes with their 125 ml and 250 g (not 1/8 litre and 1/4 kg).
"4/10 of a mile" simply does not fit this paradigm. I realize this is too much work for such a minor cosmetic thing so I am just throwing it in as a curious observation, not a change request.
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