Re: New design ideas

[Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se>]

On 03/13/2014 07:39 PM, Hashem Nasarat wrote:
> Great work!
> A few comments.
>
> * I'd like to see icons instead of text for "bike, traffic, transit".

Sure. I think I only left it as labels now because it was quicker.
I think someone has a patch in progress that actually uses the icons for 
the buttons already.

> * I'd love to be able to type directions into the search box (I'm unsure
> how the routing sidebar will work), like "New York City, NY to Boston, MA"

Me too.
Is there any best-practice syntax for this?

> * For the marker popover button for routing, I'd like an option to have
> "route from here" and "route to here"

I considered that, but in order to not overload the bubble, I want to 
make it easy to change directions in the sidebar, with defaulting to 
From My current Location to The Address I Seached For.
That reminds me that I need to make sure that the routing sidebar 
mockups are up to date.
These are the ones from a while ago and I would consider them outdated: 
https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/maps/routing-hires.png
I'll update them ASAP.

> * One of the things I hate about google maps is that there's no way to
> favorite/ save / access old directions.

I'll think about this and see if I can come up with a good design for this.

> * Having some way to show transit schedule tables would be sweet too.

I wouldn't do the regular time tables, as the public transport websites 
are usually a lot better at that, but being able to use Public 
Transportation as part of your route should be possible (but still needs 
a lot work from the sources of that info).

- Andreas