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[Costales <costales@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys :)

As we are working in our spare time and in our preferred feature, I don't
see the need of a roadmap :)
I would like to use a faster way (Telegram group?) for just say what I'm
working and not duplicate work :)


About your ideas Joerg,


> 1. vector maps.

The image tiles are more light for the app and for the data
(connection). Mapzen
has vector maps <https://mapzen.com/projects/vector-tiles/>, but the data
for a small area is so big and even Firefox runs slow with those maps on PC
:S


> 2. night view: - include a dark theme and adjust map colors for a night
view.

+1 I think users will like low brightness for the night.


> 3. Add niks convergence features and improve them.

I think this is the primary goal :)


> 4. quick access to pois for active routes.

I don't see this as a good advance (nearby history just 1 click of distance
:P), but we can talk about an implementation, but better another thread :)


> 5. gpx-tracking 6. save favorite routes and recall them.

I think 5 & 6 is the same, read/write track routes.
I would not like this because this feature is not for a really simple/easy
app (from my point of view) :) We can talk too :)


> 7. enhance offline tile caching

As core app we could ask for access to read home (?). If yes, It is not so
complicate (image tiles) from local.


> Voice Management

This would be critical for me in this release too, because it's important
reduce 4,5MB from my view :)

A hug and thanks a lot for your feedback!
:D



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On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Joerg Berroth <joergberroth@xxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> Am Montag, 25. April 2016 14:52:46 CEST schrieb Nekhelesh Ramananthan <
> krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Hi Joerg and Marcos,
>>
>> I like to start of this email by mentioning that I will be travelling in
>> about a week or two and will be quite busy in May as I am moving to a new
>> city. So my involvement in uNav 0.60 won't be as much as before. With that
>> said, I like to say what I had in mind for 0.60.
>>
>> *1. Convergence* - Devs: Nik
>>
>> With the advent of Ubuntu Tablet and the whole Unity 8 inching more and
>> more towards the Desktop, convergence is a hot topic and something we
>> should get started with in 0.60. It might be even take up to 0.61 to get
>> it
>> finished as it involves a lot of work ranging from design to
>> implementation
>> and testing. This will be something I will put my full effort to get it
>> done. We will need to think about keyboard shortcuts, focus states, and
>> converge individual components. For instance, the welcome wizard could use
>> a slightly altered behavior in the tablet landscape mode. I would like
>> some
>> implementation from you guys on this.
>>
>> Great. Good to hear...
>
>> *2. Voice Management *- Devs: Marcos(JSON) & Nik(qml)
>>
>>
> Marcos had the idea for a better voice management. At the moment we ship
>> all voices (for all languages) within the app. Marcos had the idea of just
>> shipping the default english voice in the app while allowing for the other
>> voices to be downloaded when the user installs the app. This will reduce
>> the app's footprint from 4.5 Mb to maybe 500 Kb. Also we can enable
>> male/female voices for each language. This feature will first require us
>> to
>> finalize a JSON structure and then make the appropriate work in the QML
>> side to download the voice and use that.
>>
>> Also great to hear. I think that before going into that step, we should
> have a brainstorm on how to even improve voice indications. Meaning
> finalize the indication structure with some improvements by adding
> additional ones.
>
> *@*Joerg, In the features that you listed, I suggest you work on what
>> interests you and is also possible for 0.60. Personally I think that
>> targeting both vector maps and offline tile caching in the same release is
>> a bit ambitious as it involves a lot of work and invasive code change. I
>> think if we get either of these features in 0.60, that alone would be
>> amazing.
>>
>> There should be a decision on which way to take. I will discuss with
> marcos.
>
> I personally don't see a need a "save-favorite" routes features. Here are
>> my reasoning for that,
>>
> Me neither. Just a test ;-)
>
>
>> - If user is using a certain route (favorite) frequently, then I would
>> expect him to remember that route after a while thereby nullifying the
>> need
>> for such a feature. Also, the feature is a bit rigid since it fixes the
>> start and stop points. While the favorite locations is more flexible and
>> superior by allowing flexibility in this regard.
>> - At the moment, you can pretty much simulate this feature, by pressing on
>> a favorite location in the search page and navigating to it.
>>
>> As for the quick access to POIs for active route, this requires a good
>> discussion on how to introduce that feature in uNav. Surely it is obvious
>> that it would be an additonal popup in the route popup. However we will
>> need to brainstorm on whether we allow users to set what POIs they would
>> like to see in the Car, Bicycle and Walking mode. For instance, the
>> logical
>> things to show while using a car would be Gas Stations, Car Repair etc.
>> But
>> what if I have an electric car ;) ? What I am trying to imply is that may
>> be users might want to decide what POIs they want to add in the route
>> popup. And if we agree to that, we need to brainstorm about the design for
>> that.
>>
> That's right. I think there will be some easy ways to let the user decide
> from the poi list.
> It will be a helpful feature.
>
>
>
>> Can you explain your purpose for the night view? How does it help users?
>> Why is it necessary for unav to include such a feature?
>>
>
> By a car and navigate at night. Youll get the idea ;-)
>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Nekhelesh
>>
>> Joerg
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Joerg Berroth <joergberroth@xxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> hi guys,
>>>
>>> now that 0.59 is in qa queue, i would like toshare some ideas on
>>> features and move towards features that could be prepared for 0.6.
>>>
>>> The overall design changes are great and are the perfect base for the
>>> ongoing development. I really like what we have achieved. Great!
>>>
>>> I had some thoughts on new features that I want to share with you and
>>> hope to get some feedback.
>>>
>>> 1. of course, vector maps. i do not know if we can make this to 0.6 but
>>> i would like to summarize all the possible solutions with you, so that
>>> we can start working on that. i think marcos has already some ideas.
>>>
>>> This of course is a longer way and there are several other things we
>>> could achieve in a short term solution:
>>>
>>> 2. night view: - include a dark theme and adjust map colors for a night
>>> view.
>>> 3. Add niks convergence features and improve them.
>>> 4. quick access to pois for active routes.
>>> 5. gpx-tracking
>>> 6. save favorite routes and recall them.
>>> 7. enhance offline tile caching
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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