User:Usul/UING

Improving the (graphical) user interface to navit is key to improve the usability of our tool. We can split up this process into the single components:

Map style

• einheitlichere Icons User:Usul/OwnMapIcons
• Icons für Marken
• Kartenstil mit Länderfärbung
• Kartenstil mit Erkennung der Siedlungsdichte
• Kartenstil je Verwendungszweck (Auto, Fahrrad, Wanderer, Max_Speed, ...)
• Level of Detail wählbar/automatisch (Geschwindigkeit)
• Antialiasing
• permanente Karten-Mitbewegung

OSD

• widgets immer mit Status sichtbar
• labels mit vernünftigen Umbrüchen ggF. kürzen

Menu

• user:Usul/MenuNG
• Menü je nach kontext

Dialogs

POI info dialog

• more friendly labels e.g "Planet IC (building)"
• Menu and actions should be easily to recognise
• Shorten labels "As destination", "As curr. position" "Add bookmark"
• New action "Find similar POIs"
• More metainfos: address, contacts, website/wikipedia (real links!), opening hours/collection times, operator, cuisine, fees, note/description, traffic restrictions (roads), heights (mountains, buildings, ...), internet_access

POI search dialog

This Dialog has been splitup into multiple dialogs

• most recent unit - show the last ones you searched for
• grouped to Categories
  • Tourism
    • History (castles, monuments, ...)
    • Vacation(camp site, B&B, hostel, motel, hotel)
    • gastronomy (fast_food, pubs, cafe, clubs, restaurants)
    • Entertainment (theme parks, cinema, art, discoteq, swimming, golf, motortrack, parks, museum)
  • Traffic
    • bike (repair, parking, sharing)
    • car (repair, parking, sharing, fuel station)
    • bus (stops, stations)
    • tram
    • underground
    • trains
  • Sport
  • public service
    • toilets
    • library
    • public buildings
    • churchs
    • university
    • telephone
    • post office
  • shopping
    • bank
    • ATM
    • DIY
    • kiosk
    • alcohol
    • drug store
    • grocery
    • getränkemarkt
    • superstore/malls
  • emergency
    • pharmacy
    • doctors
    • dentist
    • veterenery
    • hospital
    • police
  • misc

The final dialog listing the found POI instances:

• filter for e.g. operator, opening_hours, ...
• filter for distance (city, county, state, ...)
• "show all filtered on map" -> get a good overview where you can alter your route to check in at a single desired POI
• heatmap to see where a high density of POIs is (e.g. boutiques in the city centre)
• non physical POIs (internet_access, brand, ...)

Adress search dialog

• most recent unit - show the last ones you searched for
• "search in this city" button

General

• improve control with keyboard
• antialeasing
• OpenGLES accelerated rendering