Number entry for vehicles, track view suggestions
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:19 am
I love the app (even if I'm just using it while driving around normally for now) but one thing that bugged me immediately was the engine info for the vehicles. The number rollers used are ok for limited selections, but for the RPM range spanning thousands of numbers it's quite annoying, or even the HP/torque which can still range over hundreds of numbers. It's not so bad on the gear ratios since the digits are separated into different rollers...but that still feels a bit awkward. Basically my request there is to just use the number keypad keyboard for that stuff rather than the rollers. For the wheel specs I think the rollers work ok since there's a relatively limited selection so you can flick across the whole range pretty quickly.
On a similar UI vein, one little peeve is that in text fields with default text that you normally just delete, there should be a circular gray "x" in the text field to quickly clear the text out.
For the track view (by which I mean Lap List -> Lap Details -> Track), it'd be nice to have the Map/Satellite/Hybrid toggle like on the regular Map view. In addition to the speed markers, it'd be nice to show max lateral g's in turns. For the Diagram view I find myself swiping to the next/previous statistic accidentally a lot. Could the stat selection be put into a menu/popover/dialog of some sort (perhaps the existing options window) to prevent that? If that's in place the standard scroll momentum could be used to more smoothly view the graphs, and ideally if possible, have the map marker follow the scrolling live. Maybe even a sort of "playback" mode, which would basically just be auto scrolling the graph.
And I guess this is just as much of a question as a suggestion, is it possible to have unspecified POIs show up on tracks? I made a bunch just for markers of stuff around me, but if I set a lap into a track set (like "Work") it won't show the unspecified POIs anymore. I don't want to set them to just a single track set since my "tracks" so far are just places I drive to regularly so the POIs would overlap the areas. Not a huge deal particularly if Map view options get implemented, but it was nice seeing my POIs until I sorted out my "laps" into wherever I was driving.
On a similar UI vein, one little peeve is that in text fields with default text that you normally just delete, there should be a circular gray "x" in the text field to quickly clear the text out.
For the track view (by which I mean Lap List -> Lap Details -> Track), it'd be nice to have the Map/Satellite/Hybrid toggle like on the regular Map view. In addition to the speed markers, it'd be nice to show max lateral g's in turns. For the Diagram view I find myself swiping to the next/previous statistic accidentally a lot. Could the stat selection be put into a menu/popover/dialog of some sort (perhaps the existing options window) to prevent that? If that's in place the standard scroll momentum could be used to more smoothly view the graphs, and ideally if possible, have the map marker follow the scrolling live. Maybe even a sort of "playback" mode, which would basically just be auto scrolling the graph.
And I guess this is just as much of a question as a suggestion, is it possible to have unspecified POIs show up on tracks? I made a bunch just for markers of stuff around me, but if I set a lap into a track set (like "Work") it won't show the unspecified POIs anymore. I don't want to set them to just a single track set since my "tracks" so far are just places I drive to regularly so the POIs would overlap the areas. Not a huge deal particularly if Map view options get implemented, but it was nice seeing my POIs until I sorted out my "laps" into wherever I was driving.