Comment by shrx
11 hours ago
This is also a problem with Google Maps navigation. It is always showing the perspective looking straight ahead of your current direction, even when you're approaching a sharp turn. Instead, the perspective should be along a vector connecting your current location with the point where the navigation's path crosses the edge of the display, pointing straight up.
Took me a while to figure out what you're saying, now I assume you're using the "up is direction of motion"?
I use map view / north is up, which makes it reasonably easy to get he big picture - I encourage everybody to try it :).
That seems very wrong and unintuitive for U-turns.
It does.
Let us embrace this minor imperfection by simply excluding U-turns from this presentation method.
So why not use 2D maps, have people lost the ability to read North up maps? I swear ever since paper maps have not been used in cars, people have gotten spatially dumber.
I love north-up maps because I find they give me way better spatial context. My truck’s nav system gives north-up as an option but my phone and my truck map both suffer from the same problem on different axes. My phone sits in its holder vertically, so I have way more north-south context than east-west. The truck screen is landscape, same problem north-south! A square map north-up would be amazing!