Suggestion to Enhance the Navigation tool of Maps.me
Repository
https://github.com/mapsme/omim
Components
Maps.me is an offline map application. To use the application, users must download first the the map of the region to navigate. Maps.me has navigation tools that can be used to specify what means of transportation you like to go places. User can go places by means of riding a car, walking, taking trains, riding on bicycle or on a taxi.
All the means of transportation provided by Maps.me are by land transport. But, there are places that cannot be covered through land. Example, a place on the other island. I have tried to navigate going to a place in the island using maps.me and it gives inaccurate result like the picture below. There are no available ports where the map said to so.
Proposal
What I am proposing here is to add a navigation tool is Maps.me which can be used to navigate by sea and by air.
Add this:
and 
These icons are for boat and airplane.
Also, I am proposing that every transportation mode has its own color indicator. The path traveled in the map will be colored according to the type of transportation mode. For the meantime, Maps.me path is colored blue in all transportation mode.
Mockups / Examples
Here are the examples on how the suggestion will work.
The meantime, Maps.me work like this. Point of route from and route to are needed to pinpoint and the application will find a way how to get there.
And here the path made by Maps.me
If the suggestion will be implemented, it will work like this. There will addition Icon for boat and airplane.
Since the path covers land and sea trip, the trip for each transportation mode will be specified. For example below, we take first the land trip.
Since it covers island to island, we need a boat to travel.
For the complete route:
The path has different color because it depends on the transportation mode that are available. The path color corresponds to the color indicator of transportation mode.
Benefits
Here are the benefits if implemented:
- Maps.me will now have additional transportation mode.
- Modes of transportation from places to places will now be accurate.
- By looking to the path or route, users will not be confuse and users will know what mode of transportation are needed.
Hello @thinkingmind, thank you for the contribution.
From your contribution, you combined 3 suggestions which is quite good.
The suggestions include
Map applications do not include routes for air and sea transportation because before you can fly a plane, sail a boat or pilot a ship you have to be skilled. They are meant for skilled workers who have undergone special training.
Suggesting this feature is like asking for routes when driving a train. This sort of transportation have designated routes.
You also suggested having different colours for each transportation routes. Since you can only select a mode at a time. This is of no use.
The last suggestion you made about the route being straight. The routes shown is a clear representation of the everyday road/streets and so on. Some might be straight and some are not.
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