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🤖 Critical Maps Android App
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Option "Searching" #274

Closed mega-stoffel closed 5 years ago

mega-stoffel commented 5 years ago

it might be a good idea to bring an option "Searching" to the app. This option would hide your location, but you could still see all others. It might be helpful in smaller cities, where the CM has only a few Critical Maps users, and as much, if not even - in some cases - more people looking for the current CM. To avoid forgetting this option: as soon as your location is close to somebody else, the option "Searching" could automatically be deactivated and the app is back in the "normal" mode.

dreua commented 5 years ago

I'm wondering if leaving the searchers on the map but showing them in another color or another icon would be a better solution to your problem. Unless that is prohibitively harder to implement I think the position of searchers could still be valuable in some cases.

cbalster commented 5 years ago

Hey!

Actually something similar is already implemented and will be available in the next update. It's called oberserver mode and - if activated - your location will not be shown on the map. You can see the details here (implementation changed a bit, but concept and ui is the same): https://github.com/criticalmaps/criticalmaps-android/pull/237

Having searchers in a different color could be nice too, but I'm unsure whether that concept would be easy to communicate.

If you have any feedback on the observer mode, it's more than welcome :)

cbalster commented 5 years ago

Closing this for now - if you have any feedback on the observer mode once it's rolled out, just open a new issue :) Thank you for the feedback!