Include amount of time to destination and estimated time of arrival

mapzen / eraser-map

Privacy-focused mapping application for Android

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Include amount of time to destination and estimated time of arrival #338

Open dgearhart opened 8 years ago

dgearhart commented 8 years ago

Device name: samsung Model: SM-G900V
Android Version: 5.0
App build number: master-792
What did you expected to happen? To have distance to destination, estimated time to destination, and estimated time of arrival at destination displayed for the user
What happened instead? Only distance to destination was displayed
Steps to reproduce: Run any route
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souperneon commented 8 years ago

@dgearhart I decided to leave the time out (both time remaining and ETA) because it's currently not accurate because traffic and other factors are not included. I take Google's ETA seriously and make mode decisions based on that. Do you think it will be misleading for the user. We also might end up in a situation where the time might countdown much faster than the distance or time won't change for a while if the user is stuck in traffic.

dnesbitt61 commented 8 years ago

Even with traffic information this is just an estimated time...I think some estimate being shown is better than none.

dgearhart commented 8 years ago

I think time remaining will update along with distance remaining I see ETA update on all nav apps depending on how well I am traversing the path. It would be nice to see how well the base OSM data time estimates are without traffic

gknisely commented 8 years ago

I agree, we need an ETA. While testing in VA this weekend, the family kept asking when will we get there and I had no idea. Kids even said look at the phone.

souperneon commented 8 years ago

Ok I'm sold! I recommend we start with time remaining which will be an extension of the choose mode screen where we show distance and time for each mode. @dgearhart I'm not sure we are tracking journey time in the app to see how OSM time estimates are. @mjcunningham is that something we can do?

dgearhart commented 8 years ago

@souperneon yes we anonymously track trip time and length

souperneon commented 8 years ago

For v1, let's try - https://github.com/mapzen/eraser-map/issues/501