Illustration of the lane guidance

[Aiurek]

Lenovo Moto G4 plus, Android 7.0 OsmAnd+ 3.4.xx, before the play store release 2019-08-03 May style: OsmAnd Navigation service: OsmAnd (offline)

I struggle a lot in recognizing the lane guidance while driving, since the arrows are too small and, due to the transparency of the lane guidance background, extremely hard to dsistinguish from a background with similar colors. Without a proper or not properly visible lane guidance driving is so much harder. Sometimes u've got like only a few seconds to decide whether you're on the right lane or not. A couple of times I've changed lanes only because I misinterpreted what I could barely see in the tiny lane guidance box - especially when the phone is fixed to your dash board and therefore almost a meter away from your eyes.

On the right I've added a non-transparent layer underneath and increased the arrow size a little, whereby I honestly do not like the look of it either, but mby someone here got something more beautiful and handy in mind.

I'd highly appreciate an appropriate change here. Thank you :)

[nhfo]

@Aiurek "configure screen" has an option to make widget background opaque, something to help you for time being.

[pebogufi]

small lane guidance reported earlier https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/5187

[littlehelper]

At least an improved contrast and/or a bold outline of the arrow(s) I should follow would help to better identify them. On a day with bright daylight currently it is very difficult to tell which colored (grey, yellow and sometimes green) arrow is which.

[dremelts]

This definitely needs to be corrected (IMHO). I just used this feature for the first time today on the express way and when the lane guidance came up I had to really stare at it (taking my eyes off the road) in order to try to see which lane was being indicated. There is just not enough contrast between yellow and gray. Besides which, yellow and gray are not intuitive. I would prefer green and red. Green universally means GO and red universally means NO GO. Also, when lane guidance comes up there is no reason that it cannot dominate almost all of the screen real estate. When your attention is focused on which lane you need to move into you really don't care about distance/time to destination or current speed etc.

Thanks for your work on this - it really is a great app but I hope this issue can be addressed.

[klic]

I would like to second this. It is really hard to distingish it, you don't have much time, probably need to change lanes also, and all this while trying to discern which lanes you have to switch to... Would really be great if it's either like in the above comment or selectable...

[rich123]

Adding a third voice to the lack of contrast between the yellow and grey colors for the lane guidance arrows. On a phone, attached to a windshield or dashboard, and while driving, the lack of contrast between the yellow and grey colors makes the lane guidance arrows almost invisible. As to @dremelts suggestion of red and green, that seems reasonable at first glance, except for those with red-green color blindness (which is the most likely color blindness for most men), where simply red vs. green may not be very visible either. So whatever is done, there needs to be both a color, and a contrast, difference to cover for both instances. @littlehelper's suggestion of a bold border (I'm thinking black border myself) around the arrows that are "active" with no such border and the existing light grey for the "don't get in this lane" arrows, might be best.

[nhfo]

I think lane guide should appear in place of turn info on left. There is little bit more horizontal space there. Also it will not hide junctions ahead, which is good, you know what is ahead.

For better visibility the lane guide should either have dark translucent (in case of transparent widgets) background or arrows should have white or black outlines.

[littlehelper]

Anything planned to improve the visibility of lane guidance arrows? See also #3769.

[nickvigilante]

iOS 14.7.1 iPhone XS Max OsmAnd 4.0.5

@sonora I've tested this under a few lighting conditions and it's difficult for me to distinguish the yellow from the grey lane arrows. I had day mode on during the day and with the sun in my face and with my phone on full brightness I couldn't distinguish the arrows until the green arrow appeared. At night when I had night mode on and night shift on (blue light reduction) it was just as difficult to distinguish as in the day time. I turned off night shift and it made it a bit better, but it required me taking my eyes off the road more than when using Apple Maps. Here's an example I pulled of Apple Maps from the internet:

https://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2017/09/mapsios11laneguidance.jpg?retina

In my opinion, there's enough of a contrast on the lane assist in Apple Maps so that I don't spend that much time choosing a lane.

I like all the suggestions in the thread and opine that the lane assist arrows should be bigger and more prominently displayed somewhere.

[sonora]

Looks like there are several dimensions to this issue:

Colors follow the international stop light logic where yellow stands for 'attention,' and green for 'go now'.

Background transparency: In car mode you should definitely use opaque, which is the profile default.

Contrast: Both in night mode amd in day mode it seems to me the contrast of the highlighted arrow vs. the background is rather good. But I guess it could be an issue that the contrast for the not highlighted arrow is actually very similar?

• [ ] It appears to me a fix could be to closer assimilate the light gray color of the not highlighted arrow to the background to reduce its contrast, i.e. make it darker gray in night mode and lighter gray in day mode.

Size: It is a design decision. May be hard to generally increase the size of this widget because in the case of many lanes it iquickly becomes an issue on small screens. And placing it completely outside the map like in the Apple screenshots is a design decision.

Borders I have no strong opinion about framing arrows, maybe someone wants to post a strawman to look at.

Overall I suggest the one measure of reducing the contrast of the discouraged lanes vs. the background could be a easy fix worth trying?

[mwerle]

Re: Size: It would in general be nice to have a widget scale.

I need slightly larger map and font scales, but the widgets end up taking up way too much room on my phone while riding.

[merito]

I've noticed that if the line turns and the next line goes straight and turns height of the arrows is different and it looks bad. I think the turning only line arrow should be shorter, see example