Articles tagged Maps
3 articles tagged Maps.
Designing for people who are offline on purpose
Trail crews, rangers and long-distance hikers do not want a better connection. They want software that never asks for one. Notes from two years of building Ridgeline, from the first field test with a trail crew to the sync model we shipped, and what we would change.
Shipping a map app that works above treeline
Vector tiles, a 40 MB budget and a battery that has to last four days. What we cut, what we kept, and the one test we run on every release before it goes anywhere near a trail.
A type scale for cracked screens
Half the phones on a trail crew have a crack across the screen. A small type scale that stays legible through a spiderweb, in full sun, with gloves on.