App: Animated location

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Provide option for location animation / interpolation for more smooth movement in navigation / follow.

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Available in Kurviger 2.2.4 (Beta).

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For anyone testing this function,
to understand what is happening on your device:

Please write detailed reports with videos if possible.

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Where do I have to put the focus on when using this function? Also what does it mean: “Ausrichtung Grenzwert” set default to 10 km/h

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Please see the feature description:

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Unfortunately the movement is too slow. In curvy areas I am 2 curves in front of the location movement then. I had to switch that off.

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Thanks for the report.

More details are needed: speed, location service, Kalman, other settings, …

It depends on the driving style, GPS sensor, speed, etc.
That’s why it is optional, like the other functions.

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Ok will try to collect more information. Yesterday speed between 90 and 130 km/h, Kalman active, GPS Android. But I can very good live without smooth movement.

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Animated location isn’t very important for me - I don’t look at the navigation system all the time. Anyway, to know the difference I drove the same short route once without and once with animated location - here the two videos side by side:

I like the right version more - thanks for the idea and the realization, Emux!

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Thank you very much for the videos! :slightly_smiling_face:

The Kalman filter was off?

I will see for more improvements in the future.

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Oh sorry - yes it was off, probably switched off accidentally when switching back and forth of animated location.

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No problem. The 2 settings work differently, but can be combined.
Kalman filter can further help with GPS estimation (extrapolation).

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GPS location updates are at their best every second.

You can use the “Kalman filter” to estimate intermediate locations.

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Ah ok denn du schriebst Kalman Filter abschalten wenn man Google testet und das hatte ich natürlich gemacht. Wenn es mit dem aktivieren dieser Funktionen wieder flüssig läuft, bin ich glücklich.

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This is because location service tests must be performed without auxiliary functions.

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Today I did a (very short) test of animated location.
Map movement was perfect smooth but map orientation was lagging a few seconds behind reality.

When I have time I will try to do more testing.
Especially the difference between Android and Google location service.

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Thanks for the testing and the detailed report!

Kalman filter and animated location work differently:

  • Kalman filter estimates the intermediate locations until next GPS report.
    (not rotation)

  • Animated location animates the map to the next location.
    Including rotation, although rotation seems to react more slowly.

There is always room for improvements in these advanced algorithms… :slightly_smiling_face:

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Ein dickes Lob an die “Beiden” von Kurviger / A big compliment to the “two” from Kurviger

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This setting is only important if an offline map is used.