Provide option for smooth movement in navigation / follow location modes.
Instead of map location “jumps”, smooth scroll / rotation can be performed.
Used alone or with Kalman filter, offers more fluid location map animations.
I really like this idea. Smoother movements look more professional and would improve the user experience escpially for those who prefer to be visually navigated (like me).
But I think this would result in more power consumption because of a shorter refresh cycle, right? Therefore it would be good to have this as an optional setting.
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Correctly, everywhere the “Smooth movement” or the “Kalman filter” require more CPU or GPU (depends on implementation), so will be optional with default off.
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Has anyone else tried the smooth movement feature while driving?
Can you share your experience, feedback with smooth movement?
Available in “Settings | Location | Smooth movement”.
I’ve tried the smooth movement feature today on a short trip.
So far nothing to complain, on the Samsung Galaxy S7
Manfred
I tried it now several times and the map movement is still too slow. Especially in alternating curves it is far behind the reality. Samsung S9+
Yesterday I did a 100km ride with many sharp turns.
I can confirm the observation from @Tom, that in some situations map rotation lags behind reality. Maybe 3 seconds or more. Especially after sharp turns at crossroads with subsequent rapid acceleration.
My settings:
- Kalman filter: on
- Smooth movement: on
- Location service: Google
- Samsung Galaxy S7, Android 8
I switched Kalman filter off -> no visible difference.
Then I changed location service from Google to Android.
Remaining test time was to short for a final conclusion, but my impression was, that map rotation was now way faster.
My observation so far, leads me to the conclusion that Google location service lags behind reality.
Manfred
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Thanks everyone for the feedback, especially the details are very useful!
Google location service is supposed to be more efficient and battery friendly, but also a black box.
It will be more fine tuned in next app version and we’ll see how its behavior is improved in action.
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During (almost?) every ride, I notice the smooth movement being disabled by itself after a while and the map gets jumpy (2-3 fps maybe) again. It stays enabled in the menu. When pausing and resuming the navigation, it gets smooth again for a while.
I use Android GPS (not Google) and the Kalman Filter is enabled.
Are you aware of this problem?
I’m trying to make a screen recording with the built-in simulation but there it doesn’t seem to occur. I will make a screen recording during my next real ride to illustrate the problem for you. Any other information I could collect when doing this?
It’s better not set Kalman filter + Smooth movement simultaneously.
Kalman filter has its own process, so select each time one of them.