Group events on the map 💡
First of all, to say that I'm grateful for the invitation to the Beta Test of Niantic Chat.
I saw several problems and bugs reported, I'll remain attentive to the forum to contribute in those topics if necessary.
But as a new user the first thing I looked for was the public groups/ Events on the map and I saw this (image).
And the first thing I thought was: Couldn't all this be grouped?
I think that if this is a beta of very few users and in the future will be multitudinous and perhaps up to 4 or more games, it will become a chaos to visualize the groups / events that we would like to join.
Possible suggestion, group it like the wayspots on the Mission Creator Authoring Tool page 🤔.... Or something similar☺️
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Great minds... I had the same suggestion. With the same example :D
I have already experienced some difficulty viewing the map at a great distance. Most likely this problem can be solved by grouping icons on the map, and as the map approaches, these grouped icons will crumble. How is it done in google maps. Good practice.
I think a way to filter what groups you want to see on the map would solve some issues you mentioned. Example: let’s say I’m looking for a Pokémon group in Toronto, I type in a search box “Pokémon Toronto” and every group/event that doesn’t have those keywords disappear from the map.
Another idea could be to list all the groups/events from the part of the map you’re looking at. In that scenario, if I zoom on the greater Toronto area on the map, all the groups that are available in that portion of the map could be listed with their name and selecting a group on that list would highlight it on the map.
Grouping icons is necessary imo. There’s less than 100 groups and my phone can’t handle it already..
Same here...
When I zoom out too much, the map practically breaks up.
I'm out of sight and it's hard to zoom back in...
Perhaps adding a zoom in / zoom out bar on the map could be good idea, that way it would be more controlled.