Show nearby portals on a map, not as pop-ups
Toxoplasmolly
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Device: Pixel 2
OS: Android 10
App Version: 2.33.1
The persistent display of three portals "near" me when no other portals are visible is currently not being done in a manner that I find helpful or useful.
The pop-ups can obscure the action circle and the cursor.
The pop-ups can really stretch the notion of "nearby."
The deeper issue is that I simply do not care for this information 90%, 95%, 99% of the time. More often than not, I am not a meandering adventure. There will be portals along my way, or there will not be portals along the way. This is life. This is fine.
And what if I am on a meandering adventure? Chances are, I have consulted the intel map beforehand to help plot my path. So, again, the pop-ups are not helpful.
But suppose, now, that I am on a meandering adventure and that I forgot to consult the intel map. Aha! Where are some nearby portals? Let me pull up a map with markers to a few nearby portals… if only such a feature existed.
The current pop-ups don't fill this niche. I can't plan a travel path based on a rough direction and distance. For all I know, that portal 2km away from me is on the other side of a river, and I'll have to walk for 2 days to get to the nearest crossing. Bah.
"But, you're using 2.33.1!" says a pixie in my ear. "Tap into the portal, copy the portal coordinates, and put those coordinates on a map!" I swat the pixie away, pointing out that doing that a few times over is clunky.
"Use the intel!" says another pixie. I swat that one away, too, pointing out that loading the "all portals" level of the intel map is both clunky and time consuming over "large" geographic areas.
Comments
Here is an instance of the nearby portal pop-ups obscuring the action circle and comically stretching the notion of "nearby" (one of these portals is not like the others…).
What do you need the action circle for when there are no portals in it?
Perhaps I'd like to see the map in my immediate vicinity? If there's nothing there, then show me the nothingness.
They need to go away when you are not zoomed out.
How do you bump it up?
This feature needs to go away. I'm yet to use it even once, but as a data conscious user, I'm cursing at it almost every hour every day.
In Redacted they usually did go away.
In Prime, spinning the map in a circle two or three times, but as soon as you move, they come right back.
This feature definitely should be disengageable.