Monday, 27 February 2012

Edit Journey

So the "edit journey" function is used through the journey results screen.


 The app could allow the user to browse through their journey's "stress points", showing the "Google Earth" image of where they pressed the button as a reminder.


 They have the choice to say what the problem was, e.g. busy junctions, pot holes, traffic hot spot, lots of trucks and buses, narrow busy roads, etc.


If the "stress points" are categorised right, then this could be useful in 2 ways:
1. Users planning a journey can tell the difference between a pot hole and busy traffic when choosing whether to avoid that "stress point"
2. A list of all problem pot holes can be pulled up as a campaign against local councils to fix roads.

Thought:
It would be good to tell the difference between time sensitive problems like road works and consistent problems. This way, users could be asked if there was still a problem at a certain point.


Also, although there isn't need for much detail, users could have the option to write more about the "stress point". This could be useful when a problem is in the inside lane of a junction as it could be irrelevant to cyclists taking different turnings. or example,  if a pothole is only on a specific part of the road,e.g. bus lane, it doesn't have to affect the whole road, just raise awareness that there is a nasty one on the route in the bus lane to watch out for of.

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