I tried out the beta of Modern Atlas and found it a great way to discover the hidden gems in my own city. It was helpful when I was in a new part of SF to use map based discovery to find interesting things to do and see. Highly recommend! It also sounds like @ericrwolfe has some interesting features in the works
@tylerswartz thanks Tyler! Really glad you found it useful in your home city. One of the hardest parts of the travel space is building long-lasting engagement and utility in the time between trips. Definitely have some stuff in the works there :)
Really happy to see this in the App Store. Modern Atlas solves a real need I've had for years that no other tool has solved well enough: easily curated travel maps. The pairing with wiki voyage is clutch since I just roll into a new country, read the main article, then dive in to areas or activities that interest me. Great work, Eric!
App = purchased. My only complaint/suggestion is to change the map color scheme/design formatting to something WAY less distracting.
Here is an example: http://bluetide.pro/15Axr/3CpyQuOb - As you can see, it's near impossible to read/use. It's so busy looking. It would be nice if the streets were more muted and such.
Here are some themes I found online for Openstreetmap's: https://userstyles.org/styles/br...
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@ericrwolfe Maybe it could be a settings option where you could change the map color theme so it's a win-win for everyone based on what you like/want to see! :)
@bluetidepro Thanks for the feedback Zach! Yeah the map styles are something I'm still iterating on.
Do you think is just the underlying map style, or do you find the density of places a problem? I'll try pulling down the saturation on the road color and reducing the road labels.
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@ericrwolfe It could be a bit of both. Again, it would be super awesome if you made it so it was all just settings the user could toggle themselves. Like they could basically build the map it displays. Turn off/on what labels they want, pick from various color schemes, etc. Just an idea! :)
This looks really great! Love the design. I've noticed a lot of people are jumping into the curation of tour guides / experiences for traveling. I see some similarities to what Latitude is building too. http://www.latitudetours.com/
@whoismaxpelzner Latitude looks pretty cool! We don't do any real curation in Modern Atlas yet. Right now it's more for the curiosity-motivated travelers who prefer to self-select the places that interest them.
However, from talking to users, it looks like there are some travelers that do want more pre-curated lists of places, so it's hopefully something we can get smarter about.
restaurant/venue reviews are dope, i read them a lot, but for me, i also wonder about what context the particular place i'm at/going to exists and this app seems like a nifty solve...awesome work, @ericwolfe (:
@ptpells Yup, definitely going after people driven more by curiosity :).
Foursquare, Yelp, and TripAdvisor already solve the venue review space extraordinarily well (in fact, you should be able to tap through to the Foursquare page for any of the restaurant-type places in the app), so I'll leave that to them.
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