A large and breathtaking local population of a native terrestrial orchids, yesterday. A colony containing many hundreds of flowering plants concentrated into a relatively small patch of sandstone heathland immediately south of Wongarra Hill on the Mirrorball track. Likely not rare, but beautiful. Likely identification is..
Spotted Sun-orchid - Thelymitra ixioides Sw. (Orchidaceae)
This is AllTrails on Android in the middle of an actual hike yesterday. It illustrates something that has been driving me nuts: almost the entire screen is UI, while the thing I'm actually trying to use - the map - is squeezed into a tiny fragment of what is left.
Look at everything being displayed simultaneously:
Giant turn-direction banner
Elapsed time
Distance
Elevation gain
Remaining time
Pace
Speed
Elevation profile
POI card ("Mount Mannell - 0.7 km away")
Photo/Creek marker
Compass
Multiple large buttons on both sides of the map
Map labels and other POIs
I'm hiking. At this particular moment I need to answer the question: Where does the trail go?
I don't need pace AND speed displayed permanently. I don't need an elevation graph consuming such a large chunk of the screen while I am approaching a junction. I don't need six hiking statistics permanently visible unless I swipe for them. I certainly don't need all of these things simultaneously while the actual map is relegated to a narrow strip in the middle of the display.
I'm not arguing that these features are useless. I'm arguing that they should be collapsible, by default while in the middle of a hike. Especially since I have tried to turn them all off, they reappear as soon as I unlock the phone.
Please give us a proper full-screen navigation mode: map + route + current position. Tap or swipe to bring back statistics, elevation, POIs and other controls when wanted.
I also note that I have the P.O.I indicators turned off in layers so why am I seeing P.O.I's that I don't want to see? Yesterday it showed me exciting viewpoints but of course there is no view just trees. And I had that setting turned off. How do I make them actually stay off?
The screenshot really says it all. For a navigation app, shouldn't the map be the dominant thing on the screen?
Separately, there is a problem with displayed screen layers. Every time I open the app I turn all the 4 default layers off except the map, but then of course for some reason four layers pop up again frequently. I don't know what I'm doing to make them come back. I'm not restarting the app. It's still going. This makes no sense to me and is annoying.
To be really clear I love this app. I've done over 2,500 km of hikes just in the last 3 years and I want to continue doing so!
I love having them back. Thanks. But I feel the legend is overkill and simply reduces map real estate. The heat colour densities are just so obvious, that the legend is quite redundant anyway.
I'm always struggling to find my current altitude on AllTrails. Here is a nice blank spot where it would be perfect!
It's standard on Gaia on every hiking page at the top. I find I run Gaia GPS in the background just for this feature alone. But, instead, there is a nice warm spot on AllTrails just waiting to be used up.
I know the are other ways to find it, but those feel crude and inaccurate compared to a single number at current location.