cgeo/c-geo-opensource — Issue #1037: Working mode of unreliable marker
Author: Lineflyer
Created: 2012-01-24 23:11:52+00:00
State: open
Labels: feedback

I just tried out c:geo NB with a basic member account.
If I have seen it correctly all the caches on live-map (except the caches stored on the device) will appear with non-reliable marker.
I know, that the reliability can only be checked if the user is PM.

Assuming that this functionality will go to the market, I guess that many basic-member users will not understand why the caches are marked as unreliable and will probably not like this feature or even don't trust the app anymore.
The change to look-and-feel is to drastic. In fact in most cases the caches shown to basic-members will have reliable coordinates anyway, but we just cant detect that right now.

I hope, that I understood the the working-mode of the reliable-check, if not please correct me and/or close this issue.

After having seen the look-and-feel for basic-members I would like to suggest to think over the display of reliability in the following way:

1. For premium members only mark unreliable by a orange-circle and reliable without marker (like currently implemented)
2. For basic members only mark reliable by a green-circle and unreliable without marker

Doing it in this way each type of user would only get notified by a marker in important cases on is user-perspective and not be overwhelmed by a lot of caches marked "unsafe".

What do you think ?