consider adding a "trip planner" screen

[carocad]

Currently our routing is based on user location and user goal. This has the benefit of making it very straightforward to use i.e. open app, select destination, go!

However in certain cases we would like to know what is the route to go somewhere even if we are not at the start position yet (trip planning).

I think this is a valid use case but one that should be tighly integrated with the app, not just "check route, leave the app". Instead I would prefer if we would have something like

• check route, put a calendar reminder for DateTime .... or
• check route, share it through WhatsApp, email, etc

@mehdisadeghi any opinions here?

[mehdisadeghi]

I think we can definitely do a lot for trip planner. Bookmarking routes is a useful feature I think, sharing a link to a route is also good (for a web version). Calendar reminders is something that I personally don't use with routing apps, except for my tickets.

[carocad]

Bookmarking routes is a useful feature I think

I think I would separate the bookmarking process from the trip planning process. If a user found a place, either through the home page or through the trip planner page, we should offer the posibility to bookmark that place so that it is easier to find it next time

sharing a link to a route is also good (for a web version)

definitely !, although I think it would be best to share a route with another person directly in the app with (for example) deep links.

Calendar reminders is something that I personally don't use with routing apps, except for my tickets.

yeah, if we go to the route of selling online tickets then I guess we would have to offer some connections to other services to make life simple.