Add back MGLUserTrackingMode

[georgbachmann]

New Feature

The old version of Mapbox had a MGLUserTrackingMode.
So the ability to 1. locate the user, 2. follow the user and 3. follow the user with heading.
Those were very convenient and seem to be missing in V10?!?

Why

It is a very convenient feature for the user to orientate himself on the map

[georgbachmann]

Is there any update on this @ZiZasaurus ?!? (Hope it's fine to mention you here, but you answered previous requests of mine)

The problem is that it's quite hard to do that manually. Especially detecting the part where the user interacts with the map manually (by dragging on it) that would end the whole user-tracking-mode thing.

MapKit maps has this feature and the old version did as well.
For our app this is a quite important feature and currently a blocker for us, beside the very sluggish user-heading arrow
(#1230) and the not so nice to use zooming (#755) (the later is very important for us)

We'd really like to make the switch to V10 soon, but for us, where the map is a very essential part of the app, those are blockers.

Would be great to know if those bug/missing features will be addressed and if so a time-frame would be awesome! :)
Thanks a lot for reading!

[ZiZasaurus]

@georgbachmann happy to help! Have you seen our tracking mode example here?

[georgbachmann]

@ZiZasaurus thanks a lot! Yes, I've seen this sample and started to implement my solution like that.
But its a very basic example.

When the user starts to interact with the map, that whole follow-mode thing should stop. But it's not that easy to reliably detect that. Cause movement by the map might not be from the user. You also don't want to stop it immediately, but only after a certain threshold. Users should be able to zoom in and out and keep the tracking mode. All things that are not that easy to implement, when you (the developer) does not really own the mapview with all it's gesture-recognizers and so on.

The previous version of mapbox had that feature implemented. Google maps has it, Apple maps has it. Then it would work the same for all the users using mapbox...

And again... I think implementing a really good solution will be hard now knowing e.g if the user is currently interacting with the map and so on.

In our app the map is a very important part, so we really want nice interaction with the map. And this issue is a quite big one for us, besides the other two mentioned issues.

But thanks a lot for reading and I hope you consider bringing back that tracking-mode.

[Args]

Agree! MGLUserTrackingMode is very convenient.

[skienzl]

Agree as well. A well implemented tracking-mode like MGLUserTrackingMode would be a huge help!

[ZiZasaurus]

Hi all, viewport is the replacement for MGLUserTrackingMode. We have an example here that demonstrates its usage.