New map and vessel details page are horrible.
How in the world is this "design" an improvement over anything?
Visually ugly, not easy on the eyes and even confusing.
Somehow the vessel detail page is also loading each "frame" (vessel photos, voyage timeline, etc) randomly it seems, aside from Voyage Information and Latest Position (thank god).
Like if I open it up for three different vessels the Vesse Photos sometimes is right under Voyage Information, sometimes it's on the right (under Latest Position), sometimes I need to scroll further down to find Events Timeline and sometimes it's on the right and not as far down but with the Vesse Photos on the left column below Voyage Information and Summary (there's also some odd Vessel Details Wiki but only for some vessels...).
Maybe it always was like this but just the current map layout and stuff is highlighting these things for me? Maybe.
But overall it's rather chaotic (not sure what's going on with the Vessel Details page, where I'm taken after selecting a ship from the map and clicking on Vessel Details) and just overall bad and confusing.
Also found another annoyance with the live map. There's an invisible wall, so to say, in the top portion where I can't move the vessel window into. Even though I'm not anywhere near the Search Marine Traffic bar itself. Nitpick in a way but feels unnecessarily clunky when I'm trying to position things alongside the map and where the vessel icons on the map are.
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Hello Arnar,
I would like to thank you for taking the time to reach out and share your feedback about the new LiveMap.
Rest assured that I have already forwarded it along to the appropriate team for review.
While the new map layout was a business decision, it is crucial for us to be aware of what dedicated users such as yourself are thinking about this change.
The new version was a result of long term user feedback among other things, but we of course understand that the MarineTraffic LiveMap has been the same for a very long time and we sincerely welcome your thoughts regarding the layout.
For anything else that you may need, or wish to share, please do not hesitate; I am here for you and happy to assist.
Kindest regards,
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Thanks, one more thing I just noticed with the live map. If I go to the dark map (dark mode), the font retains some sort of artistic style or whatever where sure it's sorta light and readable if the font is over the dark area of the ocean.
But if it's like series of fjords and the name goes "on land" then the font is in a very similar light-greyish tone making it almost unreadable. It really should have some outline or a completely different colour to the ocean AND the land portions.
I'll attach a screenshot, from southern portion of Westfjords, Iceland. There are series of various narrow / small / etc fjords there with long names and all that.
Makes this unusuable if I'm told, for example, "so and so boat is in blahblah-fjord / a whale stranded in so-and-so-fjord, please see if someone is nearby or if you could check it out" then I'd honestly go to google maps to use alongside Marine Traffic's live map (for nearby boats and such AIS locations etc) .
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