Data quality and interaction experience issues of lighthouse mapping application
Problem
The lighthouse mapping application suffers from multiple critical issues. First, AI-generated data contains nonsensical encoding (e.g., 'rain as a surface', height in millimeters per day with nothing else encoded), leading to poor data quality. Second, user interactions are flawed, with slow drag panning and pinch-to-zoom instantly teleporting users to wrong locations, causing disorientation. Third, UI elements mislabel regions (e.g., showing 'lighthouses in France' button when not in France), navigation buoys are incorrectly categorized as lighthouses, and the officially stated visibility range of 32 nautical miles significantly differs from user observations of nearly 90 nautical miles, indicating accuracy problems.
Pain points
- Poor data quality, AI-generated absurd text ('Rain as a surface; Height is millimeters of rain per day. Nothing else encoded')
- Bad user experience: slow drag panning, pinch-to-zoom instantly teleports user to wrong location, causing disorientation
- Incorrect UI labels: shown 'lighthouses in France' button when not in France
- Mis-categorization: navigation buoys incorrectly marked as lighthouses
- Inaccurate visibility range: officially stated visible at 32 nautical miles, but observed at nearly 90 nautical miles, significant discrepancy
Questions to verify
- Do you find the current data encoding (e.g., 'rain as a surface') impactful for your use case?
- Have you experienced zoom or orientation disorientation while using the application?
- Would you abandon the tool or seek alternatives due to label errors or category confusion?
Evidence
Aside from the incredibly low quality of the data, this jumps out as being vibe coded due to the unbeleviably stupid text."Rain as a surface; Height is millimetres of rain per day. Nothing else is encoded."Why does AI generated ridiculous sentences like these?
pinch to zoom is broken (Firefox on Android here). Also: why am I shown a button labeled 'lighthouses in France' when I'm not actually looking at France?
This seems like it maps way more than just lighthouses. Looking at puget sound, at least, it seems to mark all the navigation buoys as lighthouses as well.
I like the idea. But it was a bit jarring that panning with my finger took ages and then pinching to zoom insta-faceplanted me into the Labrador interior.If anyone wants to mount a rescue, I’m somewhere near a lighthouse.
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