We’re working with our designer to add maps to the Lines app. We envision two primary uses:
To display wait times across the park in map form instead of in a list
To display point-to-point walking paths in the park
The map below is a very early version for the MK.
We’d like your feedback on it.
A couple of things I’m specifically concerned with, for guests who are not familiar with the parks:
If you’ve never been to the park, we need to be able to give you some sort of visual indication of what you’re near, so you feel comfortable that we know where you are in the park.
As you’re following the walking directions we give you, we need to show you some landmarks you’re passing so that you know you’re on the right path.
I think this could be really helpful, especially to show the entrance vs. exit of a ride which isn’t always apparent on Disney’s map but can make a big difference for certain rides. Is that what you envision, that the start point will be the ride exit, and the end point is the entrance to the next ride?
I’m not sure about the green tree shapes. A lot of those are backstage buildings, not trees, so if someone was looking for greenery they wouldn’t find it. I don’t mind the way you have it on the website map where it is grayed out (IIRC).
One thing I would love to see in a map is for it to change orientation based on the direction you are walking, like Waze does when you are driving. That’s not the way that MDE does it, and is very disorienting. Many times I’ve walked in one direction, thinking I’m going the correct way, and find out I’ve walked in the freaking wrong direction.
In regards to you are here how about the whole map is slightly washed out in colour and only the circle representing current location is in full colour this stops the arrow/pin etc blocking the map.
My initial reaction is that this is a huge improvement from TP’s old maps! Yet I like that it is not too stylized like Disney’s official maps. It’s a good balance.
Personally I would find this very readable and useful, even if (I imagine) I wasn’t as familiar with WDW as I am.
I love looking at maps when making touring plans to visually see how well the sequence flows, and these look fantastic to me - definitely more visually appealing than the current ones!
I like the level of detail with major attraction names and little icons. It’s unclear to me where some of the small paths lead.
I like the idea of somehow adding information on entrance/exit locations (which can be hard to find if you don’t know the park), but also recognize this could make things look overly complicated. Is there a way to show/hide that layer as needed? I would have also loved to see locations for stroller parking back when we still relied on strollers (I used to scour satellite maps to find stroller parking before 7DMT and FoP rope drops where a few seconds can make a difference!)
Any chance you’ll also be doing UOR? It’s harder for me to assess WDW maps now that I’m so familiar with the parks, but I’m in the process of planning our family’s first UOR trip this June, and would be happy to test UOR visuals if that would help!
To add another layer of noise, could this be a toggle? I nearly always know what direction I’m walking and in what direction my goal is. The re-orientation of some nav-aid maps counter to North being up, is disorienting. Most Disney maps seemed not to know that. One park had north at the bottom of the map.
My favorite park maps have always been from EasyWDW. RIP Josh. The maps at the bottom of the touring plans are similar to those but need more identifying information for a map reading challenged person like myself. I don’t need trees or decoration, just clear labels on the attraction/ building instead of a key.
We’d like your feedback on it. 
