[samlearner]

Hey, thanks for the feedback. I actually struggled on what to do with the cursor, since the map is draggable (when not at min zoom level) prior to a click and the default mapbox cursor is denoting that. On balance, I think you're right that a default cursor might be better.

Re: interaction during the run, I thought about allowing you to interact and just pausing the run while you do, but thought that too many people would interact accidentally, pause the run and then not understand that they had to click somewhere to resume. It's a feature that would technically be ideal, but practically would throw a lot of people off-track with incidental interaction I think (I had this same issue with the decision to start the run right away instead of giving the user and overview at the beginning. Technically, I think it would be ideal, practically, I think a lot of people could miss the main feature of the site altogether).

Speed-wise, I've already slowed it down a good amount from the original iteration, if you can believe that, but I could take it down a little more. There's a weird kind of balance in perceptual speed between camera height and true speed, so I've tried to not give a user full control over speed/zoom, because most options are very bad. I can, at least, take the base speed down a little, and maybe give more precise speed control than what's there. Fundamentally, though, I don't want the default setting to take ten minutes for a run, and I also want you to really be able to see the mountains and canyons.

[tantalor]

Google Maps uses pointer by default and "move" when dragging.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor

[MKinley]

Just wanted to say thank you for this tool! I hope you keep it online as I want to use this for my kids as they grow up to teach them this when they reach it in school.

Also, as it stands right now as of this post I found the UI to be fine, the speed was decent and did a good job of following the path without taking too long or being too fast, I think its at a good balance right now.

[caf]

You could make it pause the run when moving the map around, the automatically continue if it's left alone for N seconds, where N is probably around 5.