It seems your character in this game is equipped with an iPad. You have access to fancy, futuristic menus and even a Google Earth-like map complete with GPS and satellite imagery. How do you rationalize that from a role playing perspective?
The menu is just a menu, a necessary immersion breaking moment needed to smoothly play any game really. The map...well he's tapping into his dragon soul for a moment and closes his eyes to see what a dragon sees as it soars over the terrain.
Haha, not a bad one now that I think about it, but honestly I just see the map as...a pretty map. I've even gotten pretty used to it, it was kind of a pain at first but it's starting to get easier to interpret and follow now.