@Herman-Veldhuizen said in First point is often ignored:
I am quite sure that every new user will at some point get surprised by this nearest point issue.
Considering the ZERO (+1) questions about it on the forum I am pretty sure it won't.
I am not saying no improvement is possible, but I do think you are probably overthinking it.
When the accuracy of the gps position is good, could it be a smaller? The problem with misplaced waypoints is not limited to the start.
Whether a WP is hit or not does not depend on the position of the waypoint itself, but on the projected position ON the road. That means that the actual start of the routeline, or the little black dot you see on the road if you place a WP next to it. And YES, this feature IS limited to the start, because that is when you continuously get send back to it when you start a route passed that point a little bit, which often happens on parkinglots and driveways. There were MANY complaints about the app keeping you guided back to the start, so YES there actually was a need to treat the start differently.
Or : can the app somehow check upfront wether the Start is misplaced?
It is not about the start being misplaced, it is about the rider being misplaced at the start.
I am used to the message from tomtom when i start navigating to a destination. It tells me the ETA.
That is not a bad idea, but probably most useful in A2B routes (single destination routes). You could of course take a look at your screen too, before driving off
And if you haven't done it yet, i suggest you try out Beeline one day. It doesn't support the concept of navigating to nearest point but is has an interesting way of skipping to next and previous.
I have found myself in positions where I though some kind of back-button to skip back to the previous waypoint would come in very handy indeed. I find myself being too late pressing the revert button if a WP gets auto-skipped. That is because exactly at those moments I tend to be busy taking a wrong turn . So yes, I would welcome such a feature!
please spare me from your analysis on me. It serves no purpose.
Let's try to be respectful to volunteers who just try to be helpful.