suggestion: track recording visualisation

Drabslab

Hai,

Last saturday I drove around in a relatively small area scouting for interesting places to visit.

So, the whole day I did point to point navigation (often using the same roads) and I had track recording on the whole day.

The annoying thing was that the yellow track line came on top of the blue navigation line making it difficult to navigate.

can you change that so that the blue line is always on top?

or did i do something wrong (again)

Jörgen

Do you have a screenshot?
Usually the recorded track should be behind you, the blue in driving direction, or you drive again an already recorded track.

Drabslab

@Jörgen
@Jörgen said in suggestion: track recording visualisation:

Usually the recorded track should be behind you, the blue in driving direction, or you drive again an already recorded track.

that is only the case when you drive a single route from A to B. As soon as you do multiple A-B navigation you may take the same road several times leading to track hiding the route

Nick Carthew

Hi @Drabslab. I would imagine that in most cases, the yellow tracklog line would be behind the route line so your experience on Saturday would not be encountered very often, but you do make a very good point. I agree that the yellow tracklog line should be underneath the blue route line. There is the choice in Navigation settings > Screen layout to turn off the tracklog line but I prefer your request.

Drabslab

@Nick-Carthew

Hai Nick, last saturday I used Next in a completely different way than usual and to drive almost randomly through an area. Destinations were picked at the spurr of the moment trying to find interesting place to visit with a group.

First ambition was to quickly visit potentially interesting churches, war memorials, breweries, musea ... and to prepare a roadtrip on something else but pictures on the internet. (and have some fun driving around )

In general, it worked quite well but it also showed this small shortcoming, and it demonstrated that the point of interest/favorites feature could use a serious update.

@Nick-Carthew said in suggestion: track recording visualisation:

There is the choice in Navigation settings > Screen layout to turn off the tracklog line but I prefer your request.

Yep, but i wanted to see the tracklog while riding, and my request does not exclude maintining to option to turn it off

Nick Carthew

@Drabslab Interesting that you mention churches before breweries

I can only fully agree with your request and I would even go further by asking for a slightly less visible tracklog line, maybe a little thinner so that it doesn't draw your eye away from your position indicator and the route ahead.

Bart De Medts

@Nick-Carthew same request ️

Corjan Meijerink

I just turn the tracklog line off - very curious what the developers will do about this ugly line. Oh wait, would that be me?

Nick Carthew

@Corjan-Meijerink said in suggestion: track recording visualisation:

I just turn the tracklog line off - very curious what the developers will do about this ugly line. Oh wait, would that be me?

Very easy when you have a swanky bar button controller

Seriously though, I do think that a thinner and therefore less prominent tracklog line would be nice

Drabslab

@Nick-Carthew said in suggestion: track recording visualisation:

@Drabslab Interesting that you mention churches before breweries

My wife is reading this forum as well

Nick Carthew

@Drabslab said in suggestion: track recording visualisation:

@Nick-Carthew said in suggestion: track recording visualisation:

@Drabslab Interesting that you mention churches before breweries

My wife is reading this forum as well

Drabslab

@Corjan-Meijerink said in suggestion: track recording visualisation:

I just turn the tracklog line off

in the use case i scetched earlier, you want the track recording to be on all the time because it is very helpfull during, and after the trip when finally makign the route for the group.