New Beta! (v4.0.3) Motorhome & Motorcycle

[Arno 0]

Do I understand correctly that the camper transport mode can only be used for routes and not for a-b routing?

[Nick Carthew]

@Arno-0 Correct

[Lynchy67]

@Rob-Verhoeff

You can, but you would have to export as GPX1.1 and re-import then re-colour WP’s and and re-add the relevant icons.
Not ideal, but if this is the how it has to be, then so be it.
My OCD will not allow me to have a car icon when I can now have a Crash Helmet Icon

[Arno 0]

@Nick-Carthew Thanks. Then it’s a nice future improvement to make the camper transport mode also available for a-b routing . I mostly do not create a route for travelling in the Netherlands from home to a camper location.

[Rob Verhoeff]

@Nick-Carthew @Arno-0 An A-B route. When I click on the helmet, the other options appear. If I choose a camper route, then the app does show a different route indeed.

[Nick Carthew]

@Rob-Verhoeff Thank you. I am happy to be corrected.

[Arno 0]

@Rob-Verhoeff Thanks and you’re right . In the first screen after you’ve selected your destination, you can change the transport mode by clicking on the icon with the currently selected transport mode (car, bicycle, motorcycle, camper etc.). I didn’t notice this before .

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Arno-0 @Nick-Carthew @Rob-Verhoeff Campers can definitely be used for A-B routes!

I’ll look into a way to quickly change transport modes for routes. Now you will indeed always use the transport mode as indicated by the planned route.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Doug-Robinson the zoom correction really just slightly zooms in / out. However, the difference between “—“ and “++” is a full zoom level (quite much).
If the app zoom wasn’t an issue for you, leave it as is.

If you however always prefer a bit more / less zoom, this is the place to be.

Besides this option, we improved the app zooming when driving faster >60kph or on the highway. We then zoom out slightly more as community (and personal) opinion was that the app would be zoomed in too much on highways. This cannot be turned off.

[Arno 0]

If you turn off the use of toll roads while in camper transport mode, it also turns off the use of highways. This is only in camper transport mode and not in car or motorcycle transport mode.

[RetiredWingMan]

@Nick-Carthew thank you. I'll have to play with the zoom setting to see what the impact is. I always felt that the zoom level was too high allowing a look down the road of only about 300 m. I prefer 1 to 2 km.

I look forward to a time when certain settings, such as route options (avoid options for example), can be saved and automatically loaded based on selected travel mode. I tend to use different options when traveling by car vs motorcycle.

[Lynchy67]

@Corjan-Meijerink

With this 4.0.3 update I am now getting the following screen regarding Google?
I am aware others had this in the previous version.

Should I ignore it and select No?
Previously my location has been very accurate on Android.

I can’t get out on the bike to test until tomorrow.

[Nick Carthew]

@Lynchy67 If you answer yes, Google will then require further information - shoe size, favourite colour, what you had for breakfast etc etc

[Lynchy67]

@Nick-Carthew

Thanks for the clarification Nick.
Just wanted to be sure.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Lynchy67 yeah, enable it!
But did you have issues before? I only expect people that had the annoying popup about Google before to see this prompt.

[Lynchy67]

@Corjan-Meijerink

No I never had this issue before with any previous updates.
It appeared with v4.0.3

I also have an iOS Next account, so considering getting an iPhone.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Lynchy67 thanks! You should have at some point then also seen a notification that the Google services were disabled.

However, I will make some tweaks based on your response As you did not have the issue before, your Google services should not have been disabled.

[richtea999]

@Lynchy67 said in New Beta! (v4.0.3) Motorhome & Motorcycle:

@Corjan-Meijerink

With this 4.0.3 update I am now getting the following screen regarding Google?
I am aware others had this in the previous version.

Should I ignore it and select No?
Previously my location has been very accurate on Android.

Normally you'll see that if 'Google Location Accuracy' is off (found in the Location -> Location services settings of Android).

When disabled, it used to lock you out of the app. Not any more - so that's a great improvement.

If you don't want to see it, then press 'Yes' and it will lead you to enable the Google Location Accuracy.

[richtea999]

@Corjan-Meijerink

However, for Corjan's benefit, although it's no longer locking you out, the app-based popup (rather than Google's) does continue to nag you:

• on restarting a route
• on stopping a route
• cancelling a selected route (i.e. not pressing 'Start')
• tapping anywhere in the default map with no route selected yet

It would be nice to remember the users choice, either once per app startup, or even in an app setting somewhere so the nag isn't repeated quite so often.

But there are more important things to work on. Just bringing it to your attention.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@richtea999 thanks for calling it a great improvement!
Happy you tested it.

I assume there is an issue with the Google location services if the app doesn’t know where you are after 5 seconds. I guess Steve had bad reception when first opening the update and this assumption was then therefore wrong.

For the release I’ll either increase this duration and research more if I can actually tell if the services were disabled