Zoom Scale
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Hi guys, in the meantime I really like the MRA functionality and it is my preferred app for navigation via a smartphone. I hope the battery drain will get solved as this is IMO the major disadvantage here. I know you work with HERE but other apps like Scenic use HERE too and do not have such power consumption.
One think that I am missing is a zoom scale telling me for instance how sharfp a upcoming turn / curve is so I can adapt my speed - yet I know thios only if I know at which zoomlevel I am currently on my map. Would it be possible to add this to the map layout?
Many thanks for this cool app anyway
Adam
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hi @Adam-Sobanski said in Zoom Scale:
One think that I am missing is a zoom scale telling me for instance how sharfp a upcoming turn / curve is so I can adapt my speed
doesn't this tell you how sharp a curve is, when it is moving away you can speed up, moving closer you should slow down.
for me it is much safer to rely on my road skills than a nav screen, yes the screen may show me that i have a series of bends or a switchback ahead, but, personally i would not regulate my speed on the reliance of a nav screen
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@paul69 Hi Paul, thanks for the comment - yet, I did not ask for a teaching how to ride safely but for a functionality that should be standard anyway on a map. Regards, Adam
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Having a visible scale in itself is not a bad idea, it gives reference to how far you are actually looking forward on the map. To be readable though, it would likely take up too much screen estate.
I disagree that it is like a standard feature, since most apps and devices I know don't have that either. Paper maps usually do, but they don't zoom . I do agree that it is ill practise to use it as a method for deciding how fast to approach corners.
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How would the scale work when you have your map view set with tilt. Parallax would make any scale inaccurate and therefore worthless.
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@Nick-Carthew, good point, but I think that it is still possible. I remember an earlier suggestion I posed, to make the circle around the flyer a fixed size, let's say 25 mtrs in diameter on the map for example. The further you are zoomed out, the smaller that circle gets, giving you an indication of the scale. Only the scale at the position of the flyer is interesting I think, because you can relate that to your position in the real world. And this is not exact like a scale on a paper map, but noone is measuring distances on screen with a ruler to calculate the distance in reality
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@Nick-Carthew pretty simple: set the map to a view without tilt
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@Adam-Sobanski
I am really speachless.
First, I remeber the years with my Navigon, best Sat Nav ever, not beated up to now and these Navs are now 12 years history. When I was driving in the Alp Mountains with my car, it was possible by the graph of the route to get an impression of the upcoming curves, and this without a scale. But it is only an impression. What the map not can do, is given you an impression of the visibility in the real corner and afterwards.So the only thing you can do is the following.
Don‘t drive faster as your guardian angel can fly AND see.It happened to me not only once, that behind the apex of a curve I had to brake harder, not an emergeny brake, cause of my defense drive, due to not before visible obstacles, like lost truck wheel, cars with a breakdown, bikers (with no brain!) passing a car, being on my lane and others.
Driving like on a race track is nothing for public roads.
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@Con-Hennekens Scenic have it and I like it a lot
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@Peter-Schiefer I am even more speechless, how you conclude (same as Paul) that I want to race or what so ever. It is so tiring to run across so many teachers in forums like that.
I asked for a simple feature and instead I am told how to drive safely and that I am driving too fast - Guys, just read my text and stop reading between the lines or whatever you do or try to do.
If you cannot contribute to my request, just don’t write anything -
So, than back what I had done and sometimes do.
I look on the map and see the at usual zoom level on country roads and a driving speed between 60-110 km on a 7-8“ Display a total real distance of about the next 500 to 1000 m, not more. And by this I am able without a scale at the bottom of the screen to estimate the next curve angles and radius.I got the impression, younger poeple like to trust more more and more the technique and loss their feeling of dimensions
By the way, a problem which captain Sullenberger complaints too, regard the modern training and systems of pilots after his water ditch in the Hudson. But he is as me from an older generation. -
@Peter-Schiefer thanks for calling me a young guy- which I am definitely not. You are too much reading between the lines and assuming things that are not there. I am 56 btw., not racing, careful rider, 25 years of experience on motorcycles,…
I do not need tips and advice in how to ride. Just asked for something that Iike to use - that’s it -
@Adam-Sobanski
Then please alow me the question. What do you expect as an experinced driver from such information for next curve which is as described depends to the zoomfactor and speed just before you in visibilty and you need to adjust yourself by what you see on the road, the road condition and traffic. There is no time to calculate a curve radius by a scale of just a fingernail, width, representing eg. just 100 m related to the map and by just a zoom change 200 m.
And this on a bike, which need quite more attention to everything arround than driving a car.I believe and I am very sure, there is while driving no advantage.
Again I use Nav sastem from 5 to 7“ displaysize since 2006 by holiday trips and by my job on the road now nearly two decades. The course and windyness of the upcoming next visible distance on the display indicates what I can expect next in turns and directions. Curves with a right angle, a wide radius, U-Turns, hairpins. And then I have my eyes on the road. -
Locking this post as I don’t see it leading to a productive conversation
@Adam-Sobanski thanks for the suggestion
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