Free ride not possible with new update

[stuart marritt]

When in landscape mode with the new update you can't see the full map using free ride all you see is the menu and no way to hide it.

[Corjan Meijerink]

Correct, a dedicated free drive mode will be added later.

For now you could long press the navigate button on a route to enable a sort of free drive
This is default for walking / cycling.

Note (hint): a route could just contain a random single waypoint

[stuart marritt]

Thanks for that

[Guzzist]

@Corjan-Meijerink please what do you mean with "Navigation Button" at home screen?
I tried with an extra created route with only one route point in. By starting the navigation, I got the message "no route could be calculated".
If I switch before this to use offline maps - than it worked.

[Jörgen]

@Guzzist see this video from me: https://www.facebook.com/groups/myrouteapp.de/posts/2277583002713813/?__cft__[0]=AZVWNuTt1vlpY9FbXU6jWR9YxxYRZPdEdWx2fjhp_oq0tQVSgHJbOzThTKOrb-Ejq_WwoEIOhLTZojR4NXupttyNJerPpDdk8hHuZDF5SPqR746WTYhTzK4OdNn0d_zZiedGfBqOdgIP4tZTOv7OS0hSTSZ5RA9cVcxqN4dGrdC1vAGK5MTXqyCTjLbqvA144x3Dt-UHC9kfSTg0MT_bVGlX&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

[Con Hennekens]

@Guzzist, if you long-press the Navigate button when you start a route, it starts in "follow-the-line" mode. When you make a route with only one waypoint (eg your home address or whatever), you can start that route without a line in follow the line mode, and see the full map. It's a work-around until a real free-drive mode is available.

@Jörgen, that's a private group. If you want to share a video, please use a public option.

[Guzzist]

@Jörgen thank you verry much for the linked video. But I'm sorry, I don't have Facebook.

@Con-Hennekens thank you verry much for the hint. I now understand, it's not beginning on the home screen, but by opening a route.

In meantime I figured out:

• if I create an extra created route with only one route point in (may my home base), and starting the navigation, I will get the message "no route could be calculated". So it doesn't work.
• if I select this extra created route, and open it for edit, and switch to use offline maps just before start navigation - then it works
• if I select this extra created route, and longpress button "Navigate" - then it workes too (in both modes: offline and online maps)
• if I'm at map on home screen and longpress icon "position indicator" on map - then I get the submenue with buttons "Navigate" and others. And if I press this button, I get a sub-submenue with button "Start". If I press this - it worked too - just responds: "reached your destination". But it worked then also as freeride mode.

As mentioned before, it's a workaround. For a real freeride mode, min. current speed limitations must be populated.
But Corjan has promised for later...

[Jörgen]

@Guzzist said in Free ride not possible with new update:

if I select this extra created route, and longpress button "Navigate" - then it workes too (in both modes: offline and online maps)

Exactly, and that's what it's designed for.

Here the video: https://youtu.be/1RL0z0LxDew

[Con Hennekens]

@Guzzist said in Free ride not possible with new update:

if I select this extra created route, and longpress button "Navigate" - then it workes too (in both modes: offline and online maps)

Is indeed, a route with a single waypoint makes no route, so it cannot be calculated, but following the map can be don by the long-press instead. It is what it is for now