Centre Map button
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Hello,
yesterday, I used the Navigation application for the first time in a number of years as I intend to use it in South America in Match and April with offline maps as I explore Patagonia by motorcycle.
I thought that I should become familiar with the product so created a route to a local restaurant with a shaping point and a waypoint en-route.
I used my phone running Xiaomi Hyper OS andAndrod using and v5.0.2 - 442 of MRA.
Unfortunately I got a little bit mixed up and lost the line I was supposed to be following. I tried to zoom out and move the map back to where I was but, as I was driving at the time, I was unsuccessful.
Fortunately I knew where I was going!
On the way back home I reversed the route and all started off well but again the route on the map differed from the actual route I had planned (we are talking about rural France here and not many actual options). The directions were not keeping up with where I was and neither was the map. It was as though the route was working in reverse (even through I had changed the route on MRA planning and was running that).
Often, my position was in the middle of nowhere, in fields or in villages when I was obviously on a road.
All the above is very likely user error and I will be carrying out further tests over the next few weeks so that, when I really need it, it works for me!
One key take from my experience was that often, on the map, I couldn't see my position or where I was.
I searched for some sort of "re-centre" button whilst hitting the zoom buttons and scrolling through the compass options between north up, dynamic etc. etc.
Again, obviously user error as it works for everyone else!
Any advice or plans for a re-centre button in future releases?
Nick
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Hello,
yesterday, I used the Navigation application for the first time in a number of years as I intend to use it in South America in Match and April with offline maps as I explore Patagonia by motorcycle.
I thought that I should become familiar with the product so created a route to a local restaurant with a shaping point and a waypoint en-route.
I used my phone running Xiaomi Hyper OS andAndrod using and v5.0.2 - 442 of MRA.
Unfortunately I got a little bit mixed up and lost the line I was supposed to be following. I tried to zoom out and move the map back to where I was but, as I was driving at the time, I was unsuccessful.
Fortunately I knew where I was going!
On the way back home I reversed the route and all started off well but again the route on the map differed from the actual route I had planned (we are talking about rural France here and not many actual options). The directions were not keeping up with where I was and neither was the map. It was as though the route was working in reverse (even through I had changed the route on MRA planning and was running that).
Often, my position was in the middle of nowhere, in fields or in villages when I was obviously on a road.
All the above is very likely user error and I will be carrying out further tests over the next few weeks so that, when I really need it, it works for me!
One key take from my experience was that often, on the map, I couldn't see my position or where I was.
I searched for some sort of "re-centre" button whilst hitting the zoom buttons and scrolling through the compass options between north up, dynamic etc. etc.
Again, obviously user error as it works for everyone else!
Any advice or plans for a re-centre button in future releases?
Nick
@Nick-Dawson ...did you test the same areas to navigate by other apps? For my understanding, your issues sounds like bad gps receive. Can be between high buildings, forests, narrow valleys, etc.
Nothing is impossible ;-)
In past: GARMIN Zumo 210->GARMIN Zumo 395->GARMIN XT=> now: DMD T865-X + MyRoute-App, LocusMaps, OsmAnd.
In past: GARMIN MapSource ->GARMIN BaseCamp->Tyre->Kurviger->Calimoto=> now: MRA-Routplanner. -
@Nick-Dawson ...did you test the same areas to navigate by other apps? For my understanding, your issues sounds like bad gps receive. Can be between high buildings, forests, narrow valleys, etc.
@Guzzist yes I did.
I ended up near the restaurant using MRA but a the wrong end of a one way street so, as I was short on time, I switched to WAZE which took me back a few hundred yards, along to another roundabout the back to the other end of that one way street. The restaurant was a couple of hundred metres away.
I have used MRA navigation a couple of times successfully with simply entering a destination - and it worked perfectly.
This was the first time I used it with routes (and the route was pretty straightforward).
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@Guzzist yes I did.
I ended up near the restaurant using MRA but a the wrong end of a one way street so, as I was short on time, I switched to WAZE which took me back a few hundred yards, along to another roundabout the back to the other end of that one way street. The restaurant was a couple of hundred metres away.
I have used MRA navigation a couple of times successfully with simply entering a destination - and it worked perfectly.
This was the first time I used it with routes (and the route was pretty straightforward).
@Nick-Dawson ... sorry Nick, I still have a solution for you. Could slightly be a map error also.
If you talk about route: did you plan your route with several waypoints (routepoints) - or was it simply a A to B route, or a roundtrip?I use MRA for route planning and afterwards MyRoute-App for navigation since years in Europe. But such an issue - my location is indicated in the map at a wrong area - I have never seen. Only exception: as I wrote in big cities between skyscrapers, in tunnels, etc...
Nothing is impossible ;-)
In past: GARMIN Zumo 210->GARMIN Zumo 395->GARMIN XT=> now: DMD T865-X + MyRoute-App, LocusMaps, OsmAnd.
In past: GARMIN MapSource ->GARMIN BaseCamp->Tyre->Kurviger->Calimoto=> now: MRA-Routplanner. -
Hello,
yesterday, I used the Navigation application for the first time in a number of years as I intend to use it in South America in Match and April with offline maps as I explore Patagonia by motorcycle.
I thought that I should become familiar with the product so created a route to a local restaurant with a shaping point and a waypoint en-route.
I used my phone running Xiaomi Hyper OS andAndrod using and v5.0.2 - 442 of MRA.
Unfortunately I got a little bit mixed up and lost the line I was supposed to be following. I tried to zoom out and move the map back to where I was but, as I was driving at the time, I was unsuccessful.
Fortunately I knew where I was going!
On the way back home I reversed the route and all started off well but again the route on the map differed from the actual route I had planned (we are talking about rural France here and not many actual options). The directions were not keeping up with where I was and neither was the map. It was as though the route was working in reverse (even through I had changed the route on MRA planning and was running that).
Often, my position was in the middle of nowhere, in fields or in villages when I was obviously on a road.
All the above is very likely user error and I will be carrying out further tests over the next few weeks so that, when I really need it, it works for me!
One key take from my experience was that often, on the map, I couldn't see my position or where I was.
I searched for some sort of "re-centre" button whilst hitting the zoom buttons and scrolling through the compass options between north up, dynamic etc. etc.
Again, obviously user error as it works for everyone else!
Any advice or plans for a re-centre button in future releases?
Nick
- the recenter button is simply the compass icon.
- The strange behaviour (in reverse) on your way back could be by route points being placed on one way streets, or the wrong side of a road with split lanes.
I am just an enthusiastic MRA user, and hope you will be one too!
Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebar to the saddle.
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@Nick-Dawson ... sorry Nick, I still have a solution for you. Could slightly be a map error also.
If you talk about route: did you plan your route with several waypoints (routepoints) - or was it simply a A to B route, or a roundtrip?I use MRA for route planning and afterwards MyRoute-App for navigation since years in Europe. But such an issue - my location is indicated in the map at a wrong area - I have never seen. Only exception: as I wrote in big cities between skyscrapers, in tunnels, etc...
@Guzzist thank you for your reply.
I do the same as you regarding planning and utilisation so it is not that.
I have another test tomorrow on my way to the golf course. Four points (start, finish,mone shaping point and one waypoint).
Total distance about 6km.
Rural roads.
Let's see what happens.
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- the recenter button is simply the compass icon.
- The strange behaviour (in reverse) on your way back could be by route points being placed on one way streets, or the wrong side of a road with split lanes.
@Con-Hennekens thank you for your response.
I have another test tomorrow.
The points were not on one way streets or split lanes (this is rural France!).
Let's put that day down to experience and see how my next test goes.
