Updated beta! 5.2.1 (486)

[Corjan Meijerink]

Hi all!

Yes....Google is taking it's time to check Android.
Nothing I can do about that.

While waiting I've already given them something new to check!
iOS available instantly for beta testers.

Nothing new, no features or whatsover.
Only stability improvements!

What I need from you? More driving.
What I need from Google? Quicker review!

Cheers,
Corjan

[Jörgen]

@Corjan-Meijerink said:

What I need from you? More driving.

It's way too hot in the Rhineland for riding a motorcycle. This heat slows everything down. It'll be better next week.

[Lluis Arasanz]

@Jörgen

If you find wheather is "hot" in Germany... better don't come to Spain. Here, 40 degrees are on fire this days.

Regards!!!

[Con Hennekens]

Even in the Netherlands we have been experiencing 35 to 39 degrees for a never seen before extended period.

[Nick Carthew]

• Search other areas on the map.
  Checked and working well.

• Vehicle specific (online) search suggestions.
  Checked and working well.
  I used By foot as transport mode and the app suggested places for drinking water, picnic stops, shelters etc etc all were correct.
  I then used Bicycle, some bicycle shops and bicycle repair places were missing from my local area but others were found, that’s map data not the app.
  As I live in a tourist area Motorhome transport mode gives me a long list of campsites and facilities locally. I also checked this in other areas of the UK and it worked perfectly.
  There are some motorcycle shop/repair places missing in Motorcycle mode but again that’s missing map data.

So to summarise I would say that vehicle specific search is working well.

• Fix not being able to navigate to a POI
  Navigate to a POI is fixed.

• Allow editing POI name
  Editing a POI name is fixed.

• Major stability improvements app and CarPlay
  I can’t comment on this as I have no access to CarPlay and the only instability I have had with the app is the occasional freezing of the upcoming waypoint and map spinning when stationary. I will of course send feedback should the upcoming waypoint freeze again. I’m sort of used to the map spinning now, I will miss it when HERE fixes it.

• Improve app loading
  App loading was never an issue for me.

[richtea999]

@Nick-Carthew said:
... that’s map data not the app.
... but again that’s missing map data.

Maybe MRA could do a deal with HERE:

• give MRA users the option to 'Add a Missing Place' from within the app/planner (HERE has one but very few users will know that, or bother to look)
• HERE gives MRA the updates first as a reward for improving their dataset

Not a core feature, but it deflects complaints about data quality.

Good quality crowd-sourced data is tricky to gather. If I was HERE I'd be paying MRA to develop it.