MRA 6.0.0 515 – Removal of the "Navigate routes as tracks" option and problems with outdated road closures in HERE

[Reinhard Punz]

In my region (southwestern Lower Austria), HERE map data has recently been frequently showing outdated road closures. Sometimes roads remain marked as closed for months, even years, even though they have reopened.

Navigate as a track was a useful solution because it allowed me to follow my originally planned route without taking unnecessary detours due to inaccurate road closure information in HERE.

In version 6.0.0 515, I can no longer find this option.

I have found a temporary workaround: I activate the "Show original route" option in the navigation app and follow it manually when I am certain that the road is actually open. The downside of this solution is that MRA constantly recalculates the route and provides navigation instructions, which can be quite confusing.

And this solution only works as long as the web planner has up-to-date information and allows the desired route in the first place. If the web planner also accesses outdated road closures, I'm currently unaware of any way to ignore incorrect road closures.

My questions for the developers:

In version 6.0.0, is there a way to navigate a planned route independently of HERE's road closure information, as was previously possible with track navigation?

If not, could you envision introducing a feature that allows users to deliberately disable individual road closures (i.e., the opposite of the existing option to create custom road closures)? Of course, this carries the risk of encountering a closed road – but the responsibility for that would lie with the user.