New update! (4.3.0) Project sync

[Richard 18]

Great work, the app becomes better and better.

Unfortunately, I hit a definite problem:

https://forum.myrouteapp.com/topic/7752/synchronization-in-the-latest-app-update-a-problem

[TomOnTour]

@Corjan-Meijerink
Wow, that sounds really good. Update wasn't available yesterday evening here in Germany, but now it is. Phone is already downloading

Greetings
Thomas

[Parantapa]

Really great new functions. Also the different views for the maps. Now you can finally see the roads well with Here Map. The synchronisation is also great, but it would be an advantage if you could apply it to individual folders. I also have a lot of routes online, synchronising them all would be too much of a good thing

[Stefan Hummelink]

@Parantapa said in New update! (4.3.0) Project sync:

synchronising them all would be too much of a good thing

Just try it! It will only take 2 minutes or so, and after that, ONLY changes to existing routes, and new routes are synced!

[Ronny Schenkels 0]

Hi,

I am a big fan of MRA, both for the web and the app, I think the team does an amazing job.

Today I noticed that with the new app version 4.3, the width of the lines was not reflected on Carplay: I was using both the app and carplay at the same time, and on the app the lines were wide (as I set the width line parameter to x1.25) but on Carplay they were thin, just as before the update.

Is this a Carplay limitation or is this not implemented on Carplay version yet ?

Ron

iPhone 15 with iOS 17.6.1
Carplay on BMW 430i
Carplay on Innovv N1 Pro (moto)

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Ronny-Schenkels-0 Should work on CarPlay!
Maybe it did not synchronise immediately. Probably it will work as expected when reconnecting to CarPlay again.

Thanks for the kind words

[Hubert Thoring]

@Corjan-Meijerink :

You automatically get a route from a foreign group whose member you are also synchronized with your own mobile phone so that it is also immediately available offline ...

Currently, this does not seem to be offered:

Two steps:

• Open route in group

• Download Route

• Route then first start

If no net and that happens in the mountains what is then?

• App was accidentally stopped during a break

• Route from download load / Start ?? Would be cumbersome

For security for users in the group:

• Do I really have to go cumbersomely through the route lab in the morning and "use" the route means copying ... so it is then synchronized for offline????

We had the problems somehow in Slovenia.

VG

[Con Hennekens]

@Hubert-Thoring said in New update! (4.3.0) Project sync:

If no net and that happens in the mountains what is then?

If you go drive routes that are not in your own library, you need to add them to your downloads, just like with your own routes before the sync update. You can then start those routes from the downloads folder, just like it always was.

Do I really have to go cumbersomely through the route lab in the morning and "use" the route means copying ... so it is then synchronized for offline????

No, just add them to your downloads.

[Arno 0]

@Corjan-Meijerink In the app you can now easily switch between your private routes/tracks and the routes/tracks of Friends, Groups and Events. What I don’t like is that when you switch from routes to track or the other way around, you always go back to your private routes/tracks. For me it would be more logical if you can switch between routes/tracks in the same folder (Private, Froends, Groups or Events).

[martin-phogel.de]

This update is really awesome, great job done!

The new map styles and configurations look especially good, but sometimes I'd like to use the OSM map layer for planning. Are there any schedules for including the existing layers (OSM, TomTom, etc.) in the planner as well?

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Martin-Wilcke Those are not expected
Thanks for the kind words!

[martin-phogel.de]

@Corjan-Meijerink
Are there any particular reasons for different map sets for browsing and planning? Or will the app finally end up with HERE maps only?

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Martin-Wilcke the OSM and TomTom map are available in the web module (Gold abo only) but in the end for navigating you must convert such a route to the Here map because Next uses Here and Here only

[martin-phogel.de]

@Marinus-van-Deudekom
Yes, I know. However, my question is not about different routing engines but about different map layers.

[martin-phogel.de]

@Peter-Schiefer
Agreed.
But to clarify: I'm not comparing the web planner with the app planner. It's about the different map layer sets within the app.
Several map layers are available in "browse/view" mode, including OSM, HERE and TomTom.
In "edit/planning" mode ("MRA Routeplanner"), however, we have one map layer (HERE) with various style options: Vulf, Wong, Dart and a bunch of "edition" options (explore, topo, satellite, etc.)
I'd like to know if this will be harmonised and, if so, in which way.

[Hubert Thoring]

@Martin-Wilcke : My experience with this is, plan no matter with which map and at the very end HERE takes over when routing.

With too few route points, it is not the app that is surprised but the driver.

HERE is the machine base the rest is for better overview.

That's how I understood it.

It was noticed:

• HERE in the web planner

• HERE in the app

Somehow don't seem to be the same as that was just my impression, but can also be due to the now very many setting options ....

VG

[marc van der heijden]

Waar dient dan nu de download map nog voor dan als we voortaan sync'n

[Stefan Hummelink]

@marc-van-der-heijden voor routes of tracks die NIET gesynchroniseerd kunnen worden, te weten: routes van/uit:

• vrienden
• evenementen
• groepen

Deze routes zal je altijd óf moeten overhalen naar je eigen account zodat ze wél gesynchroniseerd kunnen worden óf offline beschikbaar moeten maken. In beide gevallen is dit dus geenszins gesynchroniseerd en altijd handmatige actie. Je hebt dan dus ook nooit automatisch de laatste stand van de route indien de eigenaar van die route wijzigingen aanbrengt... Dit brengt dus ook meteen inzichtelijk hoe waanzin waardevol die sync functie dus eigenlijk wel niet is!

[Con Hennekens]

@Martin-Wilcke said in New update! (4.3.0) Project sync:

Several map layers are available in "browse/view" mode, including OSM, HERE and TomTom.
In "edit/planning" mode ("MRA Routeplanner"), however, we have one map layer (HERE) with various style options: Vulf, Wong, Dart and a bunch of "edition" options (explore, topo, satellite, etc.)
I'd like to know if this will be harmonised and, if so, in which way.

Works is being done on a new completely new and enhanced webplanner. Currently the app-planner and the web-planner are written on different development platforms with different features. I think it would be logical that the new web-planner will be written on the same platform as the app, but I really don't know that. Complicating factor in that is that due to licensing restrictions not everything can be shared cross platform. Hence the TomTom and OSM maps are not available in the app-planner. Future will tell, but there certainly is no wish to keep thing separate

[martin-phogel.de]

@Hubert-Thoring
Hubert,
That sounds like a good strategy - but it is out of the scope of my question. Sorry for the confusion; I will try to clear it up.

The latest upgrade introduced a beautiful new map layer to the app. It is based on HERE, can be configured with three different "colour schemes" (Vulf, Wong, Dart) and six "editions" (Explore, Simplistic, Topo, etc.) and looks like this:

This new map layer, however, is available only for planning/editing routes with the "MRA Routeplanner".

When opening a route for viewing/browsing, on the other hand, we still have the traditional maps where I can pick one out of twelve (MyRoute-app Default, MyRoute-app Street, MyRoute-App Outdoor, HERE, TomTom). Looks like this:

So, we have entirely different maps within the myRoute-app for various purposes. That is quite unusual; all other planning apps I know of use identical map(s) throughout the app.

My question is: Will the "traditional" and "new" maps be harmonised within the myRoute app, or are different maps for separate tasks part of a design concept?

(And to cover this as well: Yes, we still have one HERE "map" in terms of a "routing engine" that is responsible for calculating a route - but this is a different story.)