New beta! 4.3.4 (369) - massive navigation improvements
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This is why sensible people buys apps, not GPS hardware - the ability to improve and turn around those improvements in months, not years.
And, just as importantly, add or modify features because real users asked you to do it, not the 'marketing' department.
Good work Corjan, Joost.
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Superb work as always #TeamMRA
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Hi everyone!
It has been over a month since the 4.3.3 beta was started
The wait has been worth it for sure as we have been cracking our heads to improve the core of our app. Obviously it's nice to create fun features but after all we are a navigation app so it also makes sense to improve the navigation itself
A lot of fundamental aspects have been improved beyond imagination
With this update, the app will become your default go-to navigation app! I am extremely proud of the work Joost and I have accomplished 
Track navigation
Yes, it existed. With that, most was said.
Generate a scenic route or roundtour and away you go!
Diverting from the route or losing an internet connection would result in major issues
Now not anymore!
Track navigation works completely offline! When you go offline (either by choice or chance) the track navigation will continue working and recalculating! There might be minor differences compared to the online calculation but you are warned about that. Besides that, the original calculation will always remain visible
When you divert from your track, you will be redirected to the nearest logical point on the track. Yes, you might be sent back (depending on the location) but eventually (or immediately) you will be sent to another logical point on the track. Do you want to navigate to another section of the track? Just long press near the point where you want to rejoin!
Do you prefer navigating routes as track? Leave the already existing setting as you have it and away you go!
This works similar to the GPX 1.2 format on your Garmin.
This means that even while navigating a track, you can skip your viapoints
How amazing is that! Because you are navigating a track, shapingpoints are obviously not included. After skipping a viapoint, the fastest route is calculated to the next viapoint 
When loading a track, you can now also change the setting to start from the nearest point on the track!
Long pressing near the point where you want to continue your track, also works before starting the navigation!
With this update, track navigation has been elevated to a level you could not have imagined. To be brutally honest, I have ridden a lot of routes as tracks and this might become my preferred method of navigating
Dynamic routing
Whenever you're going from A to B, you often get into traffic and a faster route becomes available. When you've enabled traffic optimisation we will now continuously search for faster routes!
After accepting the new route (which will happen when you don’t decide within a certain time) you will still see the original route.
Traffic warnings
For all types of navigation, it is interesting to know if you are driving into traffic or pass an accident. Now that we are introducing the dynamic routing as explained above, it makes a lot of sense to also warn about traffic related events on your route.
We will inform you about:
- Traffic flow delays (significantly queued traffic)
- Traffic incidents (accidents, closed lanes etc)
- Road work (known construction)
You can choose the enabled categories yourself from the settings.
When enabled we will show an icon on the map, update the line to show the length of the delay and push a visual / audio warning.If a faster alternative route is available, that will automatically be suggested too!
Destination reached
The amount of discussion on this topic on the forum has been incredible. Since the release of the app, people have different preferences regarding what the app should do when arriving at your destination.
Now the app will prompt to stop navigation after reaching it.
The default setting is that navigation will stop.
You can disable this behavior. In that case, when no choice is made, it will continue navigating as it currently does.Updated settings
Check out all the updated settings and play around!
Most changes are within the functional settings
Automatic recalculations
Garmin people will love this too! You can now turn off the automatic recalculations. This will force you to drive back to your route by yourself We will show the original route (as we always do) and stop actively guiding you back.Stop tracklog when stopping navigation
You can now make the tracklog pause when you stop navigating automatically. Saving is always up to youScaling improvement
Some people had very small icons / lines (especially on high resolution CarPlay / Android Auto devices) while using the app. We've improved the scaling behavior of these elements on different screen sizes. Besides that, in CP / AA the shown speed limit and current speed is increased in size for those big displays.Visual settings CarPlay / Android Auto
When you disable some visual elements from the settings, these are now also applied in CP / AA. Relevant ones are:- Speed limit
- Visual warnings
- Lane instructions
Position indicator size
You can now also increase / decrease the size of the position indicatorMinor improvements
- Better camera animations regarding tilt
- Back button behavior Android on home screen
- More waypoint information on skipping / resuming
- Position indicator not off screen when rotating phone anymore in some situations
- Improved shown original route data
- Slight changes to automatic waypoint skip algorithm
- Zoom level freedrive in CarPlay / Android Auto
What's next?
Well most of all, gathering your feedback and checking if everything works as expected. Besides that, the end of the year is approaching so not sure how much more massive things we will do before that
In this (and the last) updates we really try to focus on the core of the app. Previous updates had a lot of stability improvements and this one improves the navigational core of the app. My guess is, we will focus on any issues before releasing this and improving the stability furtherCheers,
Corjan@Corjan-Meijerink
Wow, you've been really busy the last month, well done.Can you please explain what the difference is now when I choose a route to navigate or a track?
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Hi everyone!
It has been over a month since the 4.3.3 beta was started
The wait has been worth it for sure as we have been cracking our heads to improve the core of our app. Obviously it's nice to create fun features but after all we are a navigation app so it also makes sense to improve the navigation itselfA lot of fundamental aspects have been improved beyond imagination
With this update, the app will become your default go-to navigation app! I am extremely proud of the work Joost and I have accomplished Track navigation
Yes, it existed. With that, most was said.
Generate a scenic route or roundtour and away you go!
Diverting from the route or losing an internet connection would result in major issuesNow not anymore!
Track navigation works completely offline! When you go offline (either by choice or chance) the track navigation will continue working and recalculating! There might be minor differences compared to the online calculation but you are warned about that. Besides that, the original calculation will always remain visible
When you divert from your track, you will be redirected to the nearest logical point on the track. Yes, you might be sent back (depending on the location) but eventually (or immediately) you will be sent to another logical point on the track. Do you want to navigate to another section of the track? Just long press near the point where you want to rejoin!
Do you prefer navigating routes as track? Leave the already existing setting as you have it and away you go!
This works similar to the GPX 1.2 format on your Garmin.This means that even while navigating a track, you can skip your viapoints
How amazing is that! Because you are navigating a track, shapingpoints are obviously not included. After skipping a viapoint, the fastest route is calculated to the next viapoint When loading a track, you can now also change the setting to start from the nearest point on the track!
Long pressing near the point where you want to continue your track, also works before starting the navigation!
With this update, track navigation has been elevated to a level you could not have imagined. To be brutally honest, I have ridden a lot of routes as tracks and this might become my preferred method of navigating
Dynamic routing
Whenever you're going from A to B, you often get into traffic and a faster route becomes available. When you've enabled traffic optimisation we will now continuously search for faster routes!
After accepting the new route (which will happen when you don’t decide within a certain time) you will still see the original route.
Traffic warnings
For all types of navigation, it is interesting to know if you are driving into traffic or pass an accident. Now that we are introducing the dynamic routing as explained above, it makes a lot of sense to also warn about traffic related events on your route.
We will inform you about:
- Traffic flow delays (significantly queued traffic)
- Traffic incidents (accidents, closed lanes etc)
- Road work (known construction)
You can choose the enabled categories yourself from the settings.
When enabled we will show an icon on the map, update the line to show the length of the delay and push a visual / audio warning.If a faster alternative route is available, that will automatically be suggested too!
Destination reached
The amount of discussion on this topic on the forum has been incredible. Since the release of the app, people have different preferences regarding what the app should do when arriving at your destination.
Now the app will prompt to stop navigation after reaching it.
The default setting is that navigation will stop.
You can disable this behavior. In that case, when no choice is made, it will continue navigating as it currently does.Updated settings
Check out all the updated settings and play around!
Most changes are within the functional settingsAutomatic recalculations
Garmin people will love this too! You can now turn off the automatic recalculations. This will force you to drive back to your route by yourself We will show the original route (as we always do) and stop actively guiding you back.Stop tracklog when stopping navigation
You can now make the tracklog pause when you stop navigating automatically. Saving is always up to youScaling improvement
Some people had very small icons / lines (especially on high resolution CarPlay / Android Auto devices) while using the app. We've improved the scaling behavior of these elements on different screen sizes. Besides that, in CP / AA the shown speed limit and current speed is increased in size for those big displays.Visual settings CarPlay / Android Auto
When you disable some visual elements from the settings, these are now also applied in CP / AA. Relevant ones are:- Speed limit
- Visual warnings
- Lane instructions
Position indicator size
You can now also increase / decrease the size of the position indicatorMinor improvements
- Better camera animations regarding tilt
- Back button behavior Android on home screen
- More waypoint information on skipping / resuming
- Position indicator not off screen when rotating phone anymore in some situations
- Improved shown original route data
- Slight changes to automatic waypoint skip algorithm
- Zoom level freedrive in CarPlay / Android Auto
What's next?
Well most of all, gathering your feedback and checking if everything works as expected. Besides that, the end of the year is approaching so not sure how much more massive things we will do before that
In this (and the last) updates we really try to focus on the core of the app. Previous updates had a lot of stability improvements and this one improves the navigational core of the app. My guess is, we will focus on any issues before releasing this and improving the stability furtherCheers,
Corjan -
Nice update, thank you!!
Question, I would like to pause the navigation (and the track) during, for example, a tank stop or a visit to a restaurant. I don’t want the MRA app to charge my battery unnecessarily during the break and keep hearing instructions coming out of my pocket. What is the best way to do that with the current app? Placing the app to the background is not enough, is it? So choose to stop navigation? That is very inconvenient, because you always have to restart the route. Or can that be done very quickly? Is a “pause navigation” button might be useful?
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Hi everyone!
It has been over a month since the 4.3.3 beta was started
The wait has been worth it for sure as we have been cracking our heads to improve the core of our app. Obviously it's nice to create fun features but after all we are a navigation app so it also makes sense to improve the navigation itselfA lot of fundamental aspects have been improved beyond imagination
With this update, the app will become your default go-to navigation app! I am extremely proud of the work Joost and I have accomplished Track navigation
Yes, it existed. With that, most was said.
Generate a scenic route or roundtour and away you go!
Diverting from the route or losing an internet connection would result in major issuesNow not anymore!
Track navigation works completely offline! When you go offline (either by choice or chance) the track navigation will continue working and recalculating! There might be minor differences compared to the online calculation but you are warned about that. Besides that, the original calculation will always remain visible
When you divert from your track, you will be redirected to the nearest logical point on the track. Yes, you might be sent back (depending on the location) but eventually (or immediately) you will be sent to another logical point on the track. Do you want to navigate to another section of the track? Just long press near the point where you want to rejoin!
Do you prefer navigating routes as track? Leave the already existing setting as you have it and away you go!
This works similar to the GPX 1.2 format on your Garmin.This means that even while navigating a track, you can skip your viapoints
How amazing is that! Because you are navigating a track, shapingpoints are obviously not included. After skipping a viapoint, the fastest route is calculated to the next viapoint When loading a track, you can now also change the setting to start from the nearest point on the track!
Long pressing near the point where you want to continue your track, also works before starting the navigation!
With this update, track navigation has been elevated to a level you could not have imagined. To be brutally honest, I have ridden a lot of routes as tracks and this might become my preferred method of navigating
Dynamic routing
Whenever you're going from A to B, you often get into traffic and a faster route becomes available. When you've enabled traffic optimisation we will now continuously search for faster routes!
After accepting the new route (which will happen when you don’t decide within a certain time) you will still see the original route.
Traffic warnings
For all types of navigation, it is interesting to know if you are driving into traffic or pass an accident. Now that we are introducing the dynamic routing as explained above, it makes a lot of sense to also warn about traffic related events on your route.
We will inform you about:
- Traffic flow delays (significantly queued traffic)
- Traffic incidents (accidents, closed lanes etc)
- Road work (known construction)
You can choose the enabled categories yourself from the settings.
When enabled we will show an icon on the map, update the line to show the length of the delay and push a visual / audio warning.If a faster alternative route is available, that will automatically be suggested too!
Destination reached
The amount of discussion on this topic on the forum has been incredible. Since the release of the app, people have different preferences regarding what the app should do when arriving at your destination.
Now the app will prompt to stop navigation after reaching it.
The default setting is that navigation will stop.
You can disable this behavior. In that case, when no choice is made, it will continue navigating as it currently does.Updated settings
Check out all the updated settings and play around!
Most changes are within the functional settingsAutomatic recalculations
Garmin people will love this too! You can now turn off the automatic recalculations. This will force you to drive back to your route by yourself We will show the original route (as we always do) and stop actively guiding you back.Stop tracklog when stopping navigation
You can now make the tracklog pause when you stop navigating automatically. Saving is always up to youScaling improvement
Some people had very small icons / lines (especially on high resolution CarPlay / Android Auto devices) while using the app. We've improved the scaling behavior of these elements on different screen sizes. Besides that, in CP / AA the shown speed limit and current speed is increased in size for those big displays.Visual settings CarPlay / Android Auto
When you disable some visual elements from the settings, these are now also applied in CP / AA. Relevant ones are:- Speed limit
- Visual warnings
- Lane instructions
Position indicator size
You can now also increase / decrease the size of the position indicatorMinor improvements
- Better camera animations regarding tilt
- Back button behavior Android on home screen
- More waypoint information on skipping / resuming
- Position indicator not off screen when rotating phone anymore in some situations
- Improved shown original route data
- Slight changes to automatic waypoint skip algorithm
- Zoom level freedrive in CarPlay / Android Auto
What's next?
Well most of all, gathering your feedback and checking if everything works as expected. Besides that, the end of the year is approaching so not sure how much more massive things we will do before that
In this (and the last) updates we really try to focus on the core of the app. Previous updates had a lot of stability improvements and this one improves the navigational core of the app. My guess is, we will focus on any issues before releasing this and improving the stability furtherCheers,
CorjanNavigate route as track, this is the best solution incl. the new settings ..
Thank you, I'm very interested in testing it, but first in the car
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@Corjan-Meijerink
Wow, you've been really busy the last month, well done.Can you please explain what the difference is now when I choose a route to navigate or a track?
To drive a planned route with via points now as a track with via points and to set the automatic recalculation to off beforehand. So the picture remains much clearer to stay on the planned path even if there are disturbances on the track.
This can now be done via the navigation settings / functions
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@Corjan-Meijerink
Wow, you've been really busy the last month, well done.Can you please explain what the difference is now when I choose a route to navigate or a track?
@Jörgen not very much! The route calculation uses the individual waypoints and when placed correctly is the same as the track.
The track however really uses the data how the route originally created
The improvement is really to ensure that the navigation of any route or track you drive is perfect! A lot of users get a GPX file from tour operators which is a track. This then leads to unexpected results but not anymore!
Try it yourself and notice how it feels the same
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Nice update, thank you!!
Question, I would like to pause the navigation (and the track) during, for example, a tank stop or a visit to a restaurant. I don’t want the MRA app to charge my battery unnecessarily during the break and keep hearing instructions coming out of my pocket. What is the best way to do that with the current app? Placing the app to the background is not enough, is it? So choose to stop navigation? That is very inconvenient, because you always have to restart the route. Or can that be done very quickly? Is a “pause navigation” button might be useful?
@CD130 that’s easy: stop and resume is the way to go and works perfect
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@Corjan-Meijerink I’m looking forward to testing Stop navigation on destination reached and Pause tracklog automatically a great addition to an already very capable navigation app.
I’m assuming that with these new features, I can put the bike away, go inside and take my bike gear off, make a coffee and then save the tracklog?
Whereas before, it always seemed like a rush to stop navigation and tracklog and then save.Always willing to help if I can.
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@Corjan-Meijerink I’m looking forward to testing Stop navigation on destination reached and Pause tracklog automatically a great addition to an already very capable navigation app.
I’m assuming that with these new features, I can put the bike away, go inside and take my bike gear off, make a coffee and then save the tracklog?
Whereas before, it always seemed like a rush to stop navigation and tracklog and then save.@Nick-Carthew that’s entirely correct!
Do make sure the destination can actually be reached for it to stop. Otherwise it will still trigger when a recalculation happens extremely close to this destination -
@Jörgen not very much! The route calculation uses the individual waypoints and when placed correctly is the same as the track.
The track however really uses the data how the route originally created
The improvement is really to ensure that the navigation of any route or track you drive is perfect! A lot of users get a GPX file from tour operators which is a track. This then leads to unexpected results but not anymore!
Try it yourself and notice how it feels the same
@Corjan-Meijerink Really liking the changes but I have been trying some different settings with routes that I have to run as tracks. Where I have a circular route, the track is very different to the route. An example for this route and is similar to a number of these training routes I use for Advanced Riding with the same problem although this is probably the worst example:
As a route:
Waypoint order as expected:
Change to route as track:
The track display showing the start now at the end with nothing else (white planned route):
Waypoint order has now changed:
Not what I was expecting and thought I should highlight here.
Kind Regards. Help where I can.
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Nice update, thank you!!
Question, I would like to pause the navigation (and the track) during, for example, a tank stop or a visit to a restaurant. I don’t want the MRA app to charge my battery unnecessarily during the break and keep hearing instructions coming out of my pocket. What is the best way to do that with the current app? Placing the app to the background is not enough, is it? So choose to stop navigation? That is very inconvenient, because you always have to restart the route. Or can that be done very quickly? Is a “pause navigation” button might be useful?
@CD130 I stop navigation when I stop for a break. I also pause the tracklog. When I'm ready to head out again I resume navigation. The tracklog automatically starts again.
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@Corjan-Meijerink Really liking the changes but I have been trying some different settings with routes that I have to run as tracks. Where I have a circular route, the track is very different to the route. An example for this route and is similar to a number of these training routes I use for Advanced Riding with the same problem although this is probably the worst example:
As a route:
Waypoint order as expected:
Change to route as track:
The track display showing the start now at the end with nothing else (white planned route):
Waypoint order has now changed:
Not what I was expecting and thought I should highlight here.
@Dave-J-0 does not seem too strange to be honest. You’re not near the start and it seems te finish is closest to you. Try turning off “start nearest point on track” or simply longpress anywhere on the first section of the track.
Waypoints only include the viapoints with the original number (as changing that into order would make you loose sense of the viapoint numbering).
Edit: after further investigation, the behavior is indeed not logic and is improved in a new beta / the release
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Great stuff.
Thank you everyone at MyRoute for the hard work you put in and being so open with the whole development process.
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@Dave-J-0 does not seem too strange to be honest. You’re not near the start and it seems te finish is closest to you. Try turning off “start nearest point on track” or simply longpress anywhere on the first section of the track.
Waypoints only include the viapoints with the original number (as changing that into order would make you loose sense of the viapoint numbering).
Edit: after further investigation, the behavior is indeed not logic and is improved in a new beta / the release
Thanks @Dave-J-0!@Corjan-Meijerink said in New beta! 4.3.4 (369) - massive navigation improvements:
Try turning off “start nearest point on track”
This was ‘off’ for the missing loop which is why I thought it strange. If I select this on then the full loop appears to be correct and shown.
Aware that the ‘route as track’ will only show vias but if i select ‘waypoints’ then i receive a white box:
Should this not show the info for the vias?
Great work, love what the MRA Team are doing.
Kind Regards. Help where I can.
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iPhone 15 Pro
CHIGEE AIO-6 LTE
CHIGEE AIO-5 Play
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This sounds fantastic. My compliments for what you have done again.
I hope to be offered the new Beta version soon. Unfortunately, it is not yet available for Android.Dit klinkt fantastisch. Mijn complimenten voor hetgeen jullie weer verricht hebben.
Ik hoop de nieuwe Beta versie snel aangeboden te krijgen. Helaas is deze voor Android nog niet beschikbaar. -
Just installed on IOS. Does it mean that we are able now to plan route using tomotom routing in the planner and then navigate by track having info about waypoints etc? I would be great!
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@Corjan-Meijerink Really liking the changes but I have been trying some different settings with routes that I have to run as tracks. Where I have a circular route, the track is very different to the route. An example for this route and is similar to a number of these training routes I use for Advanced Riding with the same problem although this is probably the worst example:
As a route:
Waypoint order as expected:
Change to route as track:
The track display showing the start now at the end with nothing else (white planned route):
Waypoint order has now changed:
Not what I was expecting and thought I should highlight here.
@Dave-J-0 I've improved this in a next beta update / the release
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@Corjan-Meijerink said in New beta! 4.3.4 (369) - massive navigation improvements:
Try turning off “start nearest point on track”
This was ‘off’ for the missing loop which is why I thought it strange. If I select this on then the full loop appears to be correct and shown.
Aware that the ‘route as track’ will only show vias but if i select ‘waypoints’ then i receive a white box:
Should this not show the info for the vias?
Great work, love what the MRA Team are doing.
@Dave-J-0 Thanks for sharing, fixed this too!
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