MRA Nav App suitability for off road use

David Martin Sandilands

Im considering the Nav app addon to use for on and off road use, and have a few questions:

1 Can you load and follow GPX files of an off route (Like TET) and follow the route off road?

Can you log/record a route save as GPX route then follow it at a later date?
An MRA planning advice, can I plan an off route on the MRA planner?

Any advice is welcome.

Thx

richard 3v

I may be wrong but I would say "NO".

I trail ride, as well as road riding, and I have tried to load trails onto MRA without success.
For me Basecamp is far superior for trails/off road, but MRA is now my default for road riding.

Martin Wilcke

@richard-3v @David-Martin-Sandilands

I would say the same.

MRA is excellent for on-road, but there are better alternatives for off-road. I recommend ADVHub; it is primarily intended to work with DMD2 (navigation app) and is currently in beta.

You can request access via the DMD2 discord server: https://www.drivemodedashboard.com/forums/topic/dmd2-discord-server/

Let me know if you need assistance to get this set up.

David Martin Sandilands

@richard-3v Thank you, it’s as I thought, MRA need to up their game, as I use a tomtom the MRA nav os pointless for me

Jörgen

A TomTom Rider is also Not suitability for off road use.

Ton Machielsen

@David-Martin-Sandilands Use Kurviger.de for creating the GPX and load the <gpx in My-Route.

David Martin Sandilands

@Jörgen Exactly as I have a Tomtom rider and why I’m looking at alternatives.

Martin Wilcke

@Ton-Machielsen
Kurviger for off-road? Are you sure?

Ton Machielsen

@Martin-Wilcke That’s what I do…

Martin Wilcke

@Ton-Machielsen
To recap: Your workflow is to create off-road routes/tracks with Kurviger and navigate them with MRA NN? That sounds super interesting!
Can you please share one of these as an example? I'm on MRA and Kurviger, both platforms will do.

LE DIZES Freddy

Bonjour à tous
la solution pour faire des itinéraires Route et Off road serait que lorsqu'on utilise la navigation avec MRA la trace apparaisse tout le temps quelque soit le routage fait par l'application . libre a chacun de suivre le routage ou la trace

CD130

Corjan is currently working on it. Hopefully he can share an update on this topic soon.

Corjan Meijerink

Full offroad support will be quite unlikely for our navigation app.
We are however investigating the support of short offroad sections / "offroad" marked waypoints as shown in the MRA Routeplanner.

CD130

@Corjan-Meijerink That would be a really great improvement and for most users more than enough. Glad you're working on this

Ton Machielsen

@Martin-Wilcke What do you want me to share? A GPX? I just create my track on Kurviger and export it as GPX into MRA. That’s all.

Martin Wilcke

@Ton-Machielsen

I'm curious about the "offroad capabilities" of your workflow as I've not managed to get proper results with a similar approach - neither creating a route (without using "beeline") nor navigating a track (except "follow the line visually"). That's why I'm asking.

Can you share one of your offroad routes (route-track?) here by providing a link?

Martin Wilcke

@Corjan-Meijerink
That would help a lot! Not only for offroad purposes but also to deal with map data errors (like unknown ferries).

David Martin Sandilands

@Martin-Wilcke I don’t have an off road route yet, I hope to be about create on in MRA. Or extract one off the TET website

Ton Machielsen

This is just an example. https://kurv.gr/dHAVv

Martin Wilcke

@Ton-Machielsen
Thanks for sharing - I'll have a look!