An ex-tree surgeon and near life-long motorcyclist who cut his teeth, pre-teens, on a motley selection of sometimes scary field bikes. Trained to advanced level and as an IAM Observer (though not active these days), I have 43 years of on-road experience and much to learn. I’ve travelled the UK and Ireland widely but have little experience abroad on a bike and am not too familiar with riding on the ‘wrong’ side of the road. I'm hopeful that, once we can be rid of Covid-19 restrictions, MyRoute will play a part in changing that. I’m currently discovering MRA by working on a route through France and northern Spain.
That’s as in:
For anyone else who might have missed this.
Not altogether ‘intuitive’ but, once pointed out, it’s something I’ll work with very happily indeed.
My interpretation of the UI was that selecting the move icon rendered the waypoint moveable by ‘picking it up’ and moving/placing it by hand (well, finger!).
@Nick-Carthew Ohhhh! Brilliant! Thank you sir!
@Nick-Carthew I do know that, although I find the box needs some coaxing to go away. Question is, why clutter up the app with strings of code, the effect of which are post hoc?
@Nick-Carthew Thank you for your suggestion, but I have that on already - it would be quite challenging to create routes at all without it I think. What I was addressing was the modification of a route by moving existing waypoints. On a PC, using a mouse, this isn’t an issue, but it’s a real pain on touch screens. Clearly, much bigger markers might be undesirable in some circumstances, so that’s probably not an easy fix. A longer ‘tail’ to the waypoint marker might help? Or use of pin or flag icons? Just enough to avoid the ‘business end’ of the icon being obscured. I should, perhaps, add that I don’t have great, fat fingers by any means!
I agree that the waypoint icons are very difficult to locate accurately - the finger used to move them hides them. This is plain daft! Other than that, I’m ok with the icons, apart from the final one on ‘more icons’…
Firstly the icon is obscure - it’s a bit of a stretch to arrive at ‘skip’ from an image of a Land Rover going up a hill!
However, launching us straight back into ‘daft’ territory, is the fact that when the ‘more icons’ icon is selected, the ‘skip’ icon is totally obscured by a black box with the words ‘more icons’ writ large upon it… that only appears after you hit the ‘more icons’ icon!!! THAT is nothing short of pitiful. Thankfully in a laughable kind of way!
@David-Bonner That’s all very familiar to me. I have noticed that the auto-skip doesn’t perform quickly. In fact, I’d thought it didn’t seem to be working at all, but that was maybe just down to the routes I was using and spacing of waypoints? Certainly though, this feature doesn’t work as I had anticipated and seems a bit illogical. A single, on-screen skip button that can be used on an individual waypoint basis would be a way better approach to my mind.
The nearest fuel button disappeared for me a few weeks ago, but then reappeared soon after it was reported - certainly, it was present the weekend before last because I used it. However, I have just checked on a route that I know featured the button from its start at my home and it is absent again.
I do wonder whether there might be an element of trying to keep the active route view free of clutter? But then I look at the absolutely massive and ever present ‘distance to next turn’ feature and think that can’t be! That could be reduced in size very considerably (maybe to 1/4 its current area), freeing up space for very useful icons. Maybe the next turn feature could also remain hidden until close to that turn (say 1/2 mile or km for example?).
@StefanHummelink Thank you. So we know this is not isolated to one operating system. I try to minimise looking at the screen while riding. I find it detracts from all the other hazards.
I’m posting this here rather than in ‘self help’ because I think this might be more a discussion than me seeking help from other members.
As per the title, voice guidance is fairly frequently delivered decidedly late - sometimes right at the junction, or even just after it. I’ve mentioned this before. Likewise that sometimes guidance is not delivered, despite the feature (usually a roundabout) being present on the map view.
I could open a support ticket, but I’m not sure where responsibility lies in this. Is it down to the supplier of the voice guidance? In which case, who is that? HERE maps? Is it an app glitch that affects timing? Is it gps related? Etc, etc.
Does anyone have any knowledge or thoughts on this, please? Up to today, I haven't been inconvenienced by this as I’ve been testing the app on known territory. Today, I wasn’t on known territory and was inconvenienced.
Happily, other than this, Navigation behaved faultlessly again today. It would be great to get rd of this glitch though.