Posts made by Timo Martosatiman MRA

In the past few weeks we've been trying to streamline corona-proof working and so far it's all going well. On behalf of the team I wanted to drop in here and tell everyone we're all very much enjoying working on these amazing services. Here's a small greeting from this weeks' BugTalk meeting (where the core development team and support team meet to smash annoying bugs!)

In de afgelopen weken hebben we geprobeerd om coronavast werken te stroomlijnen en tot nu toe gaat het allemaal goed. Namens het team wilde ik hier langskomen en iedereen vertellen dat we het allemaal erg leuk vinden om aan deze geweldige diensten te werken. Hier is een kleine groet van de BugTalk-bijeenkomst van deze week (waar het kernontwikkelingsteam en het ondersteuningsteam samenkomen om vervelende bugs te verhelpen!)

I have no idea what that is, but then again, it's probably from before my time

This changelog includes resolved issues in the different parts of MyRoute-app. Missing on this list is MRA Navigation, as the Navigation development team works hard on bringing out a new update which isn’t quite ready yet. This update will include several bugfixes as well as the groundworks for Apple Carplay.

General bugfixes
• A bug where sometimes no invoice would be attached to an email was resolved.
• After changing an email address, users would receive emails from MyRoute-app on their old email address.

MRA Routeplanner bugfixes
• In certain browsers, the roundtour generator would get stuck in a permanent loading loop.
• Occasionally, the Travel Story feature wouldn’t allow tracks and photo’s to be uploaded and no Travel Story image would be generated.
• For some users, friends could open their private routes through the side panel in the routelab.
• The “Expand” toolkit feature could occasionally lead to waypoints being randomly sorted throughout a route.
• Some users were unable to upload routes from MyRoute-app to TomTom MyDrive.
• Some users were unable to export offroad routes in .gpx format
• The MyRoute-app connector sometimes would not install if downloaded through Chrome.
• Putting a folder of routes inside that same folder of routes through “My routes” would make the folder invisible.
• Exporting to the Harley Davidson Boom! Box didn’t work on some versions of the Boom! Box.
• Some users reported .gpx routes not being uploaded correctly.
• Some users were unable to use the “search” option in the roundtour generator.

MRA Video bugfixes
• Generated videos would not show height.
• All-in-one users would not get a MRA Video trial.

Hi Drab, you can find the roadmap via the routeplanner here:

As for the elements that cross over into "navigation" territory, we're going to work on RoadMaps for both Navigation and MRA Video! As such, there'll be a MRA Navigation Roadmap and a MRA Video Roadmap.

kind regards,

Timo

We're interested in your opinion regarding route/waypoint timing. This morning we had a discussion regarding setting a "Starting time/date" for your route, this is a feature we will add. However, alternatively, we could also provide the option of setting an "Ending time/date" which would effectively result in a route being calculated backwards from the ending time.
At this point we are uncertain if it should be added. Please let us know what you think we should do:

Only add "Starting time/date"
Add both "Starting time/date" and "Ending time/date"
Only add "Ending time/date"

Attention Community,

After a long design process we’re now ready to release the roadmap for the MyRoute-app Routeplanner for public viewing. A momentous event, and all members of the MRA Community Forum are the first to know!

View the roadmap here!

The Roadmap is meant as a way to comprehensively and transparently publish our ambitions for the MyRoute-app Routeplanner. This way, you’ll be able to actively track what we’re doing including the often unseen “background work” in the form of infrastructure upgrades.

The MRA Routeplanner, formerly known as just "MyRoute-app", has been continuously developed since 2013. Containing both a free and paid subscription, the MRA Routeplanner is fast becoming the standard for motorcyclists and motorists worldwide. With an active community of over 190.000 enthusiastic users, the MRA Routeplanner is not only an industry leader, it is one of the most ambitious community-driven projects in its field. The combined feedback of the community and the development team led to this roadmap.

We’ve broken down the RoadMap into ten milestones, labelled 1.0 to 2.0. Each milestone consists out of one or more projects from one of three categories. The project categories are:

GREEN: System Features
System features are upgrades to MRA Routeplanner that have been designed and planned by the development team.

BLUE: Community Features
Community Features are upgrades to MRA Routeplanner that have been designed and voted for by the MyRoute-app community.

YELLOW: Internal Infrastructure
Internal Infrastructure upgrades are improvements to invisible systems and processes that increase sustainability and efficiency.

In parallel to this publicly viewable roadmap, we’ve also transitioned to powerful project management tools that allow us to track, manage and complete individual tasks on each project and each milestone. We’re confident that this way we’ll be able to actively release features and updates on a more regular basis and conforming to a more recognizable pattern.

On a final note, please note that for each milestone we’ve now logged an estimated 3 month milestone duration. We aim to decrease the time between milestones, but as this is the very first time we’re going to be working on projects like this we wanted to project a duration that seems very attainable.

View the roadmap here!

@Steve-Lynch Hi Steve and thanks for getting back to me,

You can't add pictures to waypoints at this time, but perhaps this is a good idea for the future especially since there could now be an additional reason due to MRA Video.

There is a workaround available right now though: if you convert your route into a tracklog, you can add photo's (moments) to it and add it in MRA Video.

As for the audio, we're still going to check if it's not too much of a problem, then we'd gladly add it.

Hi Steve,

I've verified with the team and it shouldn't be a "Purchase Directly" button with a one-click purchase, if it is, that's on us. You can always reach out to the team for a refund since MyRouteApp would never endorse catch-click sales.

Aside from this, I've noted your comments for the backlog.

As for your wish list, just some clarification:

1. You mean to upload MP3's, so that you could use them on your track? Sounds great, we'd have to check with legal to make sure that uploading licenced audio for use under your video's falls under Fair Usage licencing (to avoid us getting hit with Cease-and-Desist letters from the media bigwigs)
2. If you open your track in "my tracklogs"you can already upload moments, isn't this what you mean? As for how MRA Video handles these moments, we've noted some points for improvement.
3. We hear this one a lot, we'll definitely check it out.

Kind regards,

Timo

@Maurice-Smith
Thank you for that beautiful video of your tour and the offered ideas. We're gathering a lot of feedback right now, which is pretty much both 1) better explanation of what MRA Video is, does and how it works and 2) gathering a community wishlist.

@Dragbert we're working on that. Once available, we'll let everyone know through the forum.