Suggestion: Live route/position sharing with ride participants

[Con Hennekens]

This is not a bad idea for sure. I would think of it as a group-mode. It would completely disable all local route calculation, but simply show the route of the leader of the group.

I like how the intercom app Zello approaches the use of groups. You can make such a group on-the-fly and others can join-in either with or without a password.

Also this would integrate very nice with the somewhat older idea of seeing other participants of a group ride as a dot on your screen.

[Jörgen]

We use the App BT-Talk for communication in our group, this App has a similar function to see the group member's position on a map.

[Mopetenpit]

@Jörgen
that sounds interesting. How does it work in practice together with the MRA navigation? Does the BT Talk app move to the foreground and "overlay" the navigation or does it stay in the background?

[Jörgen]

There are two options, you can leave it running in the background, then you need a push button for talking (is available from midland) or you can use it with MRA in split screen mode on your Android device and use the onscreen button.

[Mopetenpit]

@Jörgen Thank you!

[Con Hennekens]

Zello offers an overlay button that you can place in an empty area of the full navigation screen.

You can place multiple of these overlays if you wish.
You can add a (or multiple) hardware key(s) too.

[Jack van Tilburg]

@Corjan-Meijerink said in Suggestion: Live route/position sharing with ride participants:

Love the idea!

But not completely strange to you?
I recognize something in this question in one of the road book topics. Don't you?

Milestone 1.8

[Mopetenpit]

@Con-Hennekens many thanks for the hint!

[richtea999]

Rather than live tracking of individuals I was trying to decrease the problems a group encounters when the route changes dynamically by sharing it immediately.

However, live tracking of group participants would also be fun, agreed.

I guess there could also be a button for those that regularly get lost:

• Make group leader my next waypoint

Or a 'Round them up' button for the Group leader to warp all the follower's routes to point to him/her.

Can't wait to test that one if it ever makes it into production.

[Con Hennekens]

@richtea999, both things came up indeed, because we can imagine it makes use of the same group-functionality. I think it's pretty complementary.