The Great Suggestion List

[speedup100]

@Timo-Martosatiman-MRA said in The Great Suggestion List:

Unlike the original Tyre a favorite cannot be left permanently showing on the general map template, presumably because each map generated in MRA is a stand alone item. A favorite can only be added as a waypoint, it would be a good feature if a favorite could be added permanently as is the case with POI's. To me there is a difference between a favorite and a POI, a favorite can be someone's address personal to you, a POI is more of a general interest. The difference in the visual image of the icons is the important significance.

[Peter 3b]

Suggestion: add a "export as link to GPX".

Rationale: exporting through USB is so very 2005, but all currently available alternatives require the use of intermediate storage.

Current "export as a link" links to the interactive MRA webapp. While I understand the viral value this has for MRA (as a company), as a user I would like to be able to drop a link directly into other apps.

This is what URLs were invented for, right?

[BJ]

Suggestion: change the route-type of an existing or imported route.

When you start making a new route you have to choose what type this route is (Driving, Cycling, By foot). I use MRA for preparing running-routes as well and when you (accidentally) select a different type it is not possible to modify this later on.

This also goes when using imported Route-tracks: when choosing to use the track as a route you don't have the possibility to select what type of route it is.

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@BJ

Hello BJ,

You can change this afterwards in the route-information

or via the 3 dots behind the route in your route library

[Con Hennekens]

Nice to find myself in the list
The actual suggestion was to "search routes based on X-distance form destantion an originating Y-distance from desired starting point" But I will forgive about the shortened version

May I deposit another one here, for Navigation?

• Expand the on-screen information with current-time, direction or compass, Height, en maybe more. It could be placed on either side of a landscape navigation screen, since more map than really needed is shown when using landscape. Maybe even move speed etc to the same location.

And for MRA?

• Since we have the heightprofile information, it could be used for a "caravan & camper" function. As opposite to the curvy road functions, Caravan and Camper drivers could benefit from leaving out slopes beyond a certain parameter.

[Nick Carthew]

Idea and suggestion from @Martin-Cooke: Is it possible to do a search in MRA by grid reference? A created waypoint's info contains the grid reference, surely that must be possible?

[Emilio Bertelli]

MRA Navigation Suggestion:
Add a button for change from "guidance view" (Standard MRA navigation view) to "map view" too see where i am in the track.
Alternatively a zoom +/- could be a good solution.

Doing always a pinch-to-zoom is complicated. You have to stop the ride and take off the gloves.

[Wytze]

Vandaag even wat routes 'geoptimaliseerd'. Twee dingen waar ik tegenaan liep. Ik moest een grote route met een stuk of 80 routepunten nalopen (puntjes op de weg zetten en niet op kruispunten bijvoorbeeld). Als je dan een routepunt aanklikt krijg je het popupje met de opties .

Nadat je het routepunt even iets verschoven hebt, herberekent MRA de route. Daarna is gelijk het popupje weg. Als je dus naar het volgende routepunt wilt klikken met de pijltjes, moet je eerst weer het routepunt aanklikken en dan pas op het pijltje. Als dat popupje nu niet verdwijnt, maar blijft staan gaat dat sneller (scheelt een klik) en scheelt ook de kans op een misklik (en dat er dan een routepunt wordt toegevoegd). Een optie om te kiezen voor het laten staan van het popupje zou wel een welkome aanvulling zijn.

Dit brengt me op het volgende punt. Als je misklikt en er een routepunt wordt toegevoegd, komt daar rechtsonder in je scherm een bevestiging van

echter staat die bevestiging precies boven op de 'ongedaan maak button' (de oh-shit knop volgens Serge).

Is het een idee om die bevestiging linksonder in het scherm te plaatsen, daar staat ie niets in de weg. Dit maakt het corrigeren van een misklik sneller, want je hoeft niet 3 seconden te wachten met ongedaan maken.

Het zou in mijn ogen de gebruiksvriendelijkheid ten goede komen en lijken me beide geen hele zware aanpassingen.

[Drabslab]

@Wytze Inderdaad kleinigheden maar lijken me wel belangrijk qua gebruiksvriendelijkheid

[Nick Carthew]

@Wytze U kunt ervoor kiezen om op een routepunt in de lijst te klikken. Dit bespaart 1 klik en 1,25 seconden

[MyRoute-app community]

Attention all, please try to use English as much as possible and stay on the subject.

[Arjan Olsthoorn]

i've got a great one. woudn't it be great if i can pick up my phone, Open de Myroute app and send any route to my Navigation system wireless.

the functionality is already in a lot of systems.

Currently i can send or receive from my BMW navigator to any Garmin /bmw device any route or track.
but it is not possible trough my phone.

You only have to trich the system by leting hem think the Phone is another Nav device.

from there i can get any route i want from the app, and drive for ever!!!

[Nick Carthew]

@Arjan-Olsthoorn I can send routes from my MRA library to my TomTom 500 using my phone. And I know that you can do the same with the new Garmin XT.

[Con Hennekens]

@Con-Hennekens said in The Great Suggestion List:

Nice to find myself in the list
The actual suggestion was to "search routes based on X-distance form destantion an originating Y-distance from desired starting point" But I will forgive about the shortened version

May I deposit another one here, for Navigation?

• Expand the on-screen information with current-time, direction or compass, Height, en maybe more. It could be placed on either side of a landscape navigation screen, since more map than really needed is shown when using landscape. Maybe even move speed etc to the same location.

And for MRA?

• Since we have the heightprofile information, it could be used for a "caravan & camper" function. As opposite to the curvy road functions, Caravan and Camper drivers could benefit from leaving out slopes beyond a certain parameter.

To add to myself (all for Navigation):

• it would be excellent to have the "next turn" indicator at the top left show the next waypoint number to which you are navigating too. That keeps track of route progress, and in case of reboots, recalculations (often start at the beginning again) it gives a better idea of to which waypoint to skip (seems an easy one!)
• in addition to the above, it would be great if a single tap on the map would show a 2d overview of the route, and your location in it. That is much easier to zoom into areas that on the standard 3d naviagtion map. It seems odd to have to quit navigation in order to see an overview of the route.
• If there is a need to skip waypoints, it is a real PITA to have to scroll through the waypoints one by one. Why not make the waypoint selectable on the map? It is already clickable, just the button "select this waypoint to skip to" is missing. I can't imagine that to be a difficult change, but if so, a dropbox in which you can select a waypoint would already be a lot of progress. Besides: pressing "close" on a selected waypoint in that view takes you out of the "skip to" function, instead of just out of the selected waypoint details. Probably a bug.
• make the "start navigation from" options a system default option. At the moment of writing it is implemented as a routing-option, and it defaults to "start of the route" each time a route loads. That can't be meant like that

Most of these additions come from some frustration because of the fact that while navigating it frequently starts recalculating (sometimes while taking a wrong turn, sometimes spontaneously) and in some of those cases it start at the beginning of the route instead of the closest waypoint (ahead!). I am not sure why, but I think it has to do with the fact that where normally the remaining time and kilometers are shown, a text shows "calculating" instead for very long and very often. The navigation runs with no problems at that point. I did not have a chance to test, but I think having the system in off-line mode helps against that.

[Steven Van Thuyne]

Een andere leuke mogelijk voor sommigen onder ons zou ook kunnen zijn dat je de MODE wanneer je een route hebt opgemaakt kan wijzigen van 'rijden' naar bv. 'fietsen' En je zodoende niet de gehele route opnuiew hoeft te maken maar hierin dan enkel wijzigen hoeft aan te brengen zoals het dan kunnen inrijden van baantjes 'enkel voor plaatselijk verkeer en fietsers'

[Stefan Hummelink]

@Steven-Van-Thuyne Rijmodus van de route kan je al wijzigen via de route-informatie als je de route geopend hebt:

Let wel: als de route dus initieel gemaakt is voor auto of motor rijden, kan je de modus weliswaar naar fietsen zetten maar je kan natuurlijk nooit zonder meer dezelfde route rijden... immers kom je met je fietsie niet over snelwegen bijv.

[Joe Hoss]

Hi, would it be possible for MRA Web to show timestamps on routes in the user's local timezone?

For example, I just updated a route and the timestamp is 01-11-20 03:33, in my timezone, it is currently 31-10-20 22:33.
Maybe allow the user to set their timezone in their profile?

Thanks,
Joe

[Wil van der Helm]

Nice list, with interesting suggestions but ..

why not start with a "search function" in the Navigation App, or do you consider that a bug ?

[Nick Carthew]

@Wil-van-der-Helm said in The Great Suggestion List:

Nice list, with interesting suggestions but ..

why not start with a "search function" in the Navigation App, or do you consider that a bug ?

Hi @Wil-van-der-Helm. There is a search function in the Nav app. If you mean search for a route in your library, there are a couple of workarounds for now. You can make an event and add a group of routes to it making them easier to find when you select events from the Nav homepage. Or - if you adjust a route by a tiny amount or change it’s name, it will appear at the top of your route list in the Nav app.

[Wil van der Helm]

Nick, Thanks