Please allow more characters in the Note field...

[Tom Grzelinski]

We use MRA in our car each year on European driving holidays. We use the Waypoint Note field for adding descriptive text about upcoming locations. This is FANTASTIC.

I spend 9-12 months planning the route and finding out all about the places, roads, passes and cols we are driving past. I add extra waypoints before locations and write in the Notes about the upcoming location.

So, my request would be can you please allow more characters to the Note field. It is currently about 440 characters. Can you expand this to 600 please?

Another thought, it would be really cool if you could set the Note to be read XX km before reaching the waypoint. That way I wouldn't have to add all these extra descriptive waypoints to my map!

[M. Schrijver]

I struggle with this also. You add a note but you never know for sure when these notes were spoken or spoken at all. This makes it difficult to have notes at the point you want them spoken.

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

You can add 512 characters in this field

[Nick Carthew]

Notes in shaping points are displayed and read aloud at 750 metres before the location of the shaping point. For via points, the notes are displayed and read aloud at 2 kilometres before the location of the via point.

[Nick Carthew]

I will just add to what @Hans-van-de-Ven-MR.MRA has written, the 512 characters includes spaces.

[richtea999]

A lovely number. Somebody somewhere worried about real kilobytes when they spec'ed this!

[Nick Carthew]

@richtea999 There was a technical reason for 512 but I can't remember what it was. It may not be relevant now but to be honest, 512 is about all you need. Any more and it is just too much information to take in. For anyone wanting more, you could always revert to the old method of a note in your tank bag. I actually sometimes miss my tank bag notes.

[Nomko Nomden]

@Hans-van-de-Ven-MR.MRA said in Please allow more characters in the Note field...:

You can add 512 characters in this field

512 Characters..... That should be mote than enough imho.

During riding i think you want a notification, not a whole story to be told.

If i add notes, they are not more than 3 lines with the most bare necessary information

[Tom Grzelinski]

OK, for whatever reason I have not been able to get more than 440 characters in the Note field.

I am not sure about the distances Nick. It was my experience on the last trip that the note was only spoken to you when you reached the waypoint. I will play a bit more...

[Nick Carthew]

@Tom-Grzelinski Copy and paste your note into Word and use the character count with spaces. I can assure you it is 512. I can also assure you of the distances for the annoucements to be played is correct.

[Nick Carthew]

Just enough room for an extra full stop if needed. 511 characters with spaces.

[Jörgen]

If there is too much text, you have overshot your goal while he is still reading aloud.

[Richard 18]

I haven’t used the ‘Note’ function.

The great thing about the MyRoute forum is that you see someone’s problem, idea, solution or suggestion and think “Hey, that’s interesting, I’ll try it myself”. The ‘Note’ function is a good example of something I’ve learnt about and will try to use.

[Nick Carthew]

@Richard-18 When it was first available, my mates thought that I was far more intellectual than I really am as I would be relaying to them all of the facts about the different places that we passed on our routes. They didn’t know that I was having it read to me and displayed on phone screen.
It is a very useful tool that I use all of the time.
I also find myself randomly answering quiz show questions with the knowledge that I have gained from looking up facts to put into route point notes.

[Tom Grzelinski]

Ha ha, I have added so many 'Notes' waypoints to my journey that I have just had a message from MRA telling me that my route cannot have more than 200 waypoints! Bugger!!! Time to split the route in to two routes

[Guzzist]

@Tom-Grzelinski may you can add photos to your waypoints. It will be displayed during navigation also. Sometimes a photo tells more than 512 characters

[Con Hennekens]

@Tom-Grzelinski said in Please allow more characters in the Note field...:

So, my request would be can you please allow more characters to the Note field. It is currently about 440 characters. Can you expand this to 600 please?

Wow, I guess you are building complete tour guides? I use this method quite a lot, but I would be disturbed if a message takes longer that 10 to 15 seconds to be spoken...

@Nick-Carthew said in Please allow more characters in the Note field...:

Notes in shaping points are displayed and read aloud at 750 metres before the location of the shaping point. For via points, the notes are displayed and read aloud at 2 kilometres before the location of the via point.

Absolutely true, but only if there is no other route point in between.

[Tom Grzelinski]

@Con-Hennekens Unlike most people here, we are using MRA in a car and find it really nice as we drive past a Castle to hear a bit about its history etc.

We used these Notes for the first time on our Dolomites trip last year and it really added to our enjoyment of the journey and places we were passing. It also made my wife stop talking for a few minutes while the note was read... so maybe I should ask for the limit to be raised to 10,000 characters

[Nick Carthew]

@Tom-Grzelinski said in Please allow more characters in the Note field...:
so maybe I should ask for the limit to be raised to 10,000 characters

I hope Mrs Grzelinski isn’t reading this

[Jörgen]

I usually buy my audiobooks from Amazon.
Is this a new business model from MRA?