MRA on Carpe Iter, map heading north?

Seppi

I am using the MRA since some days (full version) on my new CI with R1250GS.
As I am obviously old school, I‘d like to see the map always facing north.
Like Google maps or many other routing apps allow.

Is there any way to set this up on MRA while routing?

BG Frank

Corjan Meijerink

@Seppi a north up mode is on our backlog

Huibertus

@Corjan-Meijerink sorry maar wat betekent “Backlog”?

Hans van de Ven MR.MRA

@Huibertus

ToDo lijst

RetiredWingMan

@Huibertus planned future enhancement ... no implementation date.

Huibertus

@RetiredWingMan Oh thanx

Robert Bühlmeier

@Corjan-Meijerink Hi, I'm sadly noticing that north right map navigation is not on your priorities.
Please put north facing map on prio 1.
Personally I hate these all time turning Maps while driving....
Actually I'm leaving the TomTom platform and want to use DMD2 in the future, but it's not possible to use myroute app properly, because this north right issue.

Con Hennekens

@Robert-Bühlmeier said in MRA on Carpe Iter, map heading north?:

Please put north facing map on prio 1.

I guess everyone thinks his own suggestions need to be prio 1...
know that your suggestion is not much asked for.

Corjan Meijerink

I can confirm that as of the 4.1.3 update we will support a "north up" mode

This will complete the list as follows:

Dynamic (default) with rotation, tilt & auto zoom
Topdown with rotation, no tilt, & fixed zoom
North up with no rotation, no tilt & auto zoom

Con Hennekens

@Corjan-Meijerink, Great addition! I suppose whenever there is an auto zoom possible, it can also be disabled in the settings?

Corjan Meijerink

@Con-Hennekens yes!

tony_r

@Corjan-Meijerink
Just read your announcement about map North-Up while navigating being implemented. That's good news for me. Next week I'll have an opportunity to see it functioning in practice (next to other nav-tools).

At the moment I'm only looking at it under 'indoor use' and operating the 'compass needle' button does indeed switch the map to 'North-Up' while having navigation activated, so far so good.
I assume that the update had already been installed automatically, didn't quickly find a version number yet.

Notes (still from behind the table):

When using the map zoom +/- buttons the '<North-Up' setting becomes disabled (however not always, it seems) and needs to be selected ON again.
When zooming via 'pinching' the map orientation also can turn. I think that should be prevented and the map should stay locked in North-Up position.
By the way, I seem to miss a map scale indication (at least temporarily) visible on screen.

Corjan Meijerink

@tony_r 1 & 2 indeed are by design
3 that is correct

Glad you got the update installed automatically

tony_r

@Corjan-Meijerink ![
During a 4 day tour I observed the navigation behaviour of MRA, in particular the new option to keep the map 'North-Up'. That functions fine.

However I believe to have noticed that the zoom level keeps going back to a deep 'zoomed-in' map scale, something like 1 : 15000. The zoom level does not keep the selected level as set using 'pinching on the map' or +/- buttons.

The font of the turn-distance indication (see below pic) is too small for convenient reading at a glance under driving condition.

I liked the way how RMA picks up the route again after deviating from it and the option to keep the original route visible on the map.

It seems that a route cannot initially be calculated without internet connection, as also indicated by pop-up messages. Once calculated navigation works with the installed local map and local route data.

However a few times the navigation went wrong (cannot calculate the route and once the position indicated on map remained some 500 meters lagging the real position). I don't know if turn indications also came too late. Restoring internet connection for a moment solved such problems.
On days with permanent internet connected there were no issues and data consumption was between 75 MB and 150 MB per day.

All together RMA left a positive impression with me and probably I will use it more often to get better knowledge about it.

Your information about 'by design' I don't really understand yet.
What are the advantages of it ?