MRA on Carpe Iter, map heading north?

[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):

1. When using the map zoom +/- buttons the '<North-Up' setting becomes disabled (however not always, it seems) and needs to be selected ON again.
2. 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.
3. 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 ?

[Lenny O]

@Corjan-Meijerink Hello, Corjan!
Please advise where in the App do you control North up or any other options you have listed?
Also, how about having a compass rose added? Would be a great help to most of us!
Thank you!

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Lenny-O click on the compass sign in the right below corner to change the camera view. A pop up will tell you witch view is selected

[Harold s]

Northup is finished after recalculation or ooming in or out. How can I avoid this and correct the map quickly into northup again?

[Con Hennekens]

@Harold-s said in MRA on Carpe Iter, map heading north?:

Northup is finished after recalculation or zooming in or out.

I cannot reproduce the recalculation part.
While zooming, the cameraposition is changed to Top-down mode.
After pressing the compass, the position returns to where it came from.