(D)Riding modus without A to B route

[DChiel]

Is it possible to integrate a (d)riding modus which shows actual riding speed and active speed limit for current location, without having chosen a A -> B route?

Maybe something to integrate in the base/starting screen of the app?

[Steve Lynch]

@DChiel

This has been requested and is on the list but I don’t think it is currently a Priority item.

[Con Hennekens]

@Peter-Schiefer, Speed indication from GPS is actually very precise. It is just lagging behind a bit. So while accelerating or decelerating it is not reliable, but while driving more or less steady speeds it is much more accurate then any speedometer on a car or bike, which often have a lower margin of about 5% and depend on the wear of your tyres.

You can discuss the necessity indeed, but if you do you can also discuss the necessity of the same thing while navigating. It is handy to have an indication of allowed speed, and current speed in the same glance, either navigating a route or not. Fact is that many users seem to fancy a "free driving mode". It has been requested a lot.

[DChiel]

@Steve-Lynch Thanks for pointing it out to me and understandable it's not prio!

@Peter-Schiefer True! Good vision.

[Con Hennekens]

@Peter-Schiefer, Camera recognition has completely zero to do with GPS accuracy of course, but your comment on the GPS data itself is correct. However, because the speed calculation from GPS data is an average over many measurements with the deviations going all ways, in the end it is a very accurate number because the deviations even themselves out. But let's stay on topic from here.

[Con Hennekens]

@Peter-Schiefer said in (D)Riding modus without A to B route:

Speed data on Sat system are very very often wrong.

I interpreted this as a claim that GPS speed measurement is not accurate. Therefore I felt the need to correct that. Maybe I was misinterpreting?