Position on map and other pleasant things...

Cookie On Tour

Hej Hej,

I am on a road trip in Sweden and like to share some funny things, I experienced with the MyRoute-App on my iPhone 15 Pro Max connected via Apple CarPlay to a Carpuride Screen.

Sometimes, the position symbol (set to be shown in 3D driving direction) is ahead of my current position - as an example, the symbol is already at the upcoming crossroad, while I am still driving towards it.
What I mean is, if I must turn right (or left) at the crossroad, the position symbol continues to move straight ahead, because in real I am not yet at the crossroad itself. So, the symbol, as it is ahead of my position, goes beyond the turn, i.e. the symbol moves into the wilderness or even into houses.
The roads just move down, sometimes out of the screen and can't be seen anymore.
The strange thing here is, that the route voice commands exactly know where I am, as they still say for example, turn right (or left) in 300 meters. And when I am really at the crossroad, it says turn right (or left) now.

Next, fun element are railroads. They display normal. But then a single railroad becomes a two-lane railroad, but not enough the two lanes do cross in an unregular zick-zack, but furthermore the railroad starts to move from right to left of the road I am driving on. It looks like that the railroads are fixed, and the map moves below the rails. So, I often tried to find the plenty railroad crossings the map is showing but the railroads are sometimes a few meters up to hundred meters away from the road and go in parallel and there are no crossings.

Oh, I love that for Sweden a warning comes up for speed checks, a nice warning sound is displayed. What I don't understand, the app stopped playing a warning sound when I am over the speed limit with a certain number of kilometers too fast. The speed meter turns red, to indicate that I am too fast, but no more sound.

Then I set to avoid gravel roads, a nice message appears, that the route could not avoid the route into the gravel road, so far so good. However, while on the gravel road the message about the route violation pops up repeatedly. This is somehow unnecessary. The first message about route violation is okay and I accept, but while on the gravel road, I know I am on the gravel road, and I know that the route could not be done without using the gravel road. The annoying thing is that after a few hundred meters the violation warning comes again... and again... and again - yes, it is a long gravel road and plenty warning messages to click away during the ride.

Anyone else having these easter eggs? There were a few more glitches, I can't recall right now...

Brian McG

@Cookie-On-Tour said in Position on map and other pleasant things...:

Sometimes, the position symbol (set to be shown in 3D driving direction) is ahead of my current position - as an example, the symbol is already at the upcoming crossroad, while I am still driving towards it.

This is a known issue & I had similar to you last week on tour in Spain.
I sort of worked out that in the plan view the problem was less noticeable compared to the tilt or north up view

What was really a nice was I received a friendly warning in the app ( a green notification popup ) advising me to turn off Map Style > Elevation Difference > Off
This reduced the effect hugely

Cookie On Tour

@Brian-McG said in Position on map and other pleasant things...:

What was really a nice was I received a friendly warning in the app ( a green notification popup ) advising me to turn off Map Style > Elevation Difference > Off

Well, this, as per the information icon, counts only for the map style "Explore" and "Topographical" - so did you use one of these?

UPDATE - Sorry for asking just saw that "Explore" is the standard LOL

Well, reading your post - I remember that I once had the phenomenon that the road suddenly stopped (was cut) and continued a few centimetres offset to the left. It looked like that the road was leading to a steep cliff and continued behind the ridge.

Cookie On Tour

@Cookie-On-Tour said in Position on map and other pleasant things...:

Oh, I love that for Sweden a warning comes up for speed checks, a nice warning sound is displayed. What I don't understand, the app stopped playing a warning sound when I am over the speed limit with a certain number of kilometers too fast. The speed meter turns red, to indicate that I am too fast, but no more sound.

Update: I found the setting, I must have changed it somehow, the warnings were set to just "speed controls" - now back to "all".

Cookie On Tour

@Cookie-On-Tour said in Position on map and other pleasant things...:

Then I set to avoid gravel roads, a nice message appears, that the route could not avoid the route into the gravel road, so far so good. However, while on the gravel road the message about the route violation pops up repeatedly. This is somehow unnecessary. The first message about route violation is okay and I accept, but while on the gravel road, I know I am on the gravel road, and I know that the route could not be done without using the gravel road. The annoying thing is that after a few hundred meters the violation warning comes again... and again... and again - yes, it is a long gravel road and plenty warning messages to click away during the ride.

Question, I just found a setting where the (I) Information says "search for route violations" - is this setting just to turn off the displayed warning for a violation like gravel roads, or will the app start to route via gravel roads, if I try to avoid them in general?