How to Navigate Route as a Track?

[Lenny O]

These discussions are a valuable tool for the development crew to get information.
All in all the product is the BEST on the market hands down, but we still need to appreciate the fact that it is a living and developing product, unlike most others who produce it and never improve it. There will be growing pains and they will eventually get resolved. Corjan an the whole crew are working very hard on the next release, which will be BIG! And, of course, priorities, priorities, priorities.
Coming from 40 years of IT back office programming servicing Wall Street I can totally relate. So, yes, some issues are frustrating at times, but let's all keep the positive attitude and feed constructive criticism down the pipe!
Ride on and smile inside your helmets, folks!

[coupe_vs]

I think the same as you... that we, the end users, can use this forum to give suggestions and contributions so that they can continue improving the best navigation app. With what we've discussed about starting the route forward here and in other posts, plus what other people on the forum have suggested for improvements in how speed camera notifications are handled, I would honestly be satisfied...

[Con Hennekens]

@coupe_vs, It is already explained many times why things are as they are. That's why I am not going into that specific discussion again. I have no doubt that when HERE adds track awareness to their platform, the MRA team will embrace it. Until then it is no use to keep bringing it up, especially by people who already know about it. This is one of those things that cannot be improved until HERE improves it.

For the rest I completely agree with you. This forum is where many ideas have started. Some of my own. And that is certainly valuable and appreciated al lot by the dev team too.

it's not normal to be using a browser and constantly be asked... (should I zoom out and press skip points) or wait?? I'm sorry, that solution could be much better

Is this meant as an analogy? I don't understand it.

[Lenny O]

@Con-Hennekens Let's not get frustrated, my friend!
We all appreciate your help in so many posts and so many ways! Great job!
A couple of things I'd like to mention on the subject.

• I, for one, had no idea that the issue really is with HERE until you just mentioned it above.
  My ignorance? Maybe... as I do not follow the Forum closely enough to be aware of many things, and I suspect many others do not either.

• As MRA membership is growing and more people are using the product (Yay!) it is inevitable that the same questions will pop up. Even if new users read the manuals, check the Forum and most importantly REMEMBER and RETAIN the info from time to time they actually use the Nav.

• So, MAYBE there is a way to make some posts with explanations a "sticky" or create a "Most popular questions" section and have the explanation of common issues placed there.
  This way you or anyone else trying to help out can just give the requester a link to the appropriate place with explanation.

• Even if a user (new or existing) is doing their best to search for answers to their question in the Forum, unless the search criteria is worded "just so", there is a good chance that no answer will be found. (don't ask me how I know...)

Hope I did not take too much of your time, folks!

[Con Hennekens]

@Lenny-O, it takes more than this to get me frustrated I understand that you (like most users) were not aware, but you were not targeted by my comment

Thanks for your suggestions. That's food for thought for the forum admin.

[Lenny O]

@Con-Hennekens All good, my friend! Keep up good work!

[coupe_vs]

@Con-Hennekens

As I mentioned in my previous post last week, we discussed this issue extensively in this forum, and no one mentioned that it was an inherent problem with Here.

In fact, I personally was unaware until you mentioned it that the problem stemmed from Here and its behavior. I was already wondering why the only solution was to zoom out and manually skip points to the next real point on your pre-designed route. In that case, let's hope Here corrects this issue and the improvement can be implemented in future versions of MRA.

[M. Schrijver]

@con-hennekens was targeting me. Because he knows i know about this limition of Here. But that is no reason to put this point aside. It needs to be fixed.
This is a huge limition of Here. If you ask me, MRA should never had choosen Here to be the foundation of their platform. What MRA did with it is amazing. They build a very good platform. Which is very nice to use. No complains there. But Here is holding the navigation quality of MRA back. For me it feels like navigating with a Zumo 350 (about 10-15 years ago). For that time a good device. But not anymore.

[coupe_vs]

I agree completely with you... I was never a big Garmin fan; I think the TomTom base station is generally better... in any case, it's just my personal opinion, nothing more.

[Con Hennekens]

@M.-Schrijver, "targeting" does sind a little harsh but I deliberately kept it nameless, to not spark anything. Actually, the Zumo 350 (like all Zumo's) do a great job of continuing the track when you reach it Zumo's have other deficits though... We agree however on how valuable it would be of MRA could do that thing like Zumo's handle it.

[Herman Veldhuizen]

When the setting "Automatic recalculations" is off the ETA info disappears when I deviate from the track. When I reenter the track the ETA info reappears. So somewhere in the system it is known whether we are on the track or not. Of coarse I don't know where this is and wether MRA can get this info or not.