Zooming in CarPlay & Android Auto

[M. Schrijver]

Vandaag weer gereden.
Een automatische zoom is er niet in AA. Je ziet af en toe wel een beweging dat op automatische zoom lijkt maar het is zo beperkt dat het geen naam van zoom mag hebben.
Omdat automatische zoom niet naar behoren werkt, heb ik door onduidelijkheid toch een paar keer een verkeerde afslag genomen.

Toevallig gisteren weer eens met HereWeGo gereden. Deze heeft wel netjes een werkende automatisch zoom in AA.
Komt er een afslag in beeld. Dan wordt er netjes steeds verder op die afslag ingezoomd. Na het nemen van de afslag wordt er weer uitgezoomd.
Nu vind ik de standaard zoom niveau van HereWeGo veel te ver uitgezoomd maar dat is een andere discussie.

[Fridjof]

@Corjan-Meijerink , selecting waypoint of AA screen not working, phone OK
yesterday i did a nice ride in our area, prepared a route like a brezel, used the route as a track with all waypoints (~every 2 km) .
at an unwantedt shortcut with rerouting active the ride went craczy and at the end mra quits, after restarting the route with deactivated rerouting I schoud start from poit 1 instead of point 29 infront of me, I tried to shortcut to the point by pressing the point om the AA Screen, nothing changes only the map where paned, by doing the same on the phone it works a expected and the restart of the Track / route work well.
is this a known problem, can you reproduce it?,
best regards,
Fridjof

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Fridjof Well, you by design from Android Auto (and CarPlay) not select anything on the map by tapping
This is a user distraction while driving so not permitted.

[GT JWR]

@white-mouse unless I misunderstand what your saying (and I don't think I am), this did not work for me either. I can use the +/- to zoom in or out as desired, which then stayed on that zoom level unless adjusted again. A click on the icon that opened the zoom level did absolutely nothing.

I'm with all the others on this issue - if zoom (among other things) does not work properly on CarPlay, the Next App is unusable to me.

Seems every update takes 3 steps forward and 2 steps backward - a lot of past issues that were solved seem to come back - like zoom, wapypoint skipping, online vs offline, unable to calculate, etc. Seems like each update overwrites a previous fix.

[Fridjof]

@Corjan-Meijerink
what is your solution to deal with this situation / problem?
regards

[Léon Hassing]

@Fridjof Is your finding related to the subject of this thread: Zooming in Carplay/Android auto?

[Fridjof]

@Léon-Hassing
zooming is one of the needed on screen interactions on the dash AA or CP screen,
when MRA offers a feature to go dirct to a further point to shorten a route or skip some points on the phone screen while in a driving session with AA, I like to have this option also on the AA screen,
while driving I ca change the APP, skip or pause mp3 files, having a phone call, but no manual option to solve a scrambled route operating the AA Screen, why i can zoom and pan the map, but not selecting a given way or shaping point for reroutind the loaded route?

[Con Hennekens]

@Fridjof, this basically comes down to Apple and Google limitations. They don't allow a lot of interaction in their apps. So the use of AA/CP comes with limitations. That is why many people prefer a native device.

[M. Schrijver]

Yes, AA/ACP has limitations.
For navigation apps, the biggest limitions i encounter are when you start a route or select a destination. These functionality is to limited in AA/ACP (in general).
But when the route is on your screen, then the limitations are not really limitations at all. Because when the navigation does it's job, then there is no need to touch the screen.

I am a fan of AA. Nice big built-in screen and a clean interface.

[David Rudgley]

I used MRA Navigation Next at the weekend through my AA Capuride W702 which was mostly a good experience. The only issue I have been getting is how the map is displayed on the Phone App is different on the AA device. The tilt and dynamic zoom doesn't look right whereby I don't get the same degree of 'look ahead' on AA compared to the phone screen. I have adjusted the Map Layer, Default Zoom correction and Tilt correction both at max (+2.0 and +15) which seemed to work for me. I have compared with TomTom Go and Google Maps and they don't suffer the same display difference between Phone and AA.

[Adrian Avram]

@David-Rudgley its also different between CarPlay and Android Auto. Car Play has more tilt and looks much better !