Automatic Scale & Orient to Driving/Riding Speed
As a motorcyclist that uses your product for on and off road applications over the past 4 years - I struggle with two main issues. Both are somewhat related as one causes the other. But a single solution could fix both issues.
Trying to keep my eyes on the road, and my hands on the bars - it can be very difficult sometimes to keep the map scale appropriate to see turns and upcoming warnings for the rapidly changing riding speed of coming off a paved road into a forest road, or side trail. I can double tap zoom in- but there is no tap out feature. And sometimes tapping while not staring at the screen causes a swipe - which then tosses me out of the traking frame. I can pinch zoom - but then it tosses me out of the direction up tracking mode. I can stop and take my gloves off and on 40 times a day - but that gets old.
Solution (not perfect - but hopefully better). I would love to have a "Drive" feature I could turn on that 1.) the software auto defaults my preferred map orientation and tracking rather than defaulting to center no move only. 2.) allowed me to determine zoom scales based on particular speeds - i.e. - at 5mph be at 500ft, at 10 mph at 700ft, at 15mph - 1200ft, at 30mph 2500 ft, at 45mph 5000 ft and at 60mph 8,000ft. Something like this so that as I slow down or speed up I don't have to fiddle with the phone.
This will be my third time in four years (even though under different user names) requesting this, so I hope at some point someone will consider this.
-
Could be a useful feature. Two other features I'd like for motorcycle riding are:
1. Bigger buttons - so you can press them easily with gloves on.
2. In sparsly populated terrain with very few roads, have the program continue to show small roads even when zoomed out. Like a road-density indicator, and if the road pathways are not dense at all, continue to show when zooming out.
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
12 comments