Your ideal satnav - wish-list of features

Chuffer4 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 14, 2008 Posts: 10

I have an old Garmin 2440 and have updated the maps a couple of times and I think it's great, but..............

I have not found a way, if indeed it is even possible, to enter way points, or just go here via this one point, I know I could upload .gpx files but that's very time consuming if you only need from here goto Newport via Hereford.

For those very detailed routes for me it's OsmAnd on my tablet uploading Google maps .gpx files which works a treat !

Adding this feature to my Garmin would be the cream on the cake.

K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

Since you ask :D :D

I still have my old TomTom one V4 which still does most of what I want but is not updatable Sad

But not being a Luddite I also have most of the apps out there.

I want to see all or any of my pushpins on the screen so I can see where they are in relation to each other, like National trust places near to my camp sites so I can plan a route, maybe also places where I can get LPG on enroute.

I want all my devices to be in sync with eachother so if I add a new place (or delete one) it happens on all of them either via Bluetooth or WiFi, it should be simple enough as they're all Android, no fruit based devices here :D :D

To be honest Maps.me does get very close to my needs, but guidance is not great, and only one choice of route, the search needs a really good kick.

A new one I'm trialling is Magic Earth from Route 66, which looks like it may become a favourite if they implement some of my recent suggestions to them.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.generalmagic.magicearth

The one app I wish would sort itself out is CoPilot, it offers so much but doesn't really deliver, IE Default POI categories we can't delete, combined with a limit of how many of our own we can have, you cannot see distant POIs along the route when in the planning stage, only in a small radius, although it does give route options, they are sometimes ludicrously long (I have examples of those) not to mention actually getting POIs onto a device, a real PITA as you all know.

sussamb · Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 11:04 am Post subject:

gwynnej3 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 05, 2006 Posts: 5

Ability to add my own POIs is what is most important, including Pocket GPS World speed camera alerts.

JG

K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

Sheryck · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2007 Posts: 1

Hi Darren, what I have used for years and wish could be incorporated in SatNav apps is the PC version of TYRE which enables a complicated itinery to be created and downloaded with ease. A close second and the best app without doubt is OsmAnd but a little geeky for some. TomTom's Windy Routes is no substitute when it comes to creating an interesting motorcycle route. Thumbs Up

K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

GBsh · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2008 Posts: 2

I live in DEVON and one of the problem with the current TOMTOM 1005 or any of them is the lack of control to select road types.. TOMTOM routing program assumes that a 60mph road is faster than an A road going through a 40 mph small town. However all country roads and single tracks are national speed limit ie 60mph BUT the actual speed/safe speed is well down below 40 mph.. Therefore the A road at 40mph is much faster than the back single track road..

I / we need a button which says "don't route via" then list road types A B C D & M etc to give free choice. Like now we can say no to :- Ferries or toll road.

CWT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 14, 2012 Posts: 2

My main bugbears with my car sat nav is it doesn't show current speed & clock is far too small & mixed with other data

Chuffer4 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 14, 2008 Posts: 10

Quote.....I have an old Garmin 2440 and have updated the maps a couple of time and I think it's great, but..............

I have not found a way, if indeed it is even possible, to enter way points, or go here via this one point, I know I could upload .gpx files but that's very time consuming if you only need from here goto Newport via Hereford.

For those very detailed routes for me it's OsmAnd on my tablet uploading Google .gpx files which works a treat !

Adding this feature to my Garmin would be the cream on the cake.

sussamb wrote at 11.04 If I understand you correctly you can do that. Do an initial Where to, select your destination and hit Go. Once the route has calculated do another Where to and this time select the via point and hit Go. You'll be asked if you want to start a new route or add it to the existing route. Choose add to existing route and your nuvi will then add the viapoint in.

Chuffer You do understand me correctly and as you correctly say it works !.

Not the sort of thing you would try having entered one destination to try to enter another so I never saw the add to route message.

Remember the days when to used to get a printed manual, or even one on a CD, with your purchase that you could sit and read to discover all it's features.

Thanks for the heads up, that's the quickest I've ever had wish list features added..

PeterSm · Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 8:58 pm Post subject:

Hi,
I'd like to see

• the ability for it to "learn"... i.e you go a set way every time for part of a long route but the satnav calculates the same different route every time...appreciate you'll eventually meet up, you can force a via or it recalcuates when its got over being annoyed at you....but be nice if it got it right 1st time..
• As per numerous ideas, the ability to pick and choose what pois to show (Garmin)
• Again its been asekd but the ability to use the device with a start/end average speed display
• The Nicky Grist/Colin McRae voice pack - Left 30 over crest, Four left Opens into a Five left Plus...etc
or the Murray Walker/James Hunt one Turn Left at junction....its right Murray.. :-)

Keep up the good work guys...

sussamb · Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 9:22 pm Post subject:

johnrobinson123 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 17, 2006 Posts: 3

It would nice to see altitude displayed on tomtom screen. So when going up mountains you are able to see what hight I'm at.

sussamb · Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 7:47 am Post subject:

You can on Garmins but elevation data derived from GPS isn't that accurate.
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jolly47roger · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 11, 2008 Posts: 116

If I'm on a motorway for the next x miles, I would like a unit that switches its display off until, say, 3 miles before I need to know anything rather than being on continuously.

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