Re: Wayfinder map app update (2.2.8.604) - thoughts
 

I think they've made it easier to see the overview of the calculated route. The button that you press to see the whole route now displays it for longer (was about 0.2 seconds or something stupid). It also seems easier to browse and zoom in on the route. For me, thats a useful improvement.

There's lots of things I would still like to see improved that could be done very easily.

Re: Wayfinder map app update (2.2.8.604) - thoughts
 

I'll check this out, it has the possiblity of being useful if it stayed on the screen long enough fo you to read it!

Re: Wayfinder map app update (2.2.8.604) - thoughts
 

For me the overview stays on the screen for a whole 3 seconds now. Which is still next to useless. TomTom used to offer a "view route" option with both text and map views. And it stayed on screen until you exited it. Now that was useful.

Re: Wayfinder map app update (2.2.8.604) - thoughts
 

Yes, this is one of the thing I most miss from the TomTom that I used to run on my TH55 :(

Also, I would like that it turned the big keyboard on by default a là Canola, instead of bringing the standard one...

Re: Wayfinder map app update (2.2.8.604) - thoughts
 

I didn't test last version, but in older versions your application and the voice had to be set to the same language :mad:

Re: Wayfinder map app update (2.2.8.604) - thoughts
 

The overview display is shown all the time u depress the distance button ->· so no change in behaviour for me. If u tap the button, u get a brief pulse of the overview as before.

Nice u can set a route before it gets a GPS fix as u sit in the car setting it up..

What I have noticed for 1st time is it has started to suggest fast routes thru central London rather than M25 to get to Heathrow from bottom of M11! It goes 100yards from Buckingham Palace - mad. And it asks if u want to allow routeing thru Congestion Charge area - despite saying no tollroads in options. Very annoying and brain dead.

Re: Wayfinder map app update (2.2.8.604) - thoughts
 

I'm not familiar with London and my English is a little weak. Could you please explain your problems in other words?

Re: Wayfinder map app update (2.2.8.604) - thoughts
 

I just used my N810 to navigate from NY to Chicago. So here is my experiences...

First, I got a GPS fix with the N810's built in GPS within about a minute and a half while driving from a cold start. The weather was snowing so I was surprised to see such a quick lock.

The route calculated perfectly. Voice guidance was pretty accurate in giving prompts about distance with upcoming turns and exits. I didn't have one missed turn or exit so I was happy. Got me exactly where I was going on a long trip with no mistakes.

In Chicago, we were using my friends stand alone GPS (Mio - don't recall the model number) and we were searching for a "Trader Joes." The stand alone GPS could only find "Joe Trader" so we thought it must be a typo. Nope, it wasn't. So we lost about an hour after fighting traffic. We go home and I grab my N810. Open up map and search for "Trader Joes" and bam... like 5 locations come up. I was totally shocked that my N810 could find Trader Joes but my friends stand alone GPS could not.

This is strange... I had to make a quick trip to the post office so I grab my N810 and start map... do a POI search for post offices and tons come up... cool. But what sucked is that the closest one map could find was 3.3 miles away. I knew one was closer so I hop online and sure enough, 1 is only a half mile away. And what sucks more is that map had a post office POI icon where the post office was on the actual map, but doing a POI search could not find it.

Another thing I'd like to see is the ability to change the pointer color and remove the ring around it. When you are using the day setting, the color of the pointer is not much different than the background color... not a big deal, but if it were red or blue it'd be easier to see at a quick glance.

So even tho the map application has a bunch of stuff that could be done to make it a much better app, I still use it and like it. It's got it's +'s and it's -'s.

jbk

Re: Wayfinder map app update (2.2.8.604) - thoughts
 

London has an enormous orbital motorway, the M25. If you imagine a clock, the M11 (Cambridge to London) joins at about 1 o'clock (about J24 IIRC). Heathrow is at about 9 o'clock (J15).

The fastest way from where the M11 joins the M25 to Heathrow (London's biggest airport) is to go anti-clockwise around the M25. Depending on the time of day, this should take (OTTOMH) about 30-45 minutes.

An alternative route would be to drive all the way in to the centre of London and back out again. This would mean you were liable to pay London's Congestion Charge. This route would take you about 90 minutes, be hell to drive and cost you money.

If Wayfinder are now suggesting routes through the centre of London, the routing algorithm is now seriously FUBAR.

Re: Wayfinder map app update (2.2.8.604) - thoughts
 

Either that or Wayfinder is getting a kickback from London's congestion system ;)