Please could you post your suggestions relating to: Walk. If you would like to discuss a particular suggestion, please feel free to create a new posting. Many thanks!
Please make it possible to turn of the way one's position snaps to nearby roads.
The system calculated route is given as a light blue highlight. The distance box on the map in straight line mode is a light blue box. Within both there is white writing: either street or distance. This is very difficult to read. Different colour scheme would benefit those of us with poor eyesight.
Option for a saved red dot track. To both create our own off road route and enable crumbs for track back.Could be uploadable to Ovi maps?
Or rather than red dots why not red arrows giving direction of travel. A track back button could reverse the arrows for a path back?
Pre journey Multiple way points to be easily set through the double screen tap method. Multiple way points to be added during travel possibly through single button press.
In urban navigation with street mode active an additional option for secondary roads or tertiary roads only. This would reduce the system generated routes adding major roads with no footpaths.
It would be nice have the step counter too.
It would be nice too have some decimal on speed i.e. 4,23 km/h not only 4 km/h or 5 km/h
the time over the transfer traffic kb is the time of arrival or the clock time? if the second it could be placed between options and stop and have the same time of the clock of the phone (there is one minute of differences.
Navio
Nokia N97 V12.0.024 RM 505
As 5800 owners don't have digital compass the gps does not know if we're looking north or south but when it starts the walk navigation it says "head north" or east or south ..
it should have a better way to identify more accurately where to go.
yesterday I left the metro and I was supposed to "head east" but how will I know if is right or left or even worst am I in the right side of the street?
and because there ARE A LOT of errors on maps here in South America the GPS took 5 minutes to figure out that I was going to a wrong direction but because it doesn't have a "recalculation" mode I just found out when I stopped getting instructions over the phone, you know, it is not safe to walk with a mobile on the streets.
I can suggest stuffs from my last trip to London:
If I am using the walking mode on a mobile it means I really have no idea about the place I am, so it would be nice to have more information available:
- Subway station would be great (haven't found on places to show on map);
- Clock and Weather, a small icon/number on the corner;
- Sun-rise and Sun-set, it is good if you want to appreciate them on a park;
- Residencial, Commercial, Industrial area zones;
- Zones where "tourist people" usually go (where to find lots of shops, parks, etc like Via Sol in Madrid, I am new on the city so have no idea where on a map I should go to see stuffs);
If I get a "high speed" on walking mode it should "pause", it may be because I got a bus, a train, or a bike, that doesn't mean I am on a car avoiding the driving navigation fee.
If you lost signal when it lock again it shouldn't recalculate not stop navigation, there are tunnels, subway, shop malls we usually get into before get to the final destination.
- "repeat" what was just said would be good too
- detour, sometimes you are directed to a street and when you get there you really want to avoid it
- users should be allowed to "send" routes, based on the number of these new routes it would be included into the maps, and the other users can allow or not have this "personalized" routes, so we will have better accuracy on the go and not sticked to a delayed map upgrade.
ok .. no more ideas :-p
I suggest that one could choose between: shortetst walk; most panoramic walk; walk along roads; walk not along roads; [always: as much as possible].
I would like to see 'official' walks given by their name, e.g. Thames path, London (their are two: one on each side of the Thames).
- The ability to show your tracks and save the tracks you drove, walked or hiked to a standard gpx file. This file can be saved to your computer and uploaded to maps sites to share with others the track you took. Have a track organizer to manage your tracks.
- Geotag photos to your tracks.
- Satellite and terrain option. I don't know why Ovi Maps would leave this feature out since it is almost standard to have them in many map sites and is built into to google maps mobile. This was in the earlier releases of Ovi maps and is not in the newer releases.
Overall I think Nokia/Ovi is doing an awesome job in getting the users involved in the development of a great product.
While I can see the sense of snapping to roads when using drive navigation, I (and I'm sure a majority of Ovi Maps users) use the app on foot. When on foot, I am not restricted to roads, and it makes no sense for my location blip to stick to them. It actively impedes my ability to navigate by spuriously changing my location.
Align-to-route is useful at significant speeds or with a perfect GPS lock. However if the user is moving at low speeds (such as walking) or not at all and the GPS lock is imperfect, the only route seen is the spurious drift in the reported position. It wobbles all over the place.
Just so you people know, Nokia doesn't watch this forum anymore. Of course I have no hard proof of this, but the evidence is clear. They got what they wanted (bug reports), and beyond that they'll add whatever features they feel like adding. Then when the new release comes out -- and don't ask when because they won't tell -- they'll ask us for more bug reports, then silently slip away again. It's the Nokia way!
I agree with you Nokia is not watching this forum anymore. Only God can do some coding to improve navigation and release it to us.
Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition,
Tomtom Go720,
Ohio, USA.
We should all know now that the Maps development team do look at this forum, but they do not communicate in it very often. I like to think this is because they are all hard at work trying to fix the app. When it come to the N97 the Maps Team have worked very hard to soft out in software an issue which was embedded in hardware, which was the poor performance of the GPS reception on the N97. This can be fixed, as I have advised in another post, by taking your N97 into a Nokia Care Point and requesting the GPS fix is done on your device. I have been informed that this is referred to in a service bulletin from Nokia called "GPS Performance Improvement". This bulletin advises that this will improve GPS performance by 2 - 4 dBm. It works. I've had it done.
mbrett
N97 RM-505 (Product Code: 0585262 (Vodafone UK)) FW 20.0.019
N95 8Gb (Product Code: 0558787 (UK)) FW 31.0.015
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