Feature request: One-tap Ride mode button for navigation, track following and guidance

Karl Maier shared this idea 21 days ago
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Feature request: One-tap “Ride mode” button for navigation, track following and guidance

I ride a motorcycle with the phone mounted on the handlebar. Today navigation was nearly unusable: my position kept drifting off the screen, and restoring the view took up to three taps on the centering button. Each tap changes a different state (centered, rotated, north-up). “Hold map center” showed the blue lock but did nothing, because centering had already been lost. On a motorcycle, fiddling with the map like this is dangerous.

Suggestion: a prominent “Ride mode” button (and/or an automatic option when navigation, track following or guidance starts) that sets everything in one step:

center on my position

rotate in the direction of travel

shift the map center down

activate “Hold map center”

optionally activate the screen lock

Additionally: if “Hold map center” is active but the map isn’t centered, the lock icon should show that. Or better: “Hold map center” should restore centering and rotation by itself.

Thanks, Holger!

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In the expert settings, there is an option to control the center button and the alignment button separately; for example, centering only had an on/off switch, And orientation button, direction of travel north, direction of travel north.

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Setting everything up as desired at startup already works. I'm working with default settings here. Presets

I even configured it via Tasker so that my bike's Bluetooth is recognized and a preset is automatically selected.

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Hello freischneider!
Thanks a lot for your hints. Without „Dual centering button“ "on" in expert settings it works much more intuitive. One button for centering and locking and the compass button for orientation.

Very nice that the settings will be kept after restart. Will test this during navigation condition, too.

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