Thread: iguidance suggestions/complaints/anything

Custom POI database would be a good one. That would also allow the fleability of internet updates for POI's instead of buying a whole new revision.

Also I am not sure if you have ever used a Garmin GPS, but if you dont have a route planned (just driving with the gps on), then the top streetname bar displays the name of the next corssroad and has the ability to say "approaching Blah Blah Road". So when using the nav routing, then the top street bar displays your next turn, but when just roaming around, it displays the next crossroad.

Then to go with voice prompts, instead of a simple volume and on/off, I think a menu with checkboxes would be nice. So you can select or deselct which prompts to display. So the "approaching road" can be turned on and off. Then the "in xxx feet turn blah" can be turned on/off or set to a greater warning distance, or anything else.

Originally Posted by 2k1Toaster

Also I am not sure if you have ever used a Garmin GPS, but if you dont have a route planned (just driving with the gps on), then the top streetname bar displays the name of the next corssroad and has the ability to say "approaching Blah Blah Road". So when using the nav routing, then the top street bar displays your next turn, but when just roaming around, it displays the next crossroad.

I haven't and this would be a cool feature, but what does it do if you approach a crossroad that is different on the left and right?

Example: In Raleigh, NC driving down a Glenwood Ave I reach one intersection that is Blue Ridge Rd to the right and Lead Mine Rd to the left.

Originally Posted by blafrisch

I haven't and this would be a cool feature, but what does it do if you approach a crossroad that is different on the left and right?

Example: In Raleigh, NC driving down a Glenwood Ave I reach one intersection that is Blue Ridge Rd to the right and Lead Mine Rd to the left.

I dont know. I have only used one when I visit my dad. Perhaps it would display "Lead Mine Rd./Blue Ridge Rd." with the one on your left (as given by current direction of travel being first, and then the one on the right (as given by current direction travel) after the slash. And the audio would be "Approaching Lead Mine Road on the left and Blue Ridge Road on the right".

Now potentially, if driving fast on a highway with a bunch of more rural roads with different names at the same intersection, the TTS engine would get bogged down, so it would have to check if the TTS speech engine was avaialable for speaking. If it was, then speak. If not then wait until it is free, and then once available again, refresh what to speak so it doesnt say "Approaching Rd B" when you just passed C sort of thing. But I think this sort of rarity should be coded in definately, but the majority of times, this would not ever come into play.

1. An SDK of some sort.

2. Ability to search for an POI by just the name, e.g., "Burger King."

3. Enter destination by Lat/Lon. This went away from 2.1.3 to 3.0. We have to reshack go get it back.

4. QWERTY keyboard (optional. Can pick between ABC and QWERTY).

5. Auto-zoom

6. When routing to a new destination, give the user 3 different routes so they can pick one (love this feature in the Prius's nav). What I find is that a lot of the time, iGuidance doesn't necessarily give me the quickest path.

Originally Posted by b8bboi

1. An SDK of some sort.

2. Ability to search for an POI by just the name, e.g., "Burger King."

3. Enter destination by Lat/Lon. This went away from 2.1.3 to 3.0. We have to reshack go get it back.

4. QWERTY keyboard (optional. Can pick between ABC and QWERTY).

5. Auto-zoom

6. When routing to a new destination, give the user 3 different routes so they can pick one (love this feature in the Prius's nav). What I find is that a lot of the time, iGuidance doesn't necessarily give me the quickest path.

@5: yes I like it. I really enjoyed that feature in Streets and Trips. That is where the current position is fixed at the bottom centre, and then the next turn would be always at the top but depending on the bends on the raod the horizontal position sort of moves at the top. So the closer you get the more zoomed in it is sort of thing.

Originally Posted by b8bboi

6. When routing to a new destination, give the user 3 different routes so they can pick one (love this feature in the Prius's nav). What I find is that a lot of the time, iGuidance doesn't necessarily give me the quickest path.

Just so you know, IG does have the ability, it is in settings I believe, I can find it if you need.

I would like the ability to split screen. During Nav, the right hand side would mirror the left, however, they could independantly zoom in and out (though the right would always be forced to be more zoomed in than the left), so that I can get an overall view of where I am, as well as a zoomed in view of exactly which way I have to go/turn/proceed.

Michael

P.S. Do you really think you have INAVs ear on this. Marvin (another member here) is way close with them, and it is my understanding that they are, in general, not very receptive to outside ideas and influence. Perhaps this is changing, but I wonder whether you actually have someone over there willing to listen.

Originally Posted by favian

great ideas, i also wanted speech recognition but that is too far off i'm sure, but if that microsoft voice recognition utility can be combined with iguidance, so i can spell out the street, or say the street name so i don't have to take my hands off the road, damn, that would make it the most premium gps software ever.

Uh, IG4 does have TTS.

Michael