Thread: BETA testers needed for StreetDeck Europe

15 minutes with reboots. Let me give my co-pilot some work and check it out.

Originally Posted by tomcat

Hi, Chuck.

Wouldn't it be helpful for you if progress/problems found/discussed are being summarized here from time to time?

Replies count is going to reach 100 soon, so, I guess it would give you and people a better overview of tests performed, problems, opinions, requests, etc. (apart from problems of running SD beta itself).

Someting like this:

• "Country" field on address input screen
• PO input
• Display full text in list of found addresses
• non-ASCII characters
• Virtual Earth images scale is different from that of MapPoint
• etc...

What do you think?

Yes this is very helpful. Thanks.

Ok, so here is the compiled list of issues.

I suggest the format of the entries like this :
(too bad I couldn't find a way to insert a table or embed an external page )

Problem[optional links to the respective posts] : Severity : Solution : Status
Request[optional links to the respective posts] : Severity : Description : Status

• Issues found so far (apart from running beta, GPS unit and MapPoint themselves) :

non-ASCII characters support [#36] : High : Either Unicode or "switch codepage" would be great : pending

Address search - "Country" field [#30,#31, #38, #39] : High : Select from current location by default, recall recently used : pending

Address search - "PO box" field [#60] : Medium-high : Great to have : pending

Address search - not all text visible [#44] : Medium : Scroll hilited text (first click hilites entry, second - selects as a destination) : pending

"Auto-suggest" while typing address/name [#36] : Low

POI search - error message box [#44] : Medium : TBF : pending

Map click jumps to the admin center of the selected area [#37, #67] : High : move to the selected point or, at least, do nothing (with some optional response) : pending

Resuming route sometimes has no route "name" [#44] : Medium : Display at least some info to give a hint : pending

"Add POI" button [#51] : Medium : Very nice to have : pending

Driving off-road [#55, #57] : Medium-high : Implement "stick to the route/road" if possible : pending

Virtual Earth map scale mismatch [#60, #62, #71, #74, ...] : Medium-high : Rescale VE image to the MP map scale : pending

Map colors (main roads & highways are black) [#69 : Medium-low : is it MapPoint rendering problem?

Fast driving "lag" [#55, #63, #64] : Medium : would be nice to have an ability to enter some coefficient that would allow to adjust position derived from current speed

Everybody are welcome to review, add, and score

"Auto-suggest" while typing address/name This is not possible due to the database structure.

Driving off-road THis is possible, but at this point, extrememly inefficient.

Fast driving "lag" This is probably GPS smoothing, I never heard back from anyone if this still occurs when GPS smoothing is off.

"Add POI" button This is already possible, just bind something to the "NAV Add current GPS location to Favorites", this can be a key, gesture, or skin element. Its already in the skin if you scroll down in the route type selection module.

The rest have been noted and added to the todo list.

Originally Posted by god_of_cpu

"Auto-suggest" while typing address/name This is not possible due to the database structure.

Driving off-road THis is possible, but at this point, extrememly inefficient.

Fast driving "lag" This is probably GPS smoothing...

"Add POI" button This is already possible, ...

Agree with all points

Will doublecheck against GPS smoothing. But, actually, from my understanding of how it works, it would affect acceleration/deceleration sections of the trip, rather then those with constant speed.
We'lll see...

Originally Posted by god_of_cpu

...Fast driving "lag" This is probably GPS smoothing, I never heard back from anyone if this still occurs when GPS smoothing is off. ...

Well in my post #68 I said:

Originally Posted by Teranga

Having switched the smoothing off, the distance error is smaller, I would say about half of it was.

Then it is already better without smoothing...

Maybe just one more thing so far (was in another thread):

"Simulate navigation" mode [discussions: 1, 2] : Medium-low : Add another navigation mode so SD would simulate driving along current route (will do a great help for preloading Virtual Earth maps along the route) : pending

I installed it yesterday. I had some troubles with my bluetooth adapter for the GPS receiver, so I did not test it yet. I'll make a log tonight when I drive home from work!

Originally Posted by tomcat

Maybe just one more thing so far (was in another thread):

"Simulate navigation" mode [discussions: 1, 2] : Medium-low : Add another navigation mode so SD would simulate driving along current route (will do a great help for preloading Virtual Earth maps along the route) : pending

One workaround could be:

1. Start Streetdeck with "-recordgps"
2. Create the route
3. Drive thru
4. Go back home
5. Get the created gps log file from "My Documents\Streetdeck\Log\GPS", rename it to "gpssim.txt" and put it in "...\Program Files\Streetdeck" folder
6. Start again Streetdeck at home with your lan connection
7. Go to navigation mode, let Streetdeck simulating your drive till it reaches the end of the drive, Streetdeck should cash virtualearth data
8. Close Streetdeck
9. Do a test drive with the same route

Sounds good but I didn't try it yet...