Sébastien Litaize's bike travelogue

App: reroute / ignore dialog too intrusive

Hi Richard & all,

On a recent bike-camping trip, I used the app exclusively for directions. It worked very well indeed, voice guidance + a quick glance at the screen is all you need. My setup is SE 2nd gen inside Thule handlebar bag, so landscape mode with touchscreen working, but no home & side buttons from outside. Still, I noticed a few points that could be improved, so here are my suggestions :

1) The "reroute/ignore" popup is masking the map. When it's cold & raining, stopping / removing gloves / dismissing the popup / putting gloves / restarting is really no fun. In landscape, just putting the "reroute" button in the lower right of the screen, just after the street name, would be fine. If it's a small obstruction, the user can see the map and turn at a nearby street to get back on track (in essence, that's implicit ignore). If really a reroute is needed, the button is still there in the corner. This is the biggest issue I had.

2) When off-route for more than a few minutes, I tried to "double-tap" to switch the backlight off. Would nicely complement the "double-tap" to wake up the screen when on-route ;-)

3) When rejoining the route, the direction shown / spoken is wrong (it's the direction if we had been on the route already)

4) The ETA is wishful thinking when bike-camping (I hoped it would pull the average speed from my web profile, but nope)

5) In landscape mode, neither the clock nor the battery level are shown. In portrait they both are (might be an OS thing)

Talking about battery life, doing a full day (6+ hours) on a single charge is a stretch. A quick top-up during lunch is the way to go.

Also, as others have noted and you already explained, the routing is fine for daytrips, but when heavily loaded it's a good idea to look for less hilly alternatives, such as https://cycle.travel/by/s_bastien_litaize/cork_passagewest_ferry instead of https://cycle.travel/by/s_bastien_litaize/cork_ferry .

Thanks for the great website & app, I now need to become a supporter.

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