turn by turn instructions to early
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@pmossy just want to confirm that i also have problems with the instructions. many times a turn-by-turn note comes for the corner after next even I didn’t get to the next corner. (lets say if they are 50m apart). that’s quite confusing if your watch tells you “LEFT” but you supposed to go right and then only on next corner left.
you get the point… something I never struggled with on my garmin fenix. so not sure if they do it speed-sensitive and that might help.not a deal breaker, just wanted to confirm that I also have this problem. for me it’s trail running, routes creates directly via suunto app.
best, thomas
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I followed a route (trail running) last weekend and turn notifications came more or less 100m before the turn. I concur it can be sometimes too early.
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@Thomas-Hertz stranamente anche a me su un percorso creato tramite SA molte volte mi diceva di svoltare dalla parte opposta del tracciato;
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A turn notification 100m before a turn would make sense if you did not have a complex of 3 or more turns all within 100 meters. I have found this to be rather annoying when I have to make 3+ turns and the watch telling me to make 3+ turns even before I have made the first one meaning I have to try and remember them all. Ideally if the GPS is reliable it should be able to tell to make a turn at a junction as well.
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@altcmd Agreed, they need to add a navigation screen with names of upcoming turns/waypoints and distance away.
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@LitchiMonster my suggestion would be to make the upcoming turn sticky (unless dismissed) at 20m mark, at least for running or hiking. Otherwise it might be pointless to have turn-by-turn and I end up getting more confused and have to disable it.
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It seems to me that the second subplot is much more problematic. It seems to me that the second subplot is much more problematic. In my experience (running), the first instructions appears about 100m before a turn and that is OK. The second instructions most often occurs for me just before a turn. The problem is that it displays information about the next step. This is where the circuses occur because it is often conflicting information. Of course, it is signed as: “Next…” but realistically it looks like I run into an intersection and the watch displays an arrow to the right, when I should be turning left! This sucks!
Especially when you miss the earlier hint. Which isn’t hard to do, since you know what kind of vibrations Suunto watches have
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I think an easy comparison here is how Garmin does it which is how a typical sat nav works. With Garmin, even if a second turn comes immediately after the first and all within 100 meters, you only see the second turn notification after the first. It does not have to difficult if Suunto pays some attention to the logic flow of notifications here.
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Is there any plan on the horizon for Suunto to look in to this and streamline notification for turn-by-turn directions?
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Im still trying to get a good handle on routing and turn by turn before a big 4-day backcountry hike coming up, and today made this simple map in SA. Question: I drew each section of the map exactly like another, but does anyone know why only the first 3 turns added directional arrows and gave me a heads up about the turns, but the rest of the map did not? After the last arrow turn a pop came up that just said something like ‘Next: END’ and I had no routing queues for the remainder.
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@mikekoski490 yes. From the exact locations of the blue line it looks like you were in free line drawing mode. Turn by turn is generated only when using the routing along some roads or paths afaik.
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@aroo7 regarding the issue with tbt, I can confirm I have just the same behaviour, I contacted support about this already more than a year ago, they are simply unable/unwilling to do sth about this. I only got some idiot reply stating deleting and reinstalling suunto app, rebooting the watch, soft and hard reset , all without result. I simply switched to coros, they are simply the best. So to avoid being frustrated a simple switch does the thing. Kind regards.
