Vertical Map fantasies

peegee

I’m really and truly happy that Suunto has made a great leap with the maps on our Vertical and that in the last update increased the zoom to 2k which is a game changer.
The speed in which the maps adjust during exercises is wonderful and save a lot of getting lost situations
Having said that I would like the Suunto engineers to keep on improving the maps firstly to help us manage our trail runs and secondly to be able to compete with the rival competition.
This is my short but much needed fantasy list:

The possibility to add to map screen much needed data such as distance, ascent, elevation and pace. On Most of my trail runs I use the map screen but am busy all the time moving screens to get relevant data…
Woul be awesome to have it all on one screen.
Maps with written info… it’s so annoying not to know what is the name of the village your passing…
5k zoom or more… the 2k is a great leap but the more the better

I could go on but these are my main needs (fantasies…)

What are your Vertical map needs / fantasies…?

Egika

@peegee 100% agreed.

babychai

@peegee
Add to your item no.1, i want to see remaining distance & remaining ascent to next the waypoint and also remaining distance & remaining ascent to the next summit/peak.
Need it for my hike and run.

surfboomerang

I agree with all of the suggestions, but I think it’s a difficult balance for Suunto to keep everything readable and fast

Mff73

if the theme is fantasies :), why not a overlayed data screen on the map , with some extra data fields, which you can display/hide at wish ?

So that you have a clean map screen, just to navigate and see all paths and details (no data nowhere), and with a button combination, you can add some of nice metrics.

Egika

I read #1 in the way, that it should be possible to add data to the map screen. Ideally not fixed data, but any of the data fields available from custom sport modes.

MiniForklift

I Personally don’t feel the need to have place names or anything displayed that’s location related. I normally only have the map on when I’m training in places that I’m not familiar with, and now that we have a multitude of map zoom options the likelihood of making a wrong turn is fairly small

I would however like some data on the map screen if it’s readable and not obtrusive. What kind of data would depend on the activity, for example if I’m running/hiking up and down a mountain then ascent and/or altitude would be great to have. If I’m trail or road running I’d probably opt to have the distance displayed somewhere

Luis Andés Olmedo

If Suunto decides to put more information in the maps, I hope they give us the option to deactivate it so as not to have an overloaded and poorly readable map (like Garmin’s)

Ars Vitae

Generally I am happy with these maps, but my minimalist need/fantasy would be:

linear scale,
a preview of the current time,
update map details once in a while.

peegee

@Ars-Vitae yeah current time is important

peegee

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo
The possibility to activate / deactivate would be great

peegee

@MiniForklift it would be wonderful if we could choose which data to display with maps.
I do see the upside of just having the map with nothing to get in the way, but on the other hand having to change screens during a trail run has put me in a few face down on the ground situations

peegee

@Egika at the moment I wrote it I didn’t have in mind the possibility to choose, chhosing is definitely much better than having fixed data

peegee

@Mff73 great idea

Luis Andés Olmedo

@peegee said in Vertical Map fantasies:

@MiniForklift it would be wonderful if we could choose which data to display with maps.
I do see the upside of just having the map with nothing to get in the way, but on the other hand having to change screens during a trail run has put me in a few face down on the ground situations

That is true. Having two fields over the map (i.e. time and distance) is a big help when running in technical trails…

MiniForklift

I posted this on another topic but I will repost here as it is relevant to the OP’s question, I think it would be good if we were able to pause an activity when you are on the map screen. Quite a few times I’ve come to a stop and gone to pause it with the middle button before realising that you can’t do this, so then you have to scroll through a couple of screens before you can pause it

I have got a little better at remembering to cycle through the screens in advance if I know I’m soon going to be stopping, but would be nice to at least have the option to set the middle button to be a ‘Pause’ for those that wanted to

peegee

BTW do you need to calibrate compass very often? I’m not sure if it is after every sync or when I activate a gpx route….
Nevertheless whatever the reason it’s annoying

Egika

@peegee After charging for sure, when starting navigation sometimes.
The question is what is more annoying:
The rather quick calibration or a misleading compass…

Audaxjoe

@peegee My compass needs calibrating regularly, but also seems to calibrate quickly. On the 9 Baro it took ages to calibrate. So for me not much of an issue.

Tieutieu

I really would love to have labels on maps but as a layer that could be activated/disactivated, as said on previous posts, and ability to display one or two metrics (time/distance…)

On other “fantasies” that should be under dev would be to have some king of “OTA” updates of maps corrections from OSM.