First questions about the Race 2
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@Tomas5 There are offline maps on your phone that work without internet. Why display such things on a tiny watch screen?
The POI icons themselves make more sense.
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@dreamer_ said in First questions about the Race 2:
In Garmin the saturation is specially on big cities, and when you are walking in a big city you are very likely using your mobile phone (and running I’m not sure at all if they do have sense in big cities). So perhaps POIs do not have much sense in that scenario and to see an oversaturated (and slow) map. Perhaps some street names can be useful though.
Garmin has a lot of room to improve here because walking with the watch in that scenario can be really frustrating.Not many people go deep into configuration options on Garmin, but Garmin maps do have level of details as a configuration option - Low, Medium, High. Depending on this option, the map turns on or off certain map elements - POIs, trails, etc.
I wonder if the same could be done by Suunto. I understand that Garmin uses vector maps and Suunto uses bitmap (raster) maps. But perhaps map elements could be made transparent through color mapping or opacity channel - modern graphics accelerators should do that efficiently. I suppose Suunto already does something like that because different map elements (trails, forest roads, residential roads) disappear at different map zoom levels.
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@sky-runner a little correction of my posts. It seems I only see now the waterdrops on my Epix Pro even on towns by default. Something has changed, I remember a very saturated map. But that was a while ago. I suppose I can look further at settings (by default is just fine now for me)
