Offline Maps and Routing in Suunto App

[pavel.samokha]

@Tomas5 the reverse case is:

I’m somewhere in mountainous not very populated area and I’m searching where to park before going on a hike.

Quite likely there will be also a parking without any explicit tags. Putting it on highest zoom levels will be inconvenient - hard to find, as I will need to scroll a lot.

I’m not arguing it looking overcrowded in the city, but explaining the tradeoffs here. I will think what else we can do

[pavel.samokha]

@Tomas5

I was talking more about the cases like this:

Out of central large P rightmost is marked as private, but three others are not. Hard to believe it’s public - I rather think it’s not tagged properly.

[maszop]

@Tomas5 Offline maps are more useful in areas without coverage, so it’s better to have more information on the map outdoors.
In more populated areas, it’s still more convenient to use online maps. Except in places requiring roaming, but that’s definitely rarer.

[Tomas5]

@pavel.samokha said in Offline Maps and Routing in Suunto App:

@Tomas5

I was talking more about the cases like this:

Out of central large P rightmost is marked as private, but three others are not. Hard to believe it’s public - I rather think it’s not tagged properly.

Most of them is for residents only now. City converted it from public recently i believe.

[Tomas5]

@maszop yes in suunto app it is true. But if this labels will get into watch in some point, there is no such thing like online version. And rendering so much parking lots will make map in city harder to use. Maybe allow to display/hide this interest points. So i can for example keep restaurants but hide parking or vice versa. For example on Bike trip i am interested in restaurants and cafeteria but i will not look for parking lot when on bike.

[Tomas5]

@pavel.samokha said in Offline Maps and Routing in Suunto App:

@Tomas5 the reverse case is:

I’m somewhere in mountainous not very populated area and I’m searching where to park before going on a hike.

Quite likely there will be also a parking without any explicit tags. Putting it on highest zoom levels will be inconvenient - hard to find, as I will need to scroll a lot.

I’m not arguing it looking overcrowded in the city, but explaining the tradeoffs here. I will think what else we can do

Possibly yes. But if you plan trip by car to mountains. Usually you start in city so you can set navigation directly to parking spot you need. And i believe no one will ever use suunto app as car navigation. And for doing sport activity, parking is not important that much if you are not doing motosports.

Either way it is still better than blind map like currently in watch. So take this just as feedback for possible improvement.