Better display to select POIS ... why not having LIBRARIES of POIS to group them ???

[Mister PYC]

Well well well …
SUUNTO Dev team boys will hate me !!!
I told today that it was my last suggestion … but in fact I have still some more
So work for them if they agree …

Let me tell you my today story …
I was coming from office with my motorbike, still at a good distance from home when she told me … "short petrol soon, my dear " showing me remaining kilometer I can cover …
Well …
I start becoming anxious when I realized that she was decreasing the kiloimeter most probably 3x faster than the reality …
So …
I decided to use my SUUNTO !!!
For a mountainer guy … using his watch when he is with its motorbike … what"s hell is it ???

I did that because I was putting some POI nearby my house …
So I parked the bike, selected the POI I was thinking it was my HOME and start to observe the distance versys what the bike was telling me …

Ouff I survived !!!

However when I was at my home and go to stop the watch… it was writen …
still 1.35 kilometer to do !!!
What’s the hell … my SUUNTO is lying to me ???

No in fact I realized that when I selected the POI … because my personalized text of those nearby my house are all starting by my Town … the rest of the charcteres beign just partially displayed … I took the wrong choice and select the church

So my post

3 proposals here

• Display only 1 POI at a time for selection => more space gained => more text displayed (or bigger)
• When there is a personnalized text, just display it but no other info => more space gained => even more text displayed (or bigger)
• In the Android/Apple APP, why cannot we create libraries of POI
  So … all the POI nearby a place are grouped together, you start to select this place (could be a summit for example) and then only are proposed the POI of that library …
  Doing that you regroup in a very wise manner and als fasten the search …
  Firstly I search in my list of POIS’s library the one where I’m … so a list of places, summits …
  Even if I have a super long list, it will go far much faster to select the good one
  Also all the personalized text will be better displayed (more text bigger font) because I do not need anymore to put the summit name in the personalized text … it is alrready the name of my POIS’s library

Here the example … just of POI name better displayed and without the idea of the library …

BY THE WAY THE SAME LOGIC OF LIBRARY COULD BE APPLIED FOR COURSES …
For example ; It will have been great the 5 days courses of "La haute Route between Chamonix and Zermatt will have been regrouped into a Library of that name … so when I start my journey I go to this library and select … day 3 - blablabla …

[isazi]

POI and route names should be displayed in their completeness, I agree.

[Mister PYC]

@isazi

Super !

What do you think about the idea of grouping POIs into some libraries.
For example, nearby Annecy, there are tons of wonderful mountains.
Having a such notion of group, I will have create one per each mountain so that when I climb one I can very fast select one of its POI. …
…
with a trick … the next time I want to indicate a POIs, the watch start to propose me the latest library I was using … it is the most logical …

[Mister PYC]

@isazi

Hello Isazi and also what do you think about the notion of Library that could be managed in the APP …
it allow to group in a very logical and coherent manner some POI and eventually soem route together … so super easy and faster to retreive

For example :

When I’m in the mountain LA TOURNETTE
if this is a Library, I can have my summer route, my winter route and some POI of that mountain … also the famous proposal of some POI for danger zone …

So when I prepare my journey hte day before I can verify that the libray for LA TOURNETTE is loaded on the watch …
and when start my journey in the morning I can select the library (which now will be the one proposed by default … and inside it I can select onfe of its POI or route … then another one then another one … )

It is not super difficult, just a grouping

[isazi]

@mister-pyc you may be interested in this: https://forum.suunto.com/topic/761/routes-organization

[A Former User]

Don’t know if it helps, but as benchmark Garmin explore app and site have it also.
Still haven’t managed very well to understand how it works (with gpsmap map 64s), but I see that function available

[Mister PYC]

@isazi

Hello Isazi thanks a lot I will put my 2 cents here also

[Mister PYC]

@isazi

Hello Isazi, I have another suggestion which came to my mind and may reduce the need of libraries …
There is already a library in the watch … it is the route itself

Why not to have an additional option : navigate to waypoint, the guy choose a route and the watch propose him
first the BEGINNING of the route
second the END of the route
then … May be the other waypoints sorted as the guy set them …

so no need for any additional development of new concept, but just how to propose route waypoints to be navigated to …

=> the notion of library is already here in the watch … just is missing a new navigation option to navigate to one of the route waypoints … at minima 2 poi placed are saved