euphi
Wow, great project! But I think step-by-step navigation directions give very little help
Hi 👋🏻 I found a fork of your project made by a guy who seems interested in DIY bike navigation computer. He also forked my project, a navigation display for OsmAnd, that works surprisingly similar 😁 I was really wondered someone is making a navigation companion trying to solve the same problems I faced.
After I made the first version of my display, with arrows and distances, I found it useless – data refresh rate is too low, and just arrows without the map don't really give me much clue on where to turn on complex junctions. So I made a second version, that displays the real map.
Have you tried riding an unknown route having only step-by-step directions on the screen? What are your thoughts on that? Did they help you to navigate?
In the last week I used the komoot BLE feature a lot to try it. Results are mixed.
- It is helpful on uncomplicated tracks (e.g. small country roads with simple junctions)
- In some cases it worked suprisingly great, e.g. on a 6way-track-junction in the middle of the forest.
- In many cases the next navigation instruction after the current one would be needed to make instruction unambigious.
- komoot sucks as navigation app. It does not reroute, it gives inaccurate instructions (e.g. a (left) u-turn instead of steep right or right turns a few meters before an unannounced left turn etc.), stops navigation suddenly etc.
- The combination of voice output and the BLE display is very useful. Also the displays gives confidence in current navigation so if you still want to use your mobile as main navigation system you at least can switch off the display and save energy while cycling a longer distance straight.
I'll update the osmand issue https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/16892 with some more detailed feature description based on my experience with komooot BLE connect.
Thanks for sharing your experience, Ian.
In many cases the next navigation instruction after the current one would be needed to make instruction unambigious.
I also thought it would be helpful 💡 But found no way to get it from OsmAnd.