What happens in Kurviger Pro App when you go off route?

[Chris Green]

I have recently bought Kurviger Pro and have just been on my first
ride using it. It works well.


However, I have a question, what happens when you go off route?
What's the easiest way to get back to the route?-

I had to go off route a couple of times (diversions, closed roads
etc.) and there are symbols that appear on the map but I'm not sure
what they mean. Are they explained anywhere?

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Chris Green

[Emux]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for using Kurviger and the question!

That depends if you have Rerouting enabled in Navigation settings.

- If Rerouting is enabled and go off route, then app will try to calculate a new route (requires internet) after a while.
If for whatever reason route calculation doesn't succeed, then it'll try some time later again and again.

- If rerouting is not enabled, then nothing happens, you can go around and resume on the route anywhere and anytime later!

There is an indicator at screen top for when being off route and navigation panels show the relevant information when being on route.

In the future we'll add a real time indicator when being off route, to guide you back to nearest route point. :)

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Emux

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 09:53:09AM +0300, Emux wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> Thanks for using Kurviger and the question!
> That depends if you have Rerouting enabled in Navigation settings.
> - If Rerouting is enabled and go off route, then app will try to
> calculate a new route (requires internet) after a while.

Ah, OK, I hadn't spotted that setting. I think it's set (to try to
reroute) by default though.

> If for whatever reason route calculation doesn't succeed, then it'll
> try some time later again and again.

I think I'm seeing this happen! :-) I'm using a mobile phone wiuth
no SIM card in it as my 'bike SatNav so it will never have an internet
connection. Why does it need an internet connection to re-route?

> - If rerouting is not enabled, then nothing happens, you can go around
> and resume on the route anywhere and anytime later!

OK

> There is an indicator at screen top for when being off route and
> navigation panels show the relevant information when being on route.
> In the future we'll add a real time indicator when being off route, to
> guide you back to nearest route point. :)
>

Yes, more 'transparent' re-routing would be good.

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Chris Green

[Emux]

Hi Chris,

> Why does it need an internet connection to re-route?

Currently the routing is performed on the server, so needs an online connection.
In the future we could offer offline routing. :)

For anyone interested:
Routing is not a trivial process and routing data occupy a substantial amount of storage, similar to offline map data.
e.g. see some large countries size in our offline maps server and can do the maths for routing across countries. :)

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Emux

[Mario]

Am Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2018 21:49:27 UTC+2 schrieb Chris Green:

I'm using a mobile phone wiuth
no SIM card in it as my 'bike SatNav so it will never have an internet
connection.

I'm also using an older smartphone (Moto G 3rd Gen) without an own SIM card on my bike. But additionaly I always have my "usual" smartphone with me (which of course has a SIM card and data connection). Both phones are connected via bluetooth so the Moto G is able to use the data connection if bluetooth tethering is enabled on my other phone. Works very well and doesn't consume too much battery power (like a mobile WLAN hotspot would do).

[Emux]

Thanks Mario for the idea, very interesting workaround!

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Emux

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 03:21:18PM -0700, 'Mario' via Kurviger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2018 21:49:27 UTC+2 schrieb Chris Green:
>
> I'm using a mobile phone wiuth
> no SIM card in it as my 'bike SatNav so it will never have an
> internet
> connection.
>
> I'm also using an older smartphone (Moto G 3rd Gen) without an own SIM
> card on my bike. But additionaly I always have my "usual" smartphone
> with me (which of course has a SIM card and data connection). Both

*Very* similar to me! :-) My 'on the bike' satnav phone is a Moto E
and my 'actual' phone is a Moto G (I think it's first generation, I'm
not very up to date!).

> phones are connected via bluetooth so the Moto G is able to use the
> data connection if bluetooth tethering is enabled on my other phone.
> Works very well and doesn't consume too much battery power (like a
> mobile WLAN hotspot would do).
>

That might work for me too, thanks for the idea.

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Chris Green