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It's just like Google maps an all others.
Zoom out in Google Earth until you see the globe, do you still expect to see all minor roads ?
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28th November 2019, 11:00 PM #1Junior Member
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minor roads visible at lower zoom levels?
I'm using iGo Primo on a 10 inch tablet, and i notice that in 2d mode, the roads displayed on the screen depends on the zoom level and the road importance.
For example, let say this is 100km zoom level. On the map we see highways, international/european and national roads:
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At a higher zoom level, let say 1km, we see also other minor roads:
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What i must change in order to see the minor roads even at lower zoom levels?
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28th November 2019, 11:46 PM #2GPSPower Friend
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29th November 2019, 09:11 AM #3Junior Member
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I don't wanna see the minor roads at the globe level! But at the zoom levels at which are useful in choosing the best route, especially in the remote areas where are only off-road tracks (for example). iGo has great detailed maps, very good routing algorithms, but is difficult to make navigation decisions when you don't see all the alternatives...
In this moment, for planning a route, i use Locus Maps with maps from openandromaps.org. For example, the same area form above looks like this:
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Unfortunately, Locus Maps has poor routing capabilities, at least for the offline mode....
I'm still searching a solution for the mentioned problem....
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29th November 2019, 09:33 AM #4iGO Enthusiast
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Your "problem" has no logic.
When choosing a route, the differences are reduced to only a few places, and certainly not visible at high zoom.
Here you are not looking for roads as a pedestrian, but for a vehicle.
LocusMap is primarily intended for leisure activities.
If you want to choose your own roads, not the shortest/fastest/ best ones, then you have to plan carefully and spent much more time.
Igo will not take you to the roads of poor quality unless you insist on it. Etc etc...
You actually want to use iGO to travel outside standard routes.
For the purpose you want, you will need to combine both applications.
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29th November 2019, 10:11 AM #5Junior Member
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Why to use 2 apps? If both have the same roads on the map? Only because iGo don't show them at the zoom level that i want?
For me, is not a problem spending more time for planning a route, but i want to find a way to do'it on iGo...
I understand that this days, the navigation apps are for lazy people that only choose the destination and let the software do the rest. And then spend countless hours on traffics jams only because they don't wanna (or know) to search themselves alternative routes and hope that the app will do even that for them.
But i'm an... "old style" navigation apps user, and, sometimes, i wanna "take the matters on my own hands"...
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29th November 2019, 10:13 AM #6iGO Enthusiast
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Again: differences are certainly not visible at high zoom. Neither can be seen on the 24 "screen, let alone on the smaller ones. Not only in the iGO.
Moreover, iGO maps does not contain small paths, small roads, etc.
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29th November 2019, 10:26 AM #7Junior Member
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Again: the roads are there. But you see them only at higher zoom levels. And if i choose a point on that road, iGo will find a route to that point. This is not the problem. The problem is to "manually" change the route, no mater the reason i wanna to do that....
I'm not the only one with this problem, this i a "review' for the Tracks4Africa (igo Nextgen), but the idea is the same...
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29th November 2019, 10:49 AM #8iGO Enthusiast
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Good luck with that
You still observe this as a pedestrian.
If you are on the highway, there is no diversion and choosing an other road for for tens of miles...
Don't compare this to Africa, compare it to the German for example.
The job of navigation is to get you where you need in the easiest/fastest way.
Too much detail on the screen extremely annoying.
Your job is to plan a trip before you embark on it. You can do it in great detail, and with iGO it is very easy to add intermediate points/modify route.
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