Nokia Drive + is a great application, but does anybody else get annoyed by the fact that it only ever offers you one route which you can neither change nor see the itinerary of?
Yes, there are various options to turn off various types of road, and you can select between Fastest, Shortest or Balanced (whatever that means), but in my case none of that seems to make a difference. Whichever option I choose, the app never seems to pick the route that I would have taken if I was doing the planning...
...I never thought this would be an issue to me until this past 2 weeks, when on a few occasions I've really had to fight the route planner to get it to accept the way I want to go.
The latest example was a trip to London I took recently - ordinarily I wouldn't drive, so whilst I have a pretty good idea of where everything is, I'm hopeless if you ask me for driving directions. As a result, I spent a while considering options on Google Maps before setting off, and decided the best route would be M40 > M25 > M11 > North Circular. This was neither Google nor Nokia's first choice of route (both preferring, for some sadistic reason, to send me right through the middle of central London).
Problems therefore started when I ended up having to park in a totally different place to my actual destination. On the way home, not knowing what the way back to the way I came was, I was stuck with Drive+ and it's torturous desire to take me past every london landmark before letting me go home. I should perhaps point out that at 11pm in the evening, paper maps aren't readily available, and as a result it took me 45 minutes longer to get home than if Nokia had just taken me the shortest way to the motorway instead of right through the city.
This could all have been avoided if there was just a simple option which calculated 2 or 3 routes and asked which one I'd prefer to take - even if it appears longer/slower/less 'balanced' a human with a vague knowledge of the area is likely to make a better decision than a computer with a (seemingly pretty bad) routing algorithm.
Alternatively, PLEASE Nokia set your routing algorythm to take me to the motorway/A-road network as quickly as possible - the British countryside is beautiful, but I have places to be...
Yes, there are various options to turn off various types of road, and you can select between Fastest, Shortest or Balanced (whatever that means), but in my case none of that seems to make a difference. Whichever option I choose, the app never seems to pick the route that I would have taken if I was doing the planning...
...I never thought this would be an issue to me until this past 2 weeks, when on a few occasions I've really had to fight the route planner to get it to accept the way I want to go.
The latest example was a trip to London I took recently - ordinarily I wouldn't drive, so whilst I have a pretty good idea of where everything is, I'm hopeless if you ask me for driving directions. As a result, I spent a while considering options on Google Maps before setting off, and decided the best route would be M40 > M25 > M11 > North Circular. This was neither Google nor Nokia's first choice of route (both preferring, for some sadistic reason, to send me right through the middle of central London).
Problems therefore started when I ended up having to park in a totally different place to my actual destination. On the way home, not knowing what the way back to the way I came was, I was stuck with Drive+ and it's torturous desire to take me past every london landmark before letting me go home. I should perhaps point out that at 11pm in the evening, paper maps aren't readily available, and as a result it took me 45 minutes longer to get home than if Nokia had just taken me the shortest way to the motorway instead of right through the city.
This could all have been avoided if there was just a simple option which calculated 2 or 3 routes and asked which one I'd prefer to take - even if it appears longer/slower/less 'balanced' a human with a vague knowledge of the area is likely to make a better decision than a computer with a (seemingly pretty bad) routing algorithm.
Alternatively, PLEASE Nokia set your routing algorythm to take me to the motorway/A-road network as quickly as possible - the British countryside is beautiful, but I have places to be...