Bug: Navigation cues break north-is-up map orientation
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In the latest software version, it seems to me that even though north-is-up has been selected, display of (some?) navigation cues change the orientation to forward-is-up but only for as long as the cue is shown, after which the map stays turned whichever way it was when the cue disappeared (or something like that). The end result is that the map can point any which way and there is not even a compass arrow on screen to alert you to the fact that north is indeed no longer pointing upwards. Switching the new auto map function on or off did not seem to make any difference. Pressing the arrow/pointer thingy and then the compass arrow did bring the orientation back to normal north-is-up, but only until the next turn...
Extremely confusing until I understood what was going on, and I just ended up removing the route and am unlikely to use routes at all until this has been fixed. (While you’re at it, how about a default orientation toggle in settings? I for one have no use for the forward-is-up orientation in any situation in the first place.)
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Correction: this only happens when the new auto map function is active (looks like I turned the auto cue function off instead after first discovering this).
Tested it a bit more and here’s how it went. Starting with north-is-up and a demo route where the long tail points north and a scale a step or two bigger than I’d normally use to show the whole route:
Hello, what’s this:
(the route makes a loop and then continues straight ahead so the yellow line seemingly branching off was intentional)
After that one and one more 90-degree right turn, the map looked like this; back to original scale but north is 160–170 degrees off:
And another turn coming up:
And after two more turns (arrow points in the correct direction of travel at least in this one):
And after some more turns:
Anyway, turns out I actually like the auto zoom (I think I even suggested it at some point earlier), and I can live with the forward-is-up orientation when the auto zoom and the turn cue are active, but please restore the orientation together with the scale when the auto map thing ends. (Plus at least I can keep using the route function as before until this is fixed as long as I keep the auto map function turned off.)
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Did a few more tests again with the latest firmware, bug still there. Looks like it sets map orientation every time based on direction of travel at the moment the cue pops up on the screen and then just leaves it that way (not following the direction of travel either while in the closeup zoom mode) until the next cue. No difference whether already on the map screen or coming from a different data page.
If you do switch the map orientation for the duration of the automap cue, then please at least be consistent and make it forward-is-up for the entire time, and then switch back to the original orientation and magnification. As it is, depending on the road layout before the turn, the map could basically be pointing in any direction at the point of the turn, never mind a series of turns right next to each other.
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