Feature Request: New numeric field - Distance to next POI

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LKerch

• September 27, 2022 19:52
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Summary: A numeric field that shows the distance to the next POI while riding a route.

Details: I typically ride old familiar routes where, in the past before I tried routes and turn-by-turn prompts, I would try to remember to hit the lap button when starting a long segment.  Because I know the length of each segment, it gave me a sense of exactly how far along I was on each bit.  It's not critical information, but it helped to satisfy my inner data nerd.

The turn-by-turn distance to next turn is handy but it doesn't always match up to what I consider a segment of my route. For example, a major intersection where I'm not making a turn. And some routes turn several times during a segment.

Nav to POI is also handy, but the route it picks doesn't always match the route I am riding.  Plus it's not practical to use if my route has several POI's.

Just to be clear, this is a simple data field and not a new map display or turn by turn feature.

We already have "distance to end of route".  This would be like that, only better.

 

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  Ali

  • September 28, 2022 09:48

  Hi Lars, great suggestion. We have developed not the exact but a similar implementation coming up in the next update, where any Pins along your route will now appear in your Cue sheet, making it easy to see how far you are from that POIs.

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  LKerch

  • September 28, 2022 13:05

  Thanks, Ali!  I always look forward to Thursday updates.  I would still like to keep the request for a single field on the list as it would be very helpful to have it available for a quick glance on my main Time-Distance-Speed page.

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  Norman

  • June 02, 2023 05:10

  I need this feature too for Randonneuring, so I know how far to the next resupply

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  Stanley Sun

  • August 11, 2023 14:40
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  While this has been marked Answered, I don't think the current cue sheet implementation fills this request — we all want to see the Distance Remaining to POI from current location along the route, but the cue sheet only shows the POI distance from previous cue.

  I made a new request for distance remaining to POI in the cue sheet, which perhaps would also include a data field since Distance Remaining as shown at the bottom of the cue sheet is also a data field you can have on your data pages:

  https://support.hammerhead.io/hc/en-us/community/posts/17848598976539-Request-Cue-Sheet-with-Distance-Remaining-to-Cues-POI

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  Philip Waldman

  • May 08, 2025 14:03

  I'd very much like to see this added as a data field please.  I've recently been riding some very long supported events and knowing how far it is to the next feed stop would help me on the ride. 

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  timklge

  • May 09, 2025 08:26

  I've added this feature as part of my routegraph extension: https://github.com/timklge/karoo-routegraph

  

  In addition to the numerical fields, it adds an alternate elevation profile that features POIs and climbs. It's supposed to be a temporary solution until Hammerhead improves the native POI features.

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  Philip Waldman

  • May 09, 2025 14:51

  Thanks timklge for the post.  I do have your extension on my hammerhead, but I often don;t use it because of the need for an active internet connection.  I don't have a SIM in my Karoo and on my long events I am trying to conserve battery on my phone and karoo, so don't hotspot...  But when I do your extension works well.

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