compass on 8.3 TT Go 520

Steven0161 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 48

Hi

I liked the idea of the compass on previous versions I had the pointer facing the direction of travel, I have noticed on the new version that the arrow is pointing the direction I am travelling from.....I cant find the option in the settings has another stripped down setting Rolling Eyes

cheers

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject:

When travelling North or South which way does it point?

Steven0161 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 48

carl_the_cobbler · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 22, 2007 Posts: 251

The pointer apparently always points North, and that is all it will do, sadly!!

Cheers

Carl

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject:

Steven0161 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 48

carl_the_cobbler · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 22, 2007 Posts: 251

What I do to get round it (sort of) is to display the heading in the little blue box, 0(360) is N, 90 is E, 180 is S, and 270 is W!!

I still have the pointer on as well, just need to reverse it, to know your direction.

I knew I would need my Maths from school one day!! Wahey!

Still to use Mr. Pythagoras little idea though

Cheers

Carl

dhn · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:04 am Post subject:

The functionality of the v7 compass has essentially been returned in v8.3 using the status bar option of showing direction. You will now see the direction you are driving, both in letters (NW, E, etc.) and degrees.

Mind you, you may have to delete an existing choice on the status bar to get the direction to show. I removed 'time to arrival' and kept current time and time of arrival. I can still do the math in my head. Cool

Sorry....post above said essentially the same thing. Embarassed

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Zebb · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 28, 2008 Posts: 55

What I liked about the old compass was you could see how far away you were from your destination, shown in direct distance in the centre of the compass. If you were looking for a parking space for example and you could find one, you knew how far it was to walk from there.

mattcu · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 11, 2008 Posts: 25

Agree with Zebb (a technique I've used myself) and sadly have to say I disagree with dhn. The compass functionality has not been fully restored just yet, although TT are moving in the right direction at least. Maybe there was a lot more functionality in the old compass than some people are aware. People used it in different ways, depending on whether they had their maps in Track Up or North Up mode, which text fields they had selected on the status bar, etc.

alanji · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject:

TuppyTrucker · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject:

GerryC · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

You can also see it from the other direction. They sell an easy-to-use bit of kit that works out of the box. It's only when you want to do extra things like updating maps, taking a FULL backup etc that people start having problems. You have to remember that most users who get as far as using forums are the ones who are likely to do the extra things. Smile

By the way, my suggestion that they bring back the old compass has been passed to the black hole they call "2nd line support". Evil or Very Mad

Has anyone EVER had a reply from that team?

PS I was a 2nd line engineer for 10 years who was expected to speak to customers every day.
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dhn · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject:

Geez......

The next thing you'll expect is that TT actually TESTS the software prior to release ... Rolling Eyes

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