[rrawer]

High Contrast Mode
I was riding following a Track on the Road today, and really had a hard time identifying other roads but the track (which I marked in bright red). It is really hard to identify roads during riding, especially when the sun comes out (I am using a Samsung with about 800nits, so the display is ok). For example, it’s really hard to identify roads in a rural area, In General roads just don’t stick out enough…

What would really help is:
1) a high contrast mode, where roads stick out much better.
2) More differentiation between road types (not only offroad types, and not only major roads/highways) for example to differentiate country/rural roads from other roads in the city (easier to find your way around in the suburbs/villages)

[johnkeel]

rrawer wrote:

High Contrast Mode I was riding following a Track on the Road today, and really had a hard time identifying other roads but the track (which I marked in bright red). It is really hard to identify roads during riding, especially when the sun comes out (I am using a Samsung with about 800nits, so the display is ok). For example, it’s really hard to identify roads in a rural area, In General roads just don’t stick out enough… What would really help is: 1) a high contrast mode, where roads stick out much better. 2) More differentiation between road types (not only offroad types, and not only major roads/highways) for example to differentiate country/rural roads from other roads in the city (easier to find your way around in the suburbs/villages)

Which map style did you use? The TOPO style was designed with that in mind.

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[rrawer]

That is certainly correct, however, that mode puts a very strong emphasis on non-sealed tracks. For on-road navigation this is even more confusing (keep in mind, here in southern Germany most non-sealed roads are prohibited to be used by ordinary vehicles, so unfortunately you can’t use them for navigation…) so a third mode woudl help (I’d personally would not keep the currnet “low-contrast” view at all, because in an urban region you can hardly identify any of the smaller roads once you’re riding the bike because of the lack of contrast)

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