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Speed cameras POI
I would love to see speed camera warnings and audio warnings where it's possible. I have found a blog with guys who daily update POI lists with stationary speed cameras in Croatia and Slovenia. I wish this could be added to our maps.
BLOG LINK WITH POI FILES: http://snecer-poi.blogspot.com/2015/08/hrvaska-poi-2015.html
There is a way to imporrt custom POIs manually and add proximity warnings for them. Have a look at tutorial video, section ‘Custom POI Import’. https://scenicapp.space/blog/knowledge-base/scenic-detailed-tutorial-video/
I’m also looking into possibilities to add speed camera support out of the box, but can’t say anything definite about it yet, and will be, if at all, for next motorcycle season.
Thanks for your instructions and help! I just imported all the locations as POI, plus all the Passknacker POI for the countries that I visit from time to time. This will bring my Scenic experience to a whole new level. Great!
The only major feature I'm missing is the camera advance warnings.
I would recommend using the pocketgpsworld.com database as the most advanced and reliable - paid subscription but the fee is really small. Speed limits are also included in the database.
In many countries (like the UK) it is 100% legal to use GPS cameras database and to warn in advance - the idea to reduce speed in a dangerous zone but not to punish people (at least in the UK), so camera warnings are "lifesavers".
I'm riding a very powerful bike (electric Energica Eva Ribelle) and this feature will be really helpful.
@shapa I’m trying to add the UK safety cameras. I know your comment is a year old but do you remember which gpx file you chose? There seem to be loads to choose from and it’s not obvious which one will work with scenic?
@shack - https://www.pocketgpsworld.com
You can download GPX from there.
When using Scenic while navigating a Route on my Motorcycle, the most important deficiency I experience is that there is no active-map (on-the-fly) reporting such as what is seen in my personal favorite (non-motorcycle-specific) navigation app - WAZE.
In my neck of the woods here in Florida, the biggest threat to my enjoying a ride are Police who are intent at trying to dish out as many speeding tickets as possible. WAZE serves to act kind of like my personal radar detector and (often) successfully alerts me to Police presence.
I would be willing to sub$cribe to this sort of "advanced" feature in Scenic if it were made available to me. As it stands, I often switch over to WAZE while actively navigating a Route in Scenic. In this way the screen shows WAZE while Scenic continues to provide me with audible voice prompts to keep me on track. I wish I could have my cake and eat it too!
Beyond Police locations I also enjoy seeing speed-reduction live on WAZE - to help me avoid traffic.
Thanks for listening!
I'm an avid WAZE user myself in the car, so I fully understand the requests 🙂
Ultimately Scenic 3 will add traffic support, but not from the beginning.
Regarding the reporting function... there's two reasons why I can't / won't implement that at this point:
1. Having a real time reporting system like this requires a vast network of users worldwide that constantly use the app and report and update incidents (police, pot hole, accidents, etc.). Although Scenic is quite heavily used in the motorcycling community by no means can it compare to Waze. Another option would be to tap in such a report database of another app, but as far as I know there is no publicly available wordwide database of those real time reports.
2. Safety reasons: in the car it's relatively easy to tap on the screen and report something etc), but on the motorcycle it's more difficult and it can have a lot bigger consequences should this go wrong.
Fixed safety camera's is a different topic. Currently you can load those as a Custom POI Group (see that section in the tutorial video) and in Scenic 3 there will be a built in feature for that in the future.
Hope this helps/explains. If not or if you have other questions please let me know. Happy to help.
Best regards and ride safe,
Guido
Perhaps Waze would be willing to sell you the active-police-presence functionality (feature) and Scenic users could subscribe to get that functionality? I would not want to be able to report nor confirm the presence of police etc while using Scenic.
Waze does not have a public API for that. I actually was in contact with them, maybe 2 years ago, but they do not make their data available to others (well, except Google since it's owned by Google 🙂).