Quote from Guido on 30.06.2020, 05:33

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://scenic.app/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.

Quote from Marko Lorenzo on 02.07.2020, 08:45

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!

 

Quote from Shapa on 16.07.2020, 09:49

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.

Quote from Shack on 24.04.2021, 14:44

@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?

Quote from Shapa on 07.06.2021, 14:49

@shack - https://www.pocketgpsworld.com

You can download GPX from there.

Quote from Schuitema on 08.06.2021, 10:58

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!

Quote from Guido on 08.06.2021, 12:05

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

Quote from Schuitema on 08.06.2021, 12:16

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.

Quote from Guido on 08.06.2021, 12:19

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 🙂).

Quote from Shapa on 11.06.2021, 15:52

@guidomm

One thing that would be nice to improve - the POI name adjustable pronunciation. For example, the GPX POI data files I'm using (from the pocketgpsworld) - the POI name is

<name>30-pM-112821</name>

When the App is saying "30 pM oneonetwo..." - obviously, it's distracting 🙂

Ideally:
To be able to adjust how many letters to read, i.e. to add a setting "to ignore dash / read only first 4 letters", so it will be "30pM"

I can share a sample GPX file (UK cameras, for example).

Additionally, it could be useful not to make any voice prompt but some alert signal (aka bell / warning sound / etc, could be uploaded by a user).

Quote from Guido on 11.06.2021, 17:28

Hmmm… I’m not sure I feel comfortable in implementing such a feature. After all there are many sources that is being imported from, each with different formats and such. In this case I think a better solution would be to change the names before importing with some kind of  powerful text editor. 

Replacing the verbal announcement with a kind of beep is a better, more robust solution. I will add that to the list for Scenic 3. L

Quote from Kanabel on 27.08.2021, 12:46

Hi Guys,

Based on your experience, what's the best place to download POI files with Speed Trap Camera ?

I'm looking more specifically for:

• Canada
• USA
• Europe
  • Belgium
  • France
  • Luxembourg
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Hungary
  • Roumania
  • Solvakie
  • Poland
  • Czechia

I'm OK with paying website.

Thanks,

Quote from theigi on 31.12.2021, 11:52

Guido, das Problem ist bei den custom poi, wenn zu groß oder zu viele in der App sind, das die App abstürzt und sich nicht mehr starten lässt.

einzig ein löschen und eine Neuinstallation hilft dann.

getestet hab ich mit einer kompletten Europa.gpx Größe 4,2 mb mit gefahrenstellen (zu groß - App stürzt ab und öffnet nicht mehr - Neuinstallation…)

oder aber auch mit einzelnen kleineren files, zb mit poi’s verschiedenster Kategorien

sobald aber gesamt mehr als 22000 poi’s, egal wo auf der Welt in der App sind, stürzt sie ab, wenn man sie anzeigen möchte (nur eine Neuinstallation der App hilft, aber vor aktivieren der poi’s unbedingt diese löschen und eben weniger installieren)

 

auch wenn man eine Liste mit zu vielen kleineren Tracks anzeigen möchte, funktioniert dies nicht und hat zur Abhilfe nur eine Neuinstallation der App zur Folge

 

desweiteren kann man beim iPad nicht mehrere poi’s bzw alle gleichzeitig zum Import wählen(der aktuellen gpx), beim iPhone funktioniert es problemlos

Quote from vonDrack on 04.02.2022, 12:40

Quote from Kanabel on 27.08.2021, 12:46

Hi Guys,

Based on your experience, what's the best place to download POI files with Speed Trap Camera ?

I'm looking more specifically for:

• Canada
• USA
• Europe
  • Belgium
  • France
  • Luxembourg
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Hungary
  • Roumania
  • Solvakie
  • Poland
  • Czechia

I'm OK with paying website.

Thanks,

try this link, it works: https://www.poi-radary.eu/

 

Quote from Iom_dave on 18.04.2022, 08:01

Hi,

i have downloaded the uk speed cameras as suggested by shappa from https://www.pocketgpsworld.com, but now having issues with scenic shutting itself down unless the display poi is switched off.  Also if I try to go into locations/my poi groups, scenic shuts itself down.

Help please, as I love scenic, but I can longer use it, as it keeps shutting itself down!!!

Quote from Shapa on 18.04.2022, 08:12

Actually it was a problem with the first few releases (v3), but latest updates - I'm not seeing a problem anymore, the app is not crashing when I'm enabling cameras POI. But I'm only using UK area, it could be a problem with a bigger country / more cameras...

Quote from Guido on 18.04.2022, 08:18

@iom_dave could you contact me through email (‘email me’ button at bottom of help page).
It crashing when you open locations > POI groups might indicate another problem (something wrong with the import) as the one Shapa was referring to.

Mention your Scenic nickname. I’ll have to probably reset your password to login with your account and see what’s going on.

 

 

Quote from fm_scenic on 26.05.2022, 13:54

Hi Guido, i tried to install POIs via website Speed Camera Database for navigation (poi-radary.eu). The speed cameras from Austria, Slovenia and Spain were shown in scenic after installing. France and Italy not. It seems that the files for France and Italy are "empty". Can you please doublecheck. If so, do you know an alternative website where I can download speed cameras. Many thanks in advance.

Quote from theigi on 26.05.2022, 19:25

@fm_scenic

contact poi-radary.eu it’s not a scenic problem

alternate poi eg. https://www.scdb.info or google