Zumo XT - Road Closures
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:18 pm
This little essay came about as a result of me hi-jacking a different thread. The OP was concerned about inaccurate timing on his Zumo 550. The suggestion that inaccurate timing can also be due to the alteration of a route by the Zumo with a Traffic link established to a smartphone. When this happens with a road closure, the XT says that it has recalculated a route, but it doesn't tell you where, and it doesn't plot the road closure. Nevertheless there are some useful tools ont he XT that help you to locate such closures.
This doesn't relate to the 550, but it does relate to the 595 and probably to the 590 - both using the smartphone link rather than the Drive link. I will need to switch my 595 to being a 590 to check out how similar it is - but I remember using it on my 590 before I got the XT.
The display when it spots the road closure very rapidly disappears, and the route ahead is now altered to get around the closure and return as quickly as possible to the original route. So on the new root (including the big loop to the right at the top of the map - there are no traffic reports.
I have seen road closure signs on plotted routes, but I could not get them to appear today. But I did notice that the XT only looks ahead to the next Via Point. Maybe they appear for sections with closures after the next Via Point.
If you stop navigating and look at the map with your current location at the centre - then the same message shows up.
And if you then tap on the map to pan around or zoom out and in, the location of the road works can be found.
And tapping the red circle gives more information
If you have the Live Traffic widget displayed on the right of the landscape screen, you can tap that.
Note that we now have the 3 bar menu in the top left. THis gives access to two other displays. Incidents and Legend.
Incidents looks like this.
And then click on the A682 Incidents
Clicking on the actual road closure often marks the beginning and end of the closure.
Note that if trying this at home, you may need to turn the GPS off, and set your position close to the 'incident'. Drive picks up the closest incidnets faster than the more remote ones. At some point it will stop looking. You need to give the data time to be collected and transferred, which can take a few minutes after turning the satnav on. Not a problem when riding, but very noticeable when sitting at a desk waiting for things to happen.
I've just been for lunch. Between taking the screen shots, and coming back an hour later, the road closure has been cleared ! I know that they were there yesterday.
Zooming out on the maps reveals more issues on nearby roads.
And slow traffic can be detected on the move by track like colours superimposed ont he magenta route.
This doesn't relate to the 550, but it does relate to the 595 and probably to the 590 - both using the smartphone link rather than the Drive link. I will need to switch my 595 to being a 590 to check out how similar it is - but I remember using it on my 590 before I got the XT.
The display when it spots the road closure very rapidly disappears, and the route ahead is now altered to get around the closure and return as quickly as possible to the original route. So on the new root (including the big loop to the right at the top of the map - there are no traffic reports.
I have seen road closure signs on plotted routes, but I could not get them to appear today. But I did notice that the XT only looks ahead to the next Via Point. Maybe they appear for sections with closures after the next Via Point.
If you stop navigating and look at the map with your current location at the centre - then the same message shows up.
And if you then tap on the map to pan around or zoom out and in, the location of the road works can be found.
And tapping the red circle gives more information
If you have the Live Traffic widget displayed on the right of the landscape screen, you can tap that.
Note that we now have the 3 bar menu in the top left. THis gives access to two other displays. Incidents and Legend.
Incidents looks like this.
And then click on the A682 Incidents
Clicking on the actual road closure often marks the beginning and end of the closure.
Note that if trying this at home, you may need to turn the GPS off, and set your position close to the 'incident'. Drive picks up the closest incidnets faster than the more remote ones. At some point it will stop looking. You need to give the data time to be collected and transferred, which can take a few minutes after turning the satnav on. Not a problem when riding, but very noticeable when sitting at a desk waiting for things to happen.
I've just been for lunch. Between taking the screen shots, and coming back an hour later, the road closure has been cleared ! I know that they were there yesterday.
Zooming out on the maps reveals more issues on nearby roads.
And slow traffic can be detected on the move by track like colours superimposed ont he magenta route.