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Is it possible to display traffic lights on the map on Zumo XT? Similar to how Google maps on my phone have it.

No.

The instructions for the XT2 will sometimes say 'Turn left at the traffic light'. I don't recall whether or not the XT1 does that.

I don't think that they are particularly useful. I was in the car yesterday trying to get to a location in Leeds city centre. Yorkshire, UK. I know two routes through Leeds. I have never had to Navigate to a particular location. I usually park outside and walk.

The car satnav marks traffic lights. Ooh, that is useful, I thought. No it wasn't. The city centre is changing - like many city centres they are doing things to get rid of cars and bring back the shoppers. Traffic lights have been taken down, new traffic lights have been installed, complete major routes no longer exist. Which is great. But the satnav maps didn't know this and other features became more important. I'll list some.

• Ability of the satnav to know my exact position when surrounded by tall buildings.
• Consistency in the display of speed / scale as junctions approach.
• Navigating to my exact location
• Ability to recognise road closures.

The car let me down on all of the above, but it showed traffic lights which weren't there.

This car map has not had any map updates since I bought it 2 years ago.
Traffic lights incorrectly plotted.
For a while I was traveling on one of two parallel roads. The car satnav had me plotted in between them. The route had abandoned me - it was over to my left - not on the road I was traveling. Basically, it didn't know exactly where I was.

I have seen similar behaviour on my early Zumos - the 550 and 660, But never with the 590, 595, XT and XT2. Somehow, the later Zumos seem to cope with poor satellite signal. The junction on the map is arrived bat a speed consistent with that of the car - it doesn't seem to arrive faster or slower on the map than the speed of the car. Side roads are conistently shown - unlike the car which shows some, but not others.

I like the Zumos. It takes a while to get used to their new behaviour of getting you onto faster roads. Each new one seems to have been released too early. but its basic operation in following a fixed route and giving instructions well in advance is spot on.
I've never thought - I wish it marked traffic lights.

And having seen how the car behaved in Leeds - I'm glad that it doesn't. I've not used google map navigation in the car in similar circumstances. Google maps relies on a good phone signal, which it would have had in Leeds Centre, but we have many dead zones in the places I like to ride, so I don't bother.

jfheath wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 7:06 am No.

The instructions for the XT2 will sometimes say 'Turn left at the traffic light'. I don't recall whether or not the XT1 does that.

The XT instructions do sometimes reference turning at traffic lights.

honza wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 2:57 am Is it possible to display traffic lights on the map on Zumo XT? Similar to how Google maps on my phone have it.

not sure if the XT displays traffic lights on the XT map screen, i've not ever seen that on my XT, maybe the XT will audio bluetoth traffic lights but visually showning it on the XT screen i don't think it does

The first thing to ask. Does the selected map have that info? For CN Europe the answer is no. I have seen maps created from OpenStreetMap that do have traffic lights, and they show up on the XT(2) (I think so, but will check that later). But they play no role in routing.

EDIT: No, they dont show up on the XT.

Dont have acces to my XT, but here is a sample from BaseCamp:
Some location with the CN map: