CarPlay App Request
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Hi Erik,
Thank you for your post/feature request.
Before filing this feature request, more details would be appreciated. For example in terms of workflow and benefit, we would like to know how the addition of this feature improves your workflow and app experience.
This helps to ensure that if this feature is added to the app, it is as you expected to look and engage with.
Please let me know and if you have any other questions.
Regards
Stephan
Avenza Support
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Hello
I would also like to see this feature. It would benefit myself, and the staff in my office.The largest benefit would be safety. Our staff use the app with custom made Maps that show where our operations are, and are constantly needing to review them while on the road and while navigating to the sites. Having the ability to display the map within your vehicles, dashboard would be much safer than having a tablet mounted.
Second benefit would be increasing productivity as it would allow our operators to navigate using the Maps within the vehicles seamlessly
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Same request for CarPlay integration. I would like to use Avenza maps (Benchmark in particular) on a motorcycle. The vibration of a handlebar mount kills the anti-vibration mechanism in iPhone cameras, so I have an CarPlay display that I attach to the bike, keeping the expensive phone in my pocket. This works well with Google Maps and Gaia GPS, but I would prefer to use Benchmark on Avenza.
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Hello. Supporting the request. Modern vehicles commonly have a screen with connectivity with Carplay. Having access to Avenza on the vehicle’s screen through Carplay would be a logical and significant improvement for Avenza. For info, I mostly use Avenza when driving through remote parts of Australia, using dowloaded topo maps (or other) where no other detailed mapping is available. Thanks Avenza for a very useful product.
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I am enthusiastically supporting this feature request. CarPlay and Android Auto devices are starting to become widely available for motorcycles and other backcountry vehicles (see Carpuride, PoDoFo and others). OnX Maps and GaiaGPS are supporting this technology, which is a gamechanger for motorized backcountry travelers. The use case is that the apps on a multifunction device like an iPhone or Android Phone are much more feature-rich than single-function devices like Garmin Zumo, etc. But phones are typically delicate, hard to read in direct sunlight, and too small for live tracking while traveling. Having the phone apps for navigation like Avenza viewable on a Carplay or Android Auto display device is soon going to be widely expected.
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I work for for the BC Wildfire service and I would say that 95% of our field staff use Avenza. Navigating to remote areas of BC to and route planing all over the province are improved significantly by the use of this app. Having the app be integrated with a CarPlay capability would be a huge advantage. There are definitely safety benefits that would come with this allowing staff to navigate more seamlessly to remote areas using custom maps and keeping their eyes on the road. It may also improve response time to emerging incidents, where time matters in getting to new fires quickly.
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I work at a remote exploration camp in Western Australia. Everyone here uses Avenzamaps - on their phones. Mostly with having a second person in the car to assist navigation. It would be much more convenient and safer if this could be cast onto the screen in the car via CarPlay or Android. Other mapping apps can do this and it appears a major deficit that Avenzamaps cannot.
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I am enthusiastically supporting this feature request. CarPlay and Android Auto devices are starting to become widely available. The use case is that the apps on a multifunction device like an iPhone or Android Phone are much more feature-rich than single-function devices like Garmin Zumo. But phones are typically delicate. Having the phone apps for navigation like Avenza viewable on a Carplay or Android Auto display device is soon going to be widely expected. Great software, but I’d love to be able to use it through the car screen, particularly given the laws around mobile phone use while driving.
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Gday Avenza maps I would also like to be able to use Avenza maps through apple carplay. I live and work here in Australia in remote rural areas and have to import different maps to Avenza and use my iPad to be able to view them. It would be great to be able to use the maps on the head unit in my new Landcruiser 70 series that supports apple car play. I use maps from the Australian department of industries rural fire brigade department and national parks and forestry and emergency services to be able to pin point exactly where I am in the national parks and state forests so if there is a fire or flood or any other emergency I can use the maps to be able to find another way out of the danger. If for some reason my iPad isn’t working or broken I know while my vehicle is still running I have the maps in apple car play and can get to safety. This would be a great safety feature as Australia is such a huge and dangerous place especially in remote areas
Thanks very much
Dallas Ruhan
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