Roads by Porsche

Overall it’s a great app for sharing routes. Personally in my country as the roads are very inconsistent in width and quality etc, I don’t use the app for making routes, only for sharing them - once I’ve brought in roads as GPX files. Some features that would be good to see are: 1. The ability to automatically flip a route and return back to the start. This is perfect for going back home after a drive to the end of a nice road. This avoids the chance of having to map yourself back by memory (you can get lost) or by Google maps (which may recommend a different route). 2. Sometimes when mapping from home to the start point of a route, the app doesn’t realise I’ve arrived at the start point. If I continue going then past the start point, the app keeps trying to route me back to start. It should be able to sense that I am now following the route as shown within the roads app, and accordingly map me to the end of the route instead of the start. There should be some way for the app to know that once I’ve been following the line for the saved route for some time, it no longer needs to map me to the start point of the saved route. 3. It would be nice to have a way to share a route with just your friends, and not to everyone publicly on the roads app.

Good concept good can’t tell what the route is

I think the app should have large support in live speedometer so you know how exactly fast your going as most car speedometers are not accurate. Also add support for speed cameras, light cameras, a level system for amount of things you report such as put holes, police mobile cameras etc.

Would be great if there was carplay integration. You’d be able to see the map instead of just relying on audio cues

Great roads. But I’d like a map I can explore with routes marked on them. And I’d like the ability to follow people who produce good routes. And finally, about ten of the routes on here and the descriptions were ones I entered in the earlier GTS Routes App, but no acknowledgement. Bit disappointing.

While the auto-generated routes are a cool feature, I’m really struggling to see why user-generated routes were removed from the map tab in the app. Yes, I know I can see “best routes in the region” on the home tab and my favorited routes are still accessible, but I can no longer see what other app users may have created near me which is incredibly frustrating. I’m not sure why user-generated AND auto-generated routes can’t BOTH be visible on the map tab; that would keep everyone happy. Limiting the way we can use the app just feels like bad design. Also, I noticed when I do choose a user-generated route, it no longer takes me directly there and instead tries to make a “fun route” on the way there. While this might work for some users, I would rather just get to the route I wanna check out ASAP and do that route. Once again, options would be nice here. Please consider this feedback; I’ve really enjoyed using this app for about a year and these recent updates are admittedly disappointing.

Please bring back the map function to explore other area’s routes. The auto generated routes are cool but the real gem of this app was giving the users the ability to record their own route and share it with their friends/local backroad enthusiasts. If I could go back to the previous rendition of the app i would in a heartbeat, this new version is not user friendly

I really like the idea of what the app is. I like that it can generate routes to give you a new experience. But like other reviews, it doesn’t allow for deviations from the route if you want to take in the scenic aspects of your route. My biggest frustration is that you can’t change/inverse the direction of your route when you generate it. Even when choosing a starting point, what if I want to start going straight but the app makes me do a U-turn instead. It’s things like this that makes me frustrated and enough to never open the app or outright delete it. Good concept but it needs more work.

The auto generated roads work perfect but if you try to jot down your own route the thing messes it up frequently. ETA functions don’t work either.

It's a great idea for an app: tell me where you are, and what kinda drive you want to do, and I will create a route for you. And if you like it, share it with your friends. However, it's at Beta at best. Two reasons: (1) it has a hard time understanding you are already on the route. Unless you start exactly where the route begins, it will try to reroute you. So don't leave andoad the app - by the time it's loaded you are on the route, and you're toast. (2) the routing algorithm needs major corrections. It will give you a general idea where to go, and typically that general route is very good. However, it will constantly route you of the main route, through neighborhoods - I guess to add more turns? One time it avruakky wanted me to go through a school parking lot. On small loops you can disobey and just follow the general direction, not so if the loop is a few blocks. Major annoyance, not to say potentially hazardous.