App Updates On The Way
Having reached out personally to many of you to ask what you like, what you don’t like, and what we can do to make our app exactly what you want, we are super excited to announce that in March 2024 we began the development of a series of updates to the app, and plan a release later in the year. We are currently in the planning phase, and soon will begin revising the app so that it meets your needs.
Massive Update to Road Data Just Completed
Over the course of 2023, we made a massive update to the road data on our servers, and now users in North America and
Europe have instant access to the best dataset of twisty roads ever developed. We restructured our data to provide longer sections of roads, some of which are now over 50 miles in length. Other updates will be released soon, including:
Landscape and Portrait Orientation
The revised app will automatically provide you with both portrait and landscape map orientations.
Improved User Interface
We will be completely re-designing the user interface to make it much more intuitive, and to help you find fun driving roads as quickly as easily as possible.
Automatic Suggested Routings
Many of our customers have expressed a preference for us to suggest routes without you having to choose individual roads to create custom routes. We will be building a feature that will automatically generate a suggested route for you that you can accept as is, or modify at will. This will include a couple of new options on the Home Screen and Preferences Menu that will let you decide which general compass direction you wish to go to initiate a round trip, or the total distance you want to drive on a one-way trip, so the app will find and now suggest a route based on the best roads along the way.
Saving and Sharing your Routes
Many of you want to be able to save your preferred routes so you can use them again and also so you can share them with others. So, we are building a fun social networking feature just for that, which will include the ability to add ratings, notes and pictures and eventually videos if you would like to.
Offline Rerouting Capabilities
Our app uses your device's GPS to track your trip and re-route you when you go off course, but sometimes our customers find themselves in areas with poor cell phone service, and then rerouting does not always work. We understand how immensely frustrating that is, and so we are planning an offline capability that will download all the necessary map and routing data onto your device so you can navigate freely with or without cell service.
Further Down The Road
Apple Car Play & Android Auto
We want to make it easier for you to use the app in your car, and so seeing the trend towards this with many apps that can make use of the larger displays being built into cars, we will release a version for Apple Car Play in the very near future. The Android Auto integration will be part of the full Android release.
Apple vs Android
We’ve invested our financial resources to first build our technology into an Apple IOS app because in our view that was a more demanding technical and administrative challenge. The app front end was actually the easiest part, once we have a more well-rounded Apple product and are generating revenues that can support it, we will build an Android version as well.
Fees
With the award of our technology patent just over a year ago, we are super confident that our backend technology delivers exactly as planned and outperforms all the other apps on the market. Now we need to add the bells and whistles you have requested to the front end, and we really have to ask you to pay for its use so we can keep going and keep a roof over our heads. So far we have been entirely self-funded and had planned a launch for 30 March 2020. Then COVID happened...
We have maintained a completely free application since 2020 but this cannot continue forever, so later in 2024 we will begin to introduce new fees for all new customers as we improve the functionality of the app.
We are are of course reaching out to early investors who want to help accelerate the development of our new features, and support our market growth, and we ask that you to please be patient with us as we do this.
We took huge financial and personal risks to get this far, and so please have faith that we are totally committed to making this the best navigation app on the market. It might take us a few months for us to get where you want us to be – but we are going to do just that or die trying!
Investors
And of course, if you want to become a partner or investor, and join in the fun of getting us moving faster, please give us a call on 571 331 7093. We’d love to talk with you!