Roads by Porsche 4+

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.

Hi stng,

Thanks for your review and welcome to Roads by Porsche. We are happy to announce that we have just pushed an update that now features a map view among other improvements.

As for the routes you contributed to the previous product, please get in touch with us via the Feedback button inside the app and we are happy to assign these routes to your profile in Roads by Porsche.

Thanks,
Marco // 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.

UPDATE : With version 3.7, we have just released an app update that includes a brand new navigation experience. This new navigation finally solves all issues mentioned. We would like to invite you to give it a try and update your review if you like. Thanks!

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.

Hi Erfan Rahimi! Thank you for your review. ROADS is designed to generate an interesting scenic route with a minimum of effort. For speed camera alerts, etc. you may want to look for a different solution.