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Position cursor - triangle size

Hi Garmin,

How is it possible that such a large company, which released so many good products on the market, after so many posts on the official forum and on the official website regarding the increase in the size of the positional cursor - triangle, is so irresponsible and ineffective? 90% of people who bought EDGE 1030 and 1040 series navigation for cycling asked you to increase this triangle with a software update because it is really small and unnoticeable. I can't believe you are so blatantly inconsiderate. Many have sold such navigation systems and switched to devices from other manufacturers for this exact reason. Please take a look at the visual design of other manufacturers' displays and create the boom that is expected of you.

B.R.

Krisz

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dpawlyk 9 months ago in reply to L.Rouge +1 verified

L.Rouge said:
At the very least they could get the most junior programmer to spend 30 minutes swapping the position cursor and Virtual Partner (almost twice the size) symbols

Why is the virtual partner…

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0 L.Rouge 9 months ago

At the very least they could get the most junior programmer to spend 30 minutes swapping the position cursor and Virtual Partner (almost twice the size) symbols, the color of both can be modified via the MapTheme (hack) but as you say it is unbelievable they have ignored these requests for years & years when it would be so easy to fix.

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/cycling/f/edge-1040-series/345784/is-it-possible-to-change-size-and-color-of-the-tracking-triangle-in-the-map/1668034#1668034

+1 dpawlyk 9 months ago in reply to L.Rouge

L.Rouge said:
At the very least they could get the most junior programmer to spend 30 minutes swapping the position cursor and Virtual Partner (almost twice the size) symbols

Why is the virtual partner symbol bigger (there's a reason)?

The position cursor is always in the same place isn't it?

0 dpawlyk 9 months ago

pkrisz74 said:
90% of people

You made this number up.

0 L.Rouge 9 months ago in reply to dpawlyk

I am happy for you that your eyesight must be much better than mine and better than that of 90%** of Garmin users. In my cycling club the average age of members is probably in the 50s and everyone (who has a Garmin) complains regarding the difficulty of using the navigation map and seeing the details including the cursor with a quick glance rather than needing a prolonged deliberate study. **ok I made that number up, but it would be so easy for Garmin to offer an option for a bigger symbol and so difficult to understand why they don’t but it does seem typical of their apparent attitude regarding their customers.

0 thomass001 9 months ago in reply to L.Rouge

Garmin would say. You should move closer to the device, then the cursor will become larger.

0 pkrisz74 9 months ago in reply to dpawlyk

It is not about the position. It is about the size. Please do not push the topic in another direction.

Position ≠ Size!

0 pkrisz74 9 months ago in reply to dpawlyk

I am sure in these numbers. If you can not do it, would you let the car navigation developers fix this problem? They know how it should be done, because it is very well done on the car navigation system (I also own a Garmin car navigation system).

This is really a shame, how you are getting out of solving an important issue.

Please, just see how it should look on competing devices.

0 dpawlyk 9 months ago in reply to L.Rouge

pkrisz74 said:
It is not about the position. It is about the size. Please do not push the topic in another direction.

Position ≠ Size!

It’s always in the same place. It’s not hard to find.

0 dpawlyk 9 months ago in reply to L.Rouge

L.Rouge said:
In my cycling club the average age of members is probably in the 50s and everyone (who has a Garmin) complains regarding the difficulty of using the navigation map and seeing the details including the cursor with a quick glance rather than needing a prolonged deliberate study.

You are making (exaggerating) this up too.

It’s not the “dire” problem a few people here are imagining.

0 Pete 9 months ago in reply to thomass001

..and more aero