Navigation color madness

To navigate with the Edge 1050 you only have to follow the purple line .... if you are able to find and read it.

With only slight presbyopia (old eyes) the thin purple line is - depending on the background - halfway readable ==> should be thicker.

The purple navigation-line get's overwritten by the blue track-line ==> navigation very hard to see

If you have some turns ahead, you see only white arrows instead of purple, when having a gray background ==> super-hard to see

When you get off-course, a second line with a different shade of purple/pink shows the way back to the course ==> hard to distinguish

When you turn on the popularity-map you will see the popular tracks in different shades of purple ==> hard to distinguish

The virtual partner sometimes shows a second arrow (virtual partner cannot be turned off) ==> difficult to distinguish from the navigation arrow

This "navigation color madness" makes it very difficult for me to follow off-road-navigations, even when navigating with a roadbike I miss turns because of it.

Fortunately I only rented the device (with the option to buy it afterwards), I don't think I will keep it.

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0 richardb20 3 months ago

On a Edge 1030, there are settings to change the colour of these lines.

0 richardb20 3 months ago

on Edge 1050 - Select > Activity Profiles, select a profile, and select Navigation > Map > Appearance

History Line Color

Allows you to change the line color of the path you have traveled.

0 EdgesEdging 3 months ago in reply to richardb20

This would also be confusing to me, I wouldn't know which color is which line ...

... better: the navigation line overwrites the trackline, or don't draw a trackline at all.

0 EdgesEdging 3 months ago in reply to EdgesEdging

This screenshot shows an example of Garmin coloring:

White arrows on grey background over the blue line over the purple line.

Additionaly there are two cursors.

0 L.Rouge 3 months ago in reply to EdgesEdging

at least the 1050 has a user location cursor which is slightly bigger than the VP rather than a near invisible half the size of the VP like on previous devices but the lack of the MapThemes with its ability to change some colors like the course line color is a huge negative.

0 GFP 3 months ago

The virtual partner can be accelerated, so it will go away!

Scroll down, choose Controls - Virtual Partner, and increase the speed. Re-sync to user.

0 EdgesEdging 3 months ago in reply to GFP

Do I need to do this for every ride or only once?

0 GFP 3 months ago in reply to EdgesEdging

For every ride

0 tjj1664 3 months ago

I found that with the Edge1050 map color mode set to dark and set to high contrast, the navigation lines and roads were very clear

0 mcinner1 3 months ago

EdgesEdging said:
The purple navigation-line get's overwritten by the blue track-line ==> navigation very hard to see

As shown in your picture: this case is not the usual case. The blue line overwrites the purple line only for already ridden sections. Your picture shows a special case, because you have already ridden this track and are riding it for a second time within the same activity. And yes - then it is hard to see. On the other hand: you were here already for not so long time - you should remember…