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Map fonts - street names impossible to read

Levon
over 5 years ago

I find the the fonts used for the street names on the maps almost impossible to read. They may look ok blown up on a picture taken on my camera, but trust me, when I'm out there looking at my watch without extra help, they are pretty much illegible, hence useless.

I'm fairly certain I've seen pictures in reviews of this screen with simple easy to read thin black font .. does everyone else's map look like this? I've done all the various updates.

From the manual, clearly more legible

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Look under Maps in the Settings. Are there any options there to change the appearance? What happen if you zoom in/out? Would take a screenshot so that we can more clearly see the problem?

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    The map on my watch looks just like the map in the manual, with clear black font.  If your font is yellow like that it's not right.  Have you tried reinstalling the maps?  Or even just doing a hard reset on your watch?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

    Hi @- I zoomed in and out and it made no difference, same strange yellow font. I'm not sure what you mean by taking a screenshot, the first image above shows how my watch is displaying the street names in that fat yellow unreadable font, the one below is what I grabbed from the manual showing navigation and what I've seen in various reviews of the 945 and which is much more clear.

    I didn't make any changes to the maps, but I appreciate your suggestion, perhaps something got somehow changed to result in that unreadable font - I'll dig through the various settings and see what I can find.

    What do your maps/street names look like, like the top picture or the bottom one?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to lindajm22

    Hi , no I haven't tried either of the two (reinstall/reset), I'll dig around and see if there's possibly a setting that somehow got changed before that. Definitely prefer the readable font :)   Thanks!

    I'll report back what I find here.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Levon

    I am not aware of any setting that would change the font like that. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to lindajm22

    I ran today and my most recent run the map looks ok. So I went back and looked at the previous run with the ugly fat yellow fonts, and that's back to normal too .. so I'm not sure what the problem was. I haven't done any updates or changes to any of the settings between the two runs.

    As long as this doesn't happen again, I'm good. Thanks for the suggestions/help.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

    Update:

    I ran today and my most recent run the map looks ok. So I went back and looked at the previous run with the ugly fat yellow fonts, and that's back to normal too .. so I'm not sure what the problem was. I haven't done any updates or changes to any of the settings between the two runs.

    As long as this doesn't happen again, I'm good. Thanks for the suggestions/help.