nerp
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Did you know you can record trails that you have travelled using your UConnect in the Jeep JL? It's not only useful but like so many UConnect features it is also frustratingly incomplete. To get to it, open your NAV application and press the "Where To..." button. Scroll down and some new options you've probably never seen before will appear - and one is "Trails."
Once you get in there, you can record your progress on a trail using the "Start Recording..." option. It's pretty cool and really helpful to "unwind" your way back out of a trail and your location doesn't need to snap to a map road. You can record your drive through the forest or ungraded desert!
Terry
Once you get in there, you can record your progress on a trail using the "Start Recording..." option. It's pretty cool and really helpful to "unwind" your way back out of a trail and your location doesn't need to snap to a map road. You can record your drive through the forest or ungraded desert!
- Your drive paths are saved on here.com's internal servers and you have no way of accessing that data except through the UConnect. (Here.com is the new provider of the Navigation application for the Wrangler JL - previously, it was Garmon. I made a call to UConnect to see if I could get access to this data, and they said to call here.com. Of course, calling them went about as well as you would think it might (not well at all). If anyone knows more about this, I'd love to hear.)
- You need to "start recording" every time you turn off the car and turn it back on. I guess this is ok, but I like to stop frequently when I'm 4-wheeling and I typically don't leave the Jeep running while I survey the road or rocks and ruts ahead. There's no way to combine the paths or continue a recording.
- There seems to be no way to rename the recordings. They are named simply by the date and time that they were recorded. If you have google location recording turned on (most of us probably do), then you can use http://myactivity.google.com or your online calendar to figure out when you went to "XXX Wildlife Preserve" in order to find that one trail you were on last year.
Terry
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