As promised, here's a thread discussions for possible suggestions for CoPilot v8:
User-definable default POI categories: When you add a new destination by selecting 'Point of Interest' to your trip, it currently comes up with these categories (truck version): Truck Services, Gas Station, Restaurant, Hotel, Airport & Railway Station. Myself, I only use the Truck Services from the default list, but have my own POI categories I use 99% of the time. It'd be nice to be able to choose which categories come up by default.
Search Location: When adding a POI as a stop, you have the choice of searching: Nearby, In Different City or On my Route. I'd like to see 2 more choices added: Near my Next Stop and Near my Destination. Typically, that's where I need to find a truckstop.
Add Stop: Currently, when you add a stop, it always goes to the bottom of the list in the route planner. I'd like to have a prompt asking where to put the new stop: Before Next Stop, After Next Stop, Before Destination or Make Final Destination.
POI Importer: Currently CoPilot v8 for the laptop will only accept .ov2 files. I'd like to see a built-in (or seperate program) to import other file formats, especially .csv files.
POI Importer 2: Set CoPilot so that it can import more than one POI set at a time. Currently you have to do one file at a time, with an exit/restart of the program between each import. The same issue exists on the Android version.
Add Scroll buttons: Even though CoPilot has 'throw scrolling' built-in, it's too sensitive 99% of the time. I would like to see a simple up & down button added to each list in CoPilot.
Automatic Day/Night Mode adjustment: Currently, the Automatic day/night mode works, but it changes to day mode too early and to night mode too late. It's still almost dark when it changes. a 30-45 minute adjustment to this would solve that issue.
Where Am I: Something I would REALLY like to see would be a 'Where Am I' feature. What I'm thinking is that if you click your current location (click your vehicle icon on the map), a screen would pop-up that would show your current gps location, as well as the closest city & state. It could be expanded to show the highway you're on, as well as the street address if possible.
Font size change: In the blue 'Info' bar below the map, the font needs to be increased a bit. When running at 800x600 on a 7" monitor, the text is barely readable, even though there's plenty of room to make it larger.
Side of street: In Garmin Mobile PC, as you were approaching your destination, the program would tell you something like "1.4 miles on the right". I didn't know how much I liked that feature until I didn't have it any longer.
Favor & Avoid Roads (OneRVer): Older versions of CoPilot had the ability to mark a road to favor/avoid when the program selected the routing. Any possibility of getting this feature reinstated?
Truck specific - At-grade Railroad Crossings: When using the truck mode, under HazMat routing, I would *LOVE* to see the program warn me when I'm approaching an at-grade railroad crossing. An at-grade crossing is one that you physically cross on the highway (not a bridged crossing). Under federal law, placarded trucks must stop prior to every RR crossing. Finding out 300 feet from a crossing on a US highway in the country in the middle of the night during a snowstorm isn't a fun thing. Even a 1 mile warning would be great. Of course, this all depends on if the map data has this informaiton.