CamperContact Pro Now Offering Navigation with Vehicle Dimensions

[DBK]

If you have subscribed to the CamperContact Pro app there is now a facility for navigating built in. Previously if you chose navigation it would switch to Google Maps or whatever was your default mapping app.

The system allows you to enter vehicle dimensions although this only seems to accept whole metres for vehicle length. We are 7.4m but I could only choose 7m or 8m. Width does allow decimals so I could enter 2.3m.

To find navigation in the app select an entry then click on the arrow in the lower right, as seen on this screenshot.

So, does it work? My initial test wasn't convincing. I selected a site close to home and this was the suggested route.

We often drive to Yealmpton but even in a car we don't take the suggested route which is single track and in poor condition - potholes, overhanging branches etc. We now go west via Sherford. You could drive our MH on the route CC has chosen, it would physically fit but it would be an unpleasant drive.

At the bottom of the screenshot above is "Open in other apps" which allows you to choose Google Maps. The Google Maps route goes west towards Sherford.

I may give it another try in Spain when we are there in a week or so but this wasn't a good start.

 

[Solwaybuggier]

Thanks for the tip - I’ve just looked at it and found I could input exact length, on the second screen of My Motorhome. (External dimensions identical to DBK’s van.). No idea how good the navigation is, though.
But I think it doesn’t work if the site is one that allows you to book within the app - the booking button seems to take priority? Of course it may be that if you make a booking in the app, it does appear, but I didn’t want to test that out!