What s New?
NAVIGON for Android - Version 5.5.0
15th October 2015
Street Parking
This free feature provides Live information1 about the current street side parking situation. The service will start in 6 major cities of Germany : Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart and Bonn. A quick roll-out to more urban areas is planned.
How to use Street Parking : In address search a P icon is shown in the destination overview map to call Street Parking information. During navigation or in Show-Map mode the service can be called via the overflow menu (3-dot icon in the upper information bar). When being in a served area, the single road side elements will get coloured in green, yellow or red2 to indicate the likely availability of parking spots in these city centers.
A long-press on the desired road segment will open an additional window in the lower half of the screen, with detailed information, such as road name, distance from own position, time of parking allowance, restrictions and the hourly price. In seldom cases detail information may be incomplete.
When parking is chosen as a destination and the approach is less than 15min away, the application will start to check the status of the selected parking segment. In case the situation changes for the worse the user will be informed and an option to seek for another parking area is offered.
The service has been developed using floating car and historical data in partnership with parking information supplier
Parkopedia.
1Street
Parking is a Live service and therefore a data connection is mandatory. Charges from your mobile network supplier may occur depending on your contract when you use that service.
2Colour
code of likelihood : Green = 90% or higher, Yellow = 10% to 90%, Red = below 10%
Connect IQ support
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This free function allows users of Garmin smartwatch3 to receive visual and vibration alarms when approaching a speed camera, exceeding the speedlimit4 or when a new traffic event is received5.
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Furthermore turning advices are shown on the watch while navigating. For each of above mentioned functions it is possible to set whether one wants to be noticed through the watch
vibration alarm or not. This can be selected from Settings > Connect IQ devices > Vibration
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It is possible to connect up to 5 devices with NAVIGON. To connect, please go to Settings >
Connect IQ devices > Activate devices
Note : In order to make use of the function you need to install the Garmin Connect Mobile application from Google Play. Once done and devices are coupled it further needs to install the NAVIGON Companion app from the Connect IQ Store.
Note : In case the watch shouldn t receive any data from NAVIGON, please restart both devices. Some smartphones with a restrictive connection handling, may have general difficulties for automatic reconnection.
