Gman61
Well-known member
That's a quality piece of furniture Clark!!!...?You called down the thunder, reap my OCD! ?
Truck getting loaded (courtesy of Dexter)
Got a wrecked car on the front. I hope he's got that strapped down tight. I also hope the pieces of that car stay where they are while on the interstate.
Driver was parked awhile at McDonalds, then left Woodbridge.
He avoided I95 South entirely (congestion on parts of it) and got on I64 West somewhat close to Charlottesville.
Here's some screen grabs after Charlottesville:
He took a break at the Pilot Travel center in Raphine VA
He's now on I81 near Natural Bridge VA. So about 7 hours out!
Seriously though - this is pretty cool. Thanks to everyone's help on here with it.
To get a new location, you go to the Vehicle tab on Ford Pass and swipe down. It's takes maybe 20 seconds or so to get an update, but there is a lag after that of maybe 30 seconds to translate that update to an address and XY on the map. You can then click on that address and see the map.
If you go to the map itself it shows you where you are (where your phone is), but after a lag, it zooms out of that close up and almost shows you both your location and the truck. (GIS/Map programmer space on the map extents for this Zoom - needed some testing/input from the transport end.)
If you manually zoom out further, you can then see the truck's location.
Ford really needs a third button at the bottom of the map. The top button is a standard symbol to show you your phone's location. The next button is a "drop a Pin on the map" button and it defaults to your phone location, sometimes moving the map when you do so.
To me, that 2nd button should be the truck/vehicle location button ("show me where the truck is"), and a 3rd button could be there (showing a Pin icon) for you to place a Pin (and don't move the map back to my phone location when I am zoomed in somewhere trying to add a Pin).
More than you wanted to know, but my OCD is in overdrive.
Really sharp looking truck!!
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