Navigation

Prerequisites

Before you can navigate for the first time, the offline maps and routing data need to be installed on the scooter. If you selected a map region in the Installer, this is already done – check Menu → Info → Maps to confirm. Otherwise, the one-time setup is described on Set up maps and navigation. Once the data is loaded, you don't need a mobile connection for navigation itself.

1.3+ Current offline maps label streets directly on the map. While a map or routing package is downloading, the status bar also shows an icon for the active download and its progress.

Navigation setup screen with maps and routing marked as ready, and a QR code linking to the instructions — Once maps and routing data are installed, the screen looks like this.

Start navigation from the parked menu:

Park the scooter and open the menu.
Go to Navigation and pick an entry:
- Enter Address: choose the city, then the street, then (optionally) a house number, one after another, from the address registry stored on the scooter.
- Recent Destinations: a list of places you've ridden to recently. Pick the right one, and you're done.
- Saved Locations: save your current location here to find it again later, and navigate to saved places.
Put the scooter in drive mode; the speedometer automatically switches to the map view and navigation runs.

As long as no destination is set, the map shows the hint "Set a destination to start navigation".

Several stops (1.4 preview)

Plan multiple stops in order from the parked navigation menu. You can reorder or skip stops and keep the plan across a restart. The route overview shows the remaining stops and fits the whole trip on the map; during guidance, the destination strip identifies the current stop. You can also add Route overview and Skip stop to the riding shortcut menu.

At an intermediate stop, a 30-second countdown selects the next stop only while the scooter remains ready to drive. Brake gestures do not control this prompt. With the shortcut menu closed, pressing the seatbox switch pauses the plan. Opening the shortcut menu holds the countdown; leaving drive mode cancels it. After a reached intermediate stop, entering drive mode again advances to the next stop. Do not operate the parked menu while riding.

For frequent trips, assign two destinations under Menu → Settings → Map & Navigation → Quick nav and add their shortcuts to the riding menu.

On the map while riding

During navigation, the display shows:

In the background, the map with your current position and the drawn route. Offline maps carry street names: main roads are labelled from a medium zoom in, side streets only at the closest zoom levels. The map switches automatically between light and dark mode, depending on ambient light.
Above the map, the instruction field with the next maneuver: an icon for the type of instruction (for example turn left, roundabout, continue straight), the remaining distance to the maneuver, and the plain-text hint. If a follow-up maneuver is very close, the one after that is also shown in a smaller preview.
In the top right corner, the remaining distance, the estimated remaining time, and the expected arrival time.
Below the map, a small plate shows the current street name. The plate's color follows German traffic-sign coloring: blue for motorways, yellow for federal roads, white for minor roads.
Next to it, a speed-limit sign can show the current limit for this stretch of road, if the routing data package includes that information.

Map view in light mode with a turn-by-turn instruction, street name plate, and speed-limit sign — Navigation in light mode.

The same map view in dark mode — The same scene in dark mode.

Map navigation showing a roundabout maneuver and the route through it — Roundabout instructions show the route and the required exit.

Map view and route settings

How the map is drawn and how routes are chosen is set in Menu → Settings → Map & Navigation.

Map View: 3D tilts the map back so more of the road ahead is visible, and is the default. 1.3+ 2D is a flat top-down view.
1.3+ Orientation: Heading turns the map with you, North keeps north at the top. The entry only appears while Map View is on 2D; in 3D the camera always follows your direction of travel.
1.3+ Route: Fastest (the default) routes by travel time, Shortest by raw distance.
1.3+ Avoid Cobblestone: Off, Low, Medium (the default), or High. Low, Medium, and High allow increasingly larger detours around rough stretches; Off switches the avoidance off entirely. This needs compatible routing tiles that classify cobbles; older tiles ignore the setting. The entry is hidden while Route is set to Shortest, because shortest costs by distance alone and never looks at the surface.
1.3+ Map Updates: a single selector with Off (the default), Notify, or Download. Notify checks at most once a week, whenever the scooter comes online, and tells you when a newer map for your region exists. Download does the same and fetches it on its own, which uses mobile data.
1.3+ Check for Updates: asks right now instead of waiting for the automatic check, and shows how long ago the last check ran. It needs the modem connected, and it only appears once maps are installed.
Map Type and Navigation Routing: whether the map is drawn from local tiles or an online tile server, and whether routes are calculated on the scooter or by a remote server. The two are independent, so you can mix them.

Map and Navigation settings menu with map view, route, and update choices — Map and route behavior is configured in one menu.

Flat 2D map view oriented in the direction of travel — The optional 2D map view with heading orientation.

GPS position

Until GPS finds your position, the screen shows "Waiting for GPS fix". The map appears automatically once a fix is available. Acquisition can take longer after installation, a long period without use or with a restricted view of the sky. If a recent position is not accurate enough for routing, a notification explains the wait while an available map stays visible.

Ending a navigation

You end a running navigation through the menu: Menu → Navigation → Stop Navigation. The map stays visible, but the route, the turn-by-turn instructions, and the instruction field disappear. Menu → Switch to Cluster View takes you back to the normal cluster display.

What changed compared to scooterOS

Navigation on the scooter is a Librescoot original; the original firmware had no map or routing function on the display. A detailed overview of all changes is on Changes from scooterOS.

Regional offline maps (1.4 preview)

Several named map and routing packs can be installed through USB Update Mode. With a recent GPS fix, the dashboard selects the matching region and its address index. Routes must stay within that region; cross-region routing is not supported. Existing single-region maps remain supported. Migrating an existing regular routing archive requires an explicit setup step.