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What app/program do you wish existed and what does it do that you've not found elsewhere? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wish there was a good looping software that good take any song and cut the perfect infinite loop of it automatically.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just coming back from a trip and adding to this, I wish Organic Maps / CoMaps had a function to automatically add rest stops and fuel stops.

For example, for a 7 hour road trip it would prompt:

Frequency of rest stops: 120 minutes
Time spent at rest stop: 20 minutes
Approx remaining range: 150km
Approx car range overall: 500km

Obviously I've just been pulling into service stations and rest stops on my own accord, but I like having small goals and not having the navigation lose it's shit at me because I decided to pull into a small town halfway through. Would just make planning a day of driving much easier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

This would be great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That exists. Weather on the way.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-on-the-way/id1471394318

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

iOS only.

For the rest of us, best you can do with them is pick your interstate: https://weatherontheway.app/us-interstate-weather/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I did search for "weather on the way" in google play store. While they don't have an android app, I found two similar apps that do a lot of what I wanted: "drive weather" and "highway weather." Thank you for the search term that yielded results. I like that the"highway weather" app allows adding in rest stops and propagates the change into the forecast.

I will note that neither of these options seem to offer turn by turn navigation. So there is still room for some of the navigation apps to integrate this functionality.