Maybe I need to collect some more experience before I can tell more precisely what am I missing. Maybe just the ability to use already available featueres in my current setup (including user interface) would be enough. Currently for me it is not possible to zoom in/out while riding and I cannot use the gas station search efficiently (I can open the view, but jumping from one to the other does not work without touchscreen). Also another related request (Zwischenziele scrollen beim navigieren) to be able to show the time distance to all via pionts and not just to the next one would be a significant improvement.
But I’ll still try to answer your follow-up questions from the current point of view.
Zooming on the area between the current location and the next via point was my initial idea. On the other hand, if you search gas-stations along the route, you would probably also get a sufficient overview of what’s coming next. And a gas station is always a suitable place to stop safely even for a group of riders and decide where to go next. Also if zooming would be usable while riding in my setup, i might be able to zoom out and get a sufficient overview. Suitable places to stop are those where there is at least a parking area, sometimes a panoramic spot would be nicer, otherwise a café/imbiss is always good.
I had different things in mind when I wrote this. One thing is - when planning a route I would save more POIs as Favorites than can actually fit on the route. If the plan is changed spontaniously, it would be good to see where they are and try to navigate to one of them. The other case is when I did not study the route in advance but would still like to see where is a nice place (panoramic point, landmark, pass, café…) to stop nearby.
Searchingfor POI while riding might be too complex.
Also here, the ability to zoom out while riding might be sufficient to get a sufficient overview and decide in which direction to ride. I know zooming is generally available, but it does not work with my bike controls. Maybe also here improving support for OEM specific controls as well as 3rd party products would be more beneficial for Kurviger. But there is a separate thread for this which I only recently discovered.