Great idea, terrible app. So frustrating! A hardcopy “Touring Mapple” is the go-to handbook for any motorcycle tour of Japan. Each volume is well researched, thoughtfully laid out, and intuitive for use by touring motorcyclists. Tour by bike in Japan without a copy of Touring Mapple handy and you will miss the best possible roads, views, and experiences - the handbooks are that good IMHO. Sadly, the app implementation is the opposite. Instead of all that incredibly useful information being liberated by 21st century tech, it is hobbled. User registration, login, and password management is flaky. User interface is clunky, one can’t simply touch the app icon and start researching or riding, you gotta scroll through self-serving ads every time (remember this is a subscription only service, no “lite” version). Once you get past those… Portrait mode only? C’mon 🙄! Unlike any other smartphone mapping/nav app, you cannot view Landscape, cannot set a zoom level. It’s just an image layer from their indexed maps. An image layer designed for A4/B5 hardcopy pages with no concession or thought how it might be useful or visible on a 5” touchscreen (it isn’t). None of the prefaces, map legends, useful indexes available in the hardcopy are available to the Route! user. If this were a home work project, I’d just shrug it off and try another app. But this supplier has The Best Data for the mission. Did they hire a couple teenagers and put them in a room and say “make an applie?” Is it another example of a Japanese company founded by innovators now long departed and run by (ahem) managers? Whatever the reason, this app is missed opportunity to make something really good. 1/10