Nav VI question

[Grumpy Goat]

To start, I am still getting acclimated to everything BMW. I'll try to explain this as well as I can. The last ride I was following the NAV (no destination) on a road following a river. I noticed the Nav has my location icon (little bike) following the road. However, the Nav seemed to 'lose" my location icon as I progressed on the ride which bothered me as was keeping track to upcoming "forks in the road" to stay parallel to the river. I wasn't manually adjusting the zoom in/out, although when I lost my icon I would "use"  backtrack to find my location again. Is this normal? Its different then google maps of course.......

What Navigator model are you using?

In my experience, the map display (i.e. alternate view when no destination is defined) is not as precise (as when you are navigating to an input destination), and is intended to show an overview of major roads, etc. For this reason it starts out really zoomed out, and when zoomed in, you could be zoomed in too much resulting in the bike being off the displayed map. I don't believe that in this display mode the icon is [more or less] fixed at a general location on the screen. 

Unless I missed my guess, what I am trying to say is that maybe in this display you are covering ground too fast for this map display to catch up, at the zoom level you are at.

That said, I am no expert at using this map view (as I hardly use it) so I could be wrong, of course.