Features missing in translation in Here maps/drive

I just came home from a road trip from sweden to kroatia. Through the trip I used my lumia 920 for maps and navigations. I have done similar trips with my Nokia N8 (symbian belle) before. 
Sadly the old N8 did a better job. Don't get me wrong, the lumia also did a good job but there where a few missing features that were really annoying.
* Major miss: Here maps/drive cannot check alternative routes. This works on symbian, wehere you can add waypoints along the wanted route.
* Major miss: When on location I want to check for restaurants only or perhaps hotells only etc. Impossible in the Here maps/drive. I could only use the "places" function, that is utterly useless. I am not interrested in shops when looking to a place to eat, neither am I interested in police or hospitals when I looking for a place to sleep.etc. I could of course use the "search" but then I need to now the name of the restaurant and when I am in a new town this is not possible. 
In Symbian you could show all available locations in a specific category that were within the maps zoom range.
Example hotel category, bank category etc.
* Minor miss: the setting for which kind of roads that Here Drive are allowed to use (toll roads, ferries, ...) is only avalible when selecting a place in Hera maps and the -> directions. This setting is not even available in Here Drive!! The app that actally needs it! You cannot reach this setting from the normal "settings" menu in either of Maps or Drive
Minor miss: Why two apps? Merge them
Minor miss: Option to always show specific categories on the map without needing to search for them. 
Verrrry minor: Bring "Own voice" to windows phone. This is not usefull at all but extremly amusing. Especially when the kids have spoken all the messages.
Btw.. All mentioned missing features were available on the Nokia N8 but went missing when "upgrading" to a Lumia 920.

yasfer21 wrote:
There is a feedback option in the application. You can utilize that to send information on what you think should be improved in the application.
The missing features from Symbian has been feedbacked in over one and a half year, with no result at all.

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