Alternative route issues

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  • Martyn Sandford   Saturday 07 Nov 2020 20:25:02

    Hii John,

    I've just used the Alternative Route feature for the first time and have noticed some anomolies.  (See route 1331750.)

    First, when I open the route from the 'Share' link, it keeps on animating after the marker has reached the end of the route.  I also notice that the route length is indicated to be much longer than it realy is.  Could it be adding the detour rather than treating it as an alternative?

    Second, If I select the alternative route the directions are shown but, if I select my original route, the part that has been bypassed by the detour has lost its directions.

    Regards, Martyn

  • plotaroute admin   Monday 09 Nov 2020 09:00:47

    Thanks for flagging that up Martyn. The first point will need investigating - not sure what's happened there. I suggest editing and resaving the route to see if this fixes it. I'm not sure what you mean by the second point though. When I toggle the detour in and out the directions on the swapped out section look like they are reinstated correctly e.g. No 23 starting "At the end of Flower Walk..."

  • Martyn Sandford   Monday 09 Nov 2020 10:13:01

    Hi John. Re second point... "At the end of Flower Walk" is on the alternative route.  These are showning OK.  Its the directions on the original route between the ends of the detour that seem to have gone AWOL at some point.  I entered them first, before I plotted the detour, and did not explicity delete them.

    I guess there may be confusion over which is the primary route and which is the detour.  As far as I can see, there is no system distinction... it's simply a matter of which one happened to be selected when the route was last saved.  In my mind, the tow path route was the original route and Flower Walk the detour.  Apologies if it appeared the other way round.

  • plotaroute admin   Tuesday 10 Nov 2020 08:33:37

    Hi Martyn - you'll need to save it as you want it to be seen, so if the Flower Walk part is the detour, yiou should swap this over before you save the route.

  • Martyn Sandford   Tuesday 10 Nov 2020 13:37:37

    OK.  Understood.

    The issue is that the directions I had originally placed on the variation that runs by the river have somnehow disappeared without me explicitly deleting them.

  • plotaroute admin   Wednesday 11 Nov 2020 08:38:16

    It's hard to know why that might have happened Martyn. There may have been some odd glitch with the editing of the detour but unless a problem can be conistently recreated it's hard to fix. I've corrected the recorded distance for your route though, so the animation should end correctly now.

  • Martyn Sandford   Wednesday 11 Nov 2020 10:18:08

    Many thanks.  I need to edit the missing detials back in so I will look out in case the issue occurs again.  If it does, I'll try to identify the action that causes it.

  • Martyn Sandford   Friday 20 Nov 2020 17:20:38

    John,

    I've reproduced the disappearing directions issue.  It only takes the simplest of routes - see 1348439.

    • Create a simple route.
    • Add three directions: one near the start (A), one in the middle (B) and one near the end (C).
    • Plot a diversion from somewhere between A and B to somewhere between B and C.
    • Save.
    • As expected, switching from the main route to the diversion makes the intermediate direction (B) disappear form the direction list.  However, on switching back, the text of direction B has disappeared (although the icon I added seems to be intact.)

    Martyn

  • plotaroute admin   Monday 23 Nov 2020 08:43:55

    Thanks Martyn, but I tried the steps you gave and it worked OK for me! I must have done something different to you somehow.

  • Martyn Sandford   Monday 23 Nov 2020 09:49:56

    Reflecting over the weekend... I went to the 'View Route' screen to switch between the main route and the alternative and I think this is when the direction text disappeared.  My impression is that, while I was editing, both sets of text were present.  Without being able to see the impact on the background database, it's difficult for me to experiment rigourously but I have been able to make it happened twice now.

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