Auto-anchors in reshape route

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• plotaroute admin   Monday 17 Jul 2023 09:53:40

  Thanks for that suggestion Stephen and for your additional comments Willy.

  The vast majority of routes on Plotaroute are plotted using the Auto-Plot feature, so I'm not sure that automatically adding anchor points at vertices would be helpful or practical, as routes are normally made up of a very large number of vertices to ensure that the route follows roads or paths. However, your suggestion has prompted an idea that we may be able to look at - we could possibly introduce an button to automatically add anchor points at the locations of each of the directions, if the route has directions, or at all vertices, if the route doesn't have directions. This would be an optional feature, as it may often be preferable to add anchor points yourself. We'll have a think about that. Thanks again for your feedback.

• Willy Van Driessche Monday 17 Jul 2023 09:08:02

  Once you have finished your edit, save the result as a simple gpx navigation track.

  You later import it back 100% faithfully very quickly and simply continue an edit.

  With the Android version, this works identical and you navigate 100% faithfully as designed.

  This Cruiser gpx navigation track export is also perfectly importable into Locus map.

  The simple reconstruction by a gpx navtrack is possibly attractive for Plotaroute? 

  An example of an import into the Cruiser desktop version.

  Import gpx navigation track

  And an example of a gpz file import in the Locus map.

  Locus import gpz navigation track

  By a zipped gpx file so you can add additional information.

  This track offers navigation and images and functions offline.

  This is a realisation using a manually compiled file.

  So for now this is not offered by any existing web planner. 

   
• Willy Van Driessche Monday 17 Jul 2023 07:26:03

  "In other sites (ViewRanger [rip]"

  Alive and well ;-) Find an example.

  https://youtu.be/Pk6UbzArwRI

  By right click select add Via or Shaping point.

  Both types are reference points @ recalculation. 

  Viapoint @ navigate is announced a shaping point not.

  Free to add a custom via point name (TTS announced).

• Stephen R   Wednesday 12 Jul 2023 21:33:08

  I've just discovered this site today and the amount of editing tools available blows away the competition. However, that is IMO completely undermined by how clunky editing a (non auto-plot) route is, to the point where I don't think I would use this over the competition.

  In other sites (ViewRanger [rip], OutdoorActive, OS Maps, etc) to move a point you do this:

  1. Drag point

  On this site you have to:

  1. Enable Reshape Route mode
  2. Add an anchor before point to be edited
  3. Add an anchor after point to be edited
  4. Add an anchor on point to be edited
  5. Drag point
  6. Click Finish

  I think this could be improved by having an option to auto-add anchor points when clicking on a vertex (this is assuming a route with no auto-plot). An anchor would be auto-added to the vertex you clicked and to the preceding and following vertices. Then the process could be simplified to:

  1. Enable Reshape Route mode
  2. Drag point (hovering over a point/vertex changes it to show an anchor symbol, mousedown then adds the three anchors automatically, mousemove makes the edit, then mouseup would remove the auto-anchors).
  3. Click Finish

  You could still click in the middle of a line to add a new anchor-point but for editing existing points you just need to drag them.

  Thanks (and sorry if I'm misunderstanding how editing a route works, I did watch the help video!).