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Mark Worthington Friday 08 Sep 2023 22:00:50
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plotaroute admin Saturday 09 Sep 2023 07:04:46
Thanks for all that feedback. We understand the issue Anders and that is a great suggestion to develop a Quick Edit option for the distance column in the directions table.
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Willy Van Driessche Saturday 09 Sep 2023 07:15:43
Thanks Anders.
Your experience with both Garmin operations and Plotaroute confirms my own experience about the dedicated Garmin Edges gps and tcx courses.
Being able to place that slider more precisely between track points in Plotaroute would be most optimal.
This distance slider method has so the great advantage that it tsimply works even with multiple overlapping track layers.
The method by Mark allows you to place a track point exactly at the location you need.
You can then use Plotaroute to then promote each track point to a Generic tcx coursepoint.
I should retest and confirm this (But I trust Mark) as I had previously used this in the past.I myself no longer use Edge nor tcx files but exactly the same can now be done using gpx tracks and smartphone navigation.
This gpx navigation track can still be converted to tcx if needed for certain dedicated gps devices using Locus map.
The track design is mostly not done by Plotaroute, so this method is sure out of topic here ;-)Advise: A precise distance slider this to place an extra trkpt (coursepoint) is the most favorouble that could be offered.
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Scott Stocking Monday 23 Oct 2023 18:40:34
I saw this post after I posted my own comments about the same issue. We had the same suggestion, using the distance slider to place directions would be ideal as long as you get the point where you need it.
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Anders Torger Tuesday 24 Oct 2023 08:52:38
What I ended up doing was that I temporarily moved the start position of the track with trial-and-error to make it possible to position my custom cues where I wanted them. Very tedious but since I only needed a handful of custom cues it was reasonable.
This works as the course seems to be subdivided in a fixed amount of steps and if you move the start position 15 meters the steps all over the track will move 15 meters. So you first try to position your cue, estimate how many meters off it is, and then move the start position that many meters and try to position your cue again. After that you can restore the start position again, already placed cues won't move.
So from a programmer point of view my guess is a fix to make this easier to work with is just increase the subdivision by a lot, at least if the track is long. You still would not be able to place precisely by dragging the slider as one pixel step will be too large, but then using the keyboard to fine-adjust would work, and I think that would be quite easy and fast to work with. -
Peter Höglund Wednesday 25 Oct 2023 16:20:39
@Anders, great suggestion that now is implemented.
"However this procedure is *very* tedious. Would be nice to just be able to type in distance manually as the least, and have fine steps when dragging the icon rather than using the slider as the best approach."
