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Thanks for that feeedback - that's very helpful.

I would second that regarding the A & B marker!

Mark's post brought the new, colour selection feature to my notice.  Very many thanks for implementing this!  I went straight to a couple of my collections to give it try.  Here's some immediate feedback.

• Selecting a colour worked well on my collection (9468) that has 4 routes that simply needed a different but appropriate colour for each one.
• However, when I tried it on another collection (86) I discovered that there was no way to reliably reselect a colour I had already used.  This collection has many routes and I wanted to arrange them into groups of the same colour (to indicate 'spine', 'links' etc.).  It would be helpful if the colours already used in the collection could show as clickable boxes or for there to be a field where the code for the colour could be entered (or both?)  I did my best with this collection but it was both tedious and a bit hit and miss to get matching colours.
• Finally, if there are many routes in a collection, the 'Display' menu can be used to turn off lables and symbols etc. to make the map less cluttered.  However, the one item that's not controllable is the 'A' and 'B', start and end markers.  With my example collection (86), even these make it look untidy and confused.  Would it be possible to add a switch for these and thus provide the user with complete discretion as to what is displayed?

Can't ask for more!

Hi Mark,

I can see how this would be useful where you have contiguous routes, as you do with your Scottish Coast collection. It's a good idea, but it's not a quick one to sort out though and as you know we also have lots of other good ideas competing for time! It's the sort of thing we might be able to do when we next do some development work on that lart of the site though.

Hi, back to this!

I have a 24 route Collection. The default colours are really very similar, so the Collection can't distinctly show each route.

OK, I have started to manually select Custom colours, simply red and blue, in sequence. This binary colour choice really makes this very visible. However, the process is a lengthy one, so I ask again, any chance of implementing a "binary" or "alternating" colour choice, please?

See Scottish Coast

Cheers,

Mark

Sounds good. I was just thinking of that special "nice to have" extra option ...... :)

Thanks Mark. I think if we added an option to choose colours for routes in a collection, it would probably be to choose any colour.

A suggestion for colours: maybe an option can be added to just use 2 colours (say red & blue, or user can choose).

I'm routing a 10 day ride. When each ride is added to My Collections, the absolute colour is not so important, it's being able to tell Day 1 from Day 2 etc. A binary colour choice would make this very visible at a stroke.

Regards,

Mark

Yes, it was the mobile site that I was using. I'll try to remember to check both sites for any issue in future. Thanks for the explanation.

It looks like the search and comment options are missing from the Feature Request page on the mobile site (they're available on the desktop site), so we'll look at adding them. 

Browswer serach for "113", then "Start Discussion" to add your specific comments. :)

PS How do I get to and open Feature Request 113 to read it? The link takes me to a screen with loads of requests and no search. Once I eventually locate 113, I can vote... but not open it to see or add to the details (e.g., by adding my examples below.)

I have another example of a collection where it would make better sense if the colours were selectable. It's essentially a spine (plotted as four separare routes) with a number of optional deviations (each plotted as a separate route.) At the moment it looks like a bag of licorice all sorts. It would be much more intelligible if the 4 spine sections could be selected to show in one colour with all the deviations in another. The current 'rainbow random' is a useful default starting point but it would be good to have the freedom to subsequently select colours to match the logic of the collection.

Voted!

I have a Collection for an upcoming cycling tour in Ireland. See Ireland 2022 Collection

Days 4 to 7 are all variations of green, and a bit hard to differentate.

Regards,

Mark

I can see the issue Martyn. At present the colours of the lines are automatcially worked out to evenly distribute them across the visual spectrum, so that there is maximum differentation between them. But I can understand that there are times when you want to choose a specific colour for each route. We do already have this on our Feature Requests list (number 113) but it doesn't have any votes yet, so please add your vote for this. 

I second that! Collections is a stand-out feature of PR vs other apps, and being able to just define the colours would be a really useful addition.

It would be useful to be able to select the colour of each route when viewing a collection. I've just plotted a number of routes which are way marked in specific colours. It is very confusing and rather ridiculous to have the 'red route' displayed in green, and the 'blue route' in yellow... but I can't see any way to select the line colours for myself.