Thought I would start a thread as i got nowhere with the inbuilt help. New Route building, add waypoints. Route calculated with line and time shown now, Stopped calcualting routes, waypoints sit there and sometime don't appear inroute Any ideas please?
Watching as I have been trying MRA lately, based on all the positive feedback and I am not gelling with it at all. Thanks for starting it.
Can't really help as it's been running just fine for the last 18 months for me but there is a very helpful group on facebook. UK Riders. MyRoute-app
Have been absent from the forum for a while. Are you moving across from something like Gamin Basecamp to MRA? Or are you a GPS route planning newbie? I assume that you're planning in MRA Planner and running the route in the MRA Nav Next App? Or are you moving the route to another GPS as a GPX file? There are two sorts of points you can add to a route; the first is a shaping node, sometimes called a via-point, and the second is a via-point or way-point. The former influence the route but can be discarded by the routing algorithm if you don't ride over them. The latter must be visited, you'll be turned back if you miss them, unless you manually delete them from the route (these last two points are from my experience of using Garmins for year but I think the same applies). Both point types need to be on the actual route or certainly within 10 or so metres of it so it's vital to do a sanity check and do a low altitude pass over your route as a final check. It's easy to do this by clicking the start point and then using the magnifying glass in the pop-up to zoom in on that to check, grab the icon and move it over the route line. Now click the point icon again and click the arrow to the right to move to the next point, check and repeat. Start and end points are always way-points, you can convert any nodes to way-points along the route by clicking on the icon and expanding the dialogue to to show a button shaped like a hand. This is useful for things like a lunch stop, must see sight or rendezvous point. One of the main techniques I use is to define the start and end points of the route to start with. If it's a circular route then it's easier to add a couple of approximate routing nodes at 1/3 and 2/3 distance as well, you can always adjust these later. The hover over the route, where you need to add extra points to shape the route, until the cursor turns into a + sign, click to add. You can now drag these routing nodes to influence the route away from the current road in that area. It might be easier to do a Zoom session to demo how I do it...
