@Con-Hennekens Thanks again for your fast reply.
You're absolutely right; shaping points and via points define a route and are equivalent within the route definition.
But beside of the route definition, they are not equivalent.
A shaping point should simply defines the route's path. Even though you can add additional information to it in the MRA Routeplanner (color/text/icon, etc.) - for whatever reason. And since it’s really only meant to define the route’s path, there is a reason you can set the option in the MRA Navigator that it can be skipped automatically which -in my opinion- should be the default setting. That’s why I also don’t see a benefit why a shaping point appears at all during MRA navigation in the upper right corner.
A via point must or should be visited because it’s important to the planner for whatever reason (break, coffee, refueling, hotel, etc.).
That’s why I asked about different icon sizes in the MRA Routeplanner - because they aren’t all equally important.
And yes, maybe I sometimes use too many shaping points, but sometimes it’s necessary to define the exact route - and then things get confusing.
But that’s just my opinion, and I’d love to learn more about the benefit why you can assign additional information to a shaping point in the MRA Routeplanner - information that, in my opinion, is only relevant for a via point.
Even though I’m new to MRA and certainly don’t know many of its features yet, I really like the program
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