Bulk change of Shaping Points to Via Points - Feature request

[Arno 0]

This functionality is not available in MRA. Can’t you export the route to a gpx file and then edit this file with a text editor? I think you must be able to see the difference between a routing and a via point in the file itself. After editing, save and import the file in MRA.

[Dae 0]

I too wish there was a multi select option in the route planner. Sometimes I want to make bulk changes or delete a number of points in a route. Doing it one at a time is laborious.

[Rob Verhoeff]

@Will-Brooks I think that multiple selection of waypoints can be handy indeed! I sometimes edit an existing route and want to delete the last or first part of a route. For now you've to delete one point at a time instead of a selection of waypoints.

[Will Brooks]

@Con-Hennekens The reason I want majority or all Via points is because I want the audio prompt that goes with a Via point through the Garmin. I am indeed designing scenic routes but I also lead a lot of group rides and use Via Points to give me an audio warning for things like placing markers, gravel or potholes where I need to slow the group down etc. It's also great to have an audio prompt so I can concentrate on the road rather than the screen and know I'm following my correct route. I tend to plot a route and then split it into a number of separate routes for each "leg". Eg Start to first coffee stop, coffee stop to fuel stop etc. I don't tend to have any leg much more than 90-120mins of riding so I find that I can work with the 30 Via point limit on a Garmin route with no problems so when I stop I then load the next leg of the route. It also has the added benefit that on long routes, if the Garmin has a "tech moment" that needs a reboot or similar I then just have to load up that leg and can get back on track far quicker and easier.

[Con Hennekens]

@Will-Brooks, nice to learn about your methods! Is in a zumo the audioprompt limited to via-points?

Some more people understood your question better than I did I think that improving the web-service is a step taken after the release of Navigation Next and the implementation of some of the inevitable feedback. So who knows.

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@Will-Brooks

Hi Will, Garmin allows 28 way points (hard points) in a route. If you put more than 28 via points in your route, the Zumo will split them up

[Will Brooks]

@Hans-van-de-Ven-MRA-Master Interesting! Today I rode a route with 29 hard (via) points on my XT and the route wasn't split. It definitely does display the behaviour you mention if I have 30 points, hence me saying about working around the limit.

[Will Brooks]

@Con-Hennekens I think so but not 100% sure as I don't really use shaping points. On my XT, whatever I name the Via point in MRA, is spoken by the XT. So if my via point is named just with the address, the XT will speak according to the prompt - "In 200yds" or "arriving at" and then say the address. If I name a via point "Shell Fuel Stop", it will actually say "arriving at Shell Fuel Stop"

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@Will-Brooks

Oke, thanks.

[Bob Harvey]

@Will-Brooks said in Bulk change of Shaping Points to Via Points - Feature request:

After planning a route I'd like a way to bulk change route points to make them all Via Points.

I like the way it is by default - because a Via Point that is not placed exactly in the center of the road makes you U-turn to the Via Point.

And sometimes there is a variance in map, or road slightly changed, and you did ride through the point but the GPS still wants you to do a U-turn. Then your whole route is screwed, gloves on, fumbling with the GPS.

Using Garmin Basecamp there is a video showing how to avoid this grief by selecting all the middle points on a route, and change them to "non alerting" (shaping points). I am glad that MRA does that by default, and the website for MRA is brilliant the way you can click along a route and only the start and end are "hard points" that must be traveled.