Having the track and route show in different Colours
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Long distance riders are required to follow a set route that is provided as a GPX file to import. Garmin allows you to show the route and track in different colours so that you can identify where your route may take you that diverges from the track and visually return to the track.
If MRA set different colours for track and route all riders could simply identify which one they were looking at by the colour, saving having different symbols or other methods but not of course excluding that as an option as well.
The following link is a method of changing the sizing of the colour bands so you can see both track and route when both are the same. Written by an experienced Distance rider in both the NZ and USA it illustrates what I am suggesting. This article provides the Theme mod that Garmin allows but also gives info about coloured track concept. Hope this helps.
https://www.wiltshire.net/2021/12/21/garmin-zumo-xt-theme-file-showing-route-and-tracks-overlaid/
R1200RS, Nav VI, Zumo XT2, iPhone. — Plot the Track, Go the Distance
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Hi Neil,
Thanks for the information. That's right, in the Zumo you can set the color of the track.
In the App, this is not necessary, because:
The route color of the route being navigated is blue
The original route, which lies below the blue route, is white
The track you can record has a yellow color.
A few things can be set in the app, except for the colors.In the Netherlands we also have an enthusiastic user who has edited the Garmin Themes.
https://tencats.nl/garmin-themes/Garmin Zumo XT2/XT/BMW Connected Ride Navigator/MyRouteapp (The App)
Een dag niet gelachen is een dag niet geleefd / Een route is net zo goed als deze uitgezet is. -
@Hans-van-de-Ven-MRA-Master said in Having the track and route show in different Colours:
Thanks Hans, the importance of their being different colours for each was not known on the training course I attended on zoom and it was suggested I drop the idea here. I do agree that the user having the option to choose their own colours is not important, and that was not actually my point.
However, seeing the colours exist in the App already, the ability of a user to see both the Track and Route when both coincide is very useful. I see you are using different terms to the GPX files, that is, Original route and route being navigated, in this case the white strip being wider and the blue strip being on top and slightly narrower so that both can be seen makes it easy to identify your position in regards to the Track.
Now I see your response can I make a plea for coping the GPX terms of track and route and perhaps use recorded route (or something else) as the third term.
On many of the forums I see a lot of people confused by the term Track as they think it is the backward look at where they went rather than the proper idea of track being the desired plan and route being the way you get/got to the destination. Garmin probable got this correct because of their aviation certified products. As a pro pilot I immediately knew what was meant by the terms. Many MRA web users seem to have so much trouble understanding how to get the MRA created gpa files into Garmin XT and XT2 units because they are thinking backwards with the track idea. Hope I don't offend you by saying the recording of what you do is a recording of your route, not your track, the way you are using the terms is incorrect.
Thank you for the link to your local Garmin user. I will have a look when I find a way to translate his website.
Regards NeilR1200RS, Nav VI, Zumo XT2, iPhone. — Plot the Track, Go the Distance
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@Neil-Bartlett said :
Thank you for the link to your local Garmin user. I will have a look when I find a way to translate his website.
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@Neil-Bartlett, to end the track-confusion:
There are two types of tracks. A track can be a track log or a route track.Track log: the (recorded) backward look at where they went (nice wording
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Route track: the breadcrumb path of the predetermined way you planned the route
