The ‘expand’ function is really useful for a number of reasons. I was wondering though if it might be improved by offering what I’d call ‘expand 2’?
Imagine an A to B route, from Calais to Rome, a distance of 1,000 miles. Naturally, this will only have two waypoints being: A at Calais and B at Rome.
Now imagine (for example only) that the rider would like to break their journey up into 10 days of 100 miles distance each. Expanding the number of waypoints to 12 does not space the 10 intermediate points equally between A and B.
My idea for ‘expand 2’ would be to allow the rider to chose the spacing of the intermediate points. For example, the question asked by MyRoute would be:
“Insert waypoint every xxx miles”, xxx being the gap the rider wanted. The rider would then have a suitably divided route.
The rider could then use the ‘split’ function to break the route up into its 10 sections, one for each day.
Where I think this might be useful is where:
A. A rider, as is sometimes the case, cannot get to grips with A to B distances. We see this in lots of forums, where people say, “Tell me Calais to Rome” but with no clear idea as to how far that might be or how to break it up into sensible chunks.
B. When a rider is sent a copy of a route (sometimes of several thousand miles) but it’s not broken up at all. Inserting a point every say, 250 or 500 miles, might help the rider imagine it better.
C. Having the 250 or 500 mile points pop-up in a different colour, might be nice, too.
Richard