How to Navigate Route as a Track?

[Volker Lattauer]

I have the same question. If I pick an existing route with Via and Shaping points, where do I tell my android to navigate as a track ?

My understanding, so far, was, that tracks do not have waypoints other than Start and Finish.

You say one can proceed to the next logical point on the track - how can that happen when there are no points?

[Rob Verhoeff]

@Lenny-O Go to the nav-settings in the menu.

Menu (top left) > Settings (profile icon top right) > Navigation setting > Functional. See picture below. You can choose to disable 'Automatic recalculations'. In that case you have to navigate back to the track yourself if you deviate. Set toggle to green to allow track navigation for routes.

[LennyO]

Thank you, Rob!
That helps!
Though I would think that it may be way more convenient to make that decision on the individual Route level. Current way makes it sort of "Global".
I mean that once you call the Route on the screen, just before you start Navigating, would be nice to choose how you want to do it, as a Route or as a Track.
Also, will the voice guidance work when navigating Route as a Track?

[Herko ter Horst]

@Lenny-O said in How to Navigate Route as a Track?:

Also, will the voice guidance work when navigating Route as a Track?

Yes, it will.

[Thomas Neumeyer]

@Herko-ter-Horst Sorry for the maybe dumb question. I can not change the settings. The selection switches are grey.

Regards

[Rob Verhoeff]

@Lenny-O said in How to Navigate Route as a Track?:

I mean that once you call the Route on the screen, just before you start Navigating, would be nice to choose how you want to do it, as a Route or as a Track.

This is how it used to be! Now, you just flip the toggle. Why would you want to ride a route as a track one day and as a regular route the next? In fact, I think I’ll soon be using route navigation less and switching entirely to track navigation. I’ll create the route in the planner, and when you start navigating, you can be sure you’re following your route exactly as you planned it.

[LennyO]

Thank you, Herko and Rob!
Rob, I don't know if I would always want to ... did not try it yet.
But what are we losing if we switch to the Track navigation vs Route navigation?
There has to be something... Comments on via points? Pictures? IDK...

BTW, is this option Membership Level related?

[LennyO]

@Thomas-Neumeyer check the version of the app you have. Maybe you need to reload? Also, are you signed in?

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Thomas-Neumeyer they cannot be changed while navigating
Open the settings when you aren’t driving!

[LennyO]

@Corjan-Meijerink Corjan, does the option to navigate a Route as a Track have anything to do with the Membership Level?
Thanks!

[Thomas Neumeyer]

@Corjan-Meijerink I was sitting on the couch

[Rob Verhoeff]

@Lenny-O I presume you have a subscription to the navigationpart, so no...

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Lenny-O no, definitely not

[Con Hennekens]

@Thomas-Neumeyer, that maybe, but you started the navigation module In cannot be changed while navigation is running.

[Con Hennekens]

@Lenny-O, no, it does not. Its a just an extra feature of the existing subscription

[Martin Kjell]

Maybe I'm doing it wrong. But if I deviate from the route (as a track) with some shaping points, it still wants to reroute me back. I was stubborn and after around 10 km it told me it skipped that waypoint. Is it expected behavior. Tomtom for instance just tells me closest way back to the track in case I deviate.

[Con Hennekens]

@Martin-Kjell, Yes that's expected behaviour, if you keep being stubborn and don't follow the suggestion... What you need to do in such a case, is long-press your own chosen point of re-entry. Then it will guide you to there, insead of back to a point you obviously don't want.

[Martin Kjell]

@Con-Hennekens Ok Thanks! But reading the manual states that shaping points will be ingored during "route as a track". And Waypoint (via points) is never ignored. A bit contradictaional to me, or (trying to be humble) I'm probably misinterpreting the instructions. In other words, route as a track does not seem to ignore shaping points.
E.g. I would like to point out a route with say for instance 10 shaping points. But circumstances like weather, change of mind, road work etc. makes me pick another route and needed to ignore shaping point #4. Since Ive passed it I would no longer be interested in that one since it's just a shaping point. But MRA "Route as a track" tries to guide me back and after a few tries gives up. For me, theres no difference from normal route. What am I missing? Eager to learn and understand.

[Con Hennekens]

@Martin-Kjell said:

route as a track does not seem to ignore shaping points.

But it does. Instead of leading you back to a shaping point, it leads you back to the track. Depending on the density of your shaping points and the layout of the roads, the difference can sometimes be not so obvious.

The way you describe sound perfectly logical. Navigation will lead you back to the track, sometimes that can be through a previous route point, but that does not mean it took it into consideration. Since MRA is a scenic navigation app, it tries to have you drive as much of the preplanned route as possible and only skipps parts of it after multiple redirections.

[Herman Veldhuizen]

MRA prioritizes points over the track (or route), also if the point is (just) a shaping point and you have specified that you want to use all points. So it sends you back if you missed one, even if you are already back on the track.

Corjan wrote this about the release following 5.1 (and I hope that a solution for the issue above will be found, as it is my biggest issue):

• Rework some internal algorithms such as searching for fuel stations and skipping waypoints

• Generic track navigation improvements