Different route colour for later parts on same screen.

[Erik Plaggenborg]

I guess what the question is is that it would be nice to see different tracks in different colors. This is a feature on the Garmin devices. All your downloaded routes/tracks on your device can be given a different color.

But thats in case of a standalone device and not MRA which is webbased and you can have a library full of routes in your account.

But maybe its possible to make a map with routes/tracks of your trip your planning to ride and show them in the while navigating. When i was using a Garmin i found it a nice feature.

[Nick Elsom 0]

Hi I refer to occasions when your route crosses itself or you come back down the same road later. It's no big deal of course and yes direction arrows are good enough. It was a suggestion just based on better clarity when reading the map. If its been developed to change colour for the part of a route you have already passed then maybe worthwhile for upcoming parts leaving the blue nav line clear for where your heading immediately.

[Con Hennekens]

@Nick-Elsom-0, yes indeed, I think it would be confusing if the line you are following would suddenly be another color. In the web planner it helps to play with the transparency of the route line.

[Brian McG]

@Nick-Elsom-0 I have been pleasantly surprised by how well MRA handles routes with crossings & routes that reuse the same road in the opposite direction.
Crossing routes & there/back routes are not something I would even attempt with a Garmin as they seem to fail pretty much 100% of the time with such routes, normally using a Garmin I would have to split the route into 2 or 3 parts to avoid the crossings or there/back route being in the same part of the route

With MRA for junctions where the route path crosses what I find useful is to place points on the exits of the crossing where the route paths exit the crossing.
I know which point number I am due to hit next so as I approach the crossing I can clearly see which blue path is the one I want to take as it is indicated by the next point number on the exit , that way I dont get confused over which blue line I should be following

I think there & back paths are tricky to display as there are multiple competing paths wanting to use the same part of the screen, not sure any scheme is going to make everybody happy

[Nick Elsom 0]

@Con-Hennekens Apologies Im not great at explaining sometimes. See attached where I am due to go straight over the roundabout but later in the journey I'm heading back the other way. It's still not the best example but you should get what I mean from it. I'd rather not see the same blue line for later parts of the journey only what my immediate direction is.

[Nick Elsom 0]

@Brian-McG I agree 100%. Handles much better than TomTom also, which was my go to app.
I'll use the suggestion of a points on exits, good idea. Thanks

[Con Hennekens]

@Nick-Elsom-0, yes I see what you mean. I think it would be great, but at the same time it is difficult to pinpoint when to show or not to show the route line, and from what distance on it is considered to be ahead enough to disable the line and when not. If you would go 180 on that roundabout where would you stop displaying the route line ahead? Especially in your example I see no problem, because they don't really overlap. Do you happen to know any other app that works like what you propose?

[Nick Elsom 0]

@Con-Hennekens Yes it did it on my tomtom truck nav when I hand a number of drops. Not sure how they calculated when the colour should change though. Worked well because I was regularly crossing routes. I guess most people aren't doing that though.

[Brian McG]

@Con-Hennekens I think this was also possible with the Garmin Zumos, from what I remember the route path was made up of different segments,
the path you had already traversed, the immediate next segment & then future segments, you could edit the colours of each segment by hacking the html,
I mainly used it for adjusting the widths of the path segments so I could also see the edges of the track poking out the sides of the route path, similar to the white line in mRA

[Robert Laudensack]

I agree It several time confused me that it was not clear that the other line was later. I sometimes plan "8" or e.g. when i want to visit certain spots (landmarks, historical sites, etc.) I have to reuse some section of the route several times, and the driving indicators are not always clear.
You could e.g. gradient the color of the road, so that the next couple of meters look a bit differnt shade than the ones I will ride some time later.