Shaping points and Via points

[Jörgen]

Hi,

Please help me to understand. I know the difference between shaping and via points and how they work, e.g., on a Garmin and not working differently for a TomTom.
I have been told that there is also a difference for Navigation Next.
But I did not notice any difference in NN.
What is the difference? Something to do with how waypoints will be automatically skipped?

[Nick Carthew]

@Jörgen Via points will not be skipped automatically if you have set Automatically skip waypoints.
Also, notes for via points are read aloud at 2km but shaping point notes are read aloud at 750m.

[Jörgen]

@Nick-Carthew said in Shaping points and Via points:

Via points will not be skipped automatically if you have set Automatically skip waypoints

Hi, thanks. I will try this, respectively I will try is again.

[Con Hennekens]

@Jörgen, Honestly, I am amazed by you asking this. This can't be new stuff to you?

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Con-Hennekens maybe it has something to do with the date

[Jörgen]

@Con-Hennekens said in Shaping points and Via points:

@Jörgen, Honestly, I am amazed by you asking this. This can't be new stuff to you?

Yeah, I can imagine. I was already familiar with both features to some extent. The reason I’m asking is that the automatic skip feature didn’t work for me that way. And I just wanted to confirm that I’m understanding this correctly. I’ll have to create a test route and give it another try.

[Martin Wilcke]

@Jörgen said in Shaping points and Via points:

The reason I’m asking is that the automatic skip feature didn’t work for me that way

If you primarily use shaping points for planning rather than navigation, try the "routes as track" navigation option and toggle "Use all waypoints" off.

You get rid of all SPs, a clean look and perfect focus on your VIAs.

I like this feature when I have a route with plenty of SPs just to nail it to a specific path (typically when I convert a route-track into a route).

[Herman Veldhuizen]

@Martin-Wilcke I wish I could use MRA like that. I also would like to use shaping points just to shape the route and nothing more (no need to have ETA info for them). But the fact that via points are not skipped prevents me from doing this. Hopefully one day MRA can pick up the route when I am back on it again (meaning skip any point which is behind me).