Skipping a Via point...

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Lenny-O it has been this way since the beginning. Only shaping points van be skipped automaticly

[Lenny O]

Thanks, guys! I guess I assumed that VIAs can not be skipped in either manual or auto mode...... Duh!
Believe it or not in a couple of years I am using the app, I NEVER needed to skip a VIA

[Herman Veldhuizen]

I hope one day via points can be skipped. I use shaping points to work around this limitation. This has a side effect : all shaping points are visible, also those which do not represent anything useful and are only added to shape a route.
note that via points can be skipped when you add a diversion to avoid a roadblock.

[Lenny O]

@Herman-Veldhuizen said:

note that via points can be skipped when you add a diversion to avoid a roadblock.

Very good point! Thank you!

[Mzokk]

@Herman-Veldhuizen Auto Skipping Via points makes no sense. You either want to visit somewhere Via point or get their by certain roads (shaping point). If you are putting in waypoints at locations you don’t actually want to stop at, use shaping points. Keep via points that can only be skipped manually if the user chooses not to visit a point otherwise places the user wants to visit could be accidentally missed.

[Herman Veldhuizen]

@Mzokk As long as there is a way to a) hide points which are only created to shape the route and to b) auto skip other points which actually represent optional stops. Thats whats I need for my use cases, period. The most logical way is to have anoption to make via points auto-skippable so it makes a lot of sense.

[Hubert Thoring]

@lenny-o
Skipping via points is a useful function because sometimes the time is not enough or the weather does something different from it than planned.

Pressing the function on the map on a suitable WP or SP is wonderful to drive there quickly and directly.

[Hubert Thoring]

@lenny-o :

How about reading the MRA manual in peace .. many things are explained well there. After that there are fewer questions

[Lenny O]

@Hubert-Thoring What makes you think I didn't...... Sometimes people forget or mis-interpret the instructions or text. That's why this forum exists, no?

[Con Hennekens]

@Lenny-O said:

Believe it or not in a couple of years I am using the app, I NEVER needed to skip a VIA

That's not strange at all, since VIA points are ultimately set there to be visited .
I want to add a note though: simply driving through a VIA will register it as visited. You do not actually need to stop or skip manually of you hit them of course (like with any route point).

[Con Hennekens]

@Herman-Veldhuizen said:

As long as there is a way to a) hide points which are only created to shape the route and to b) auto skip other points which actually represent optional stops. Thats whats I need for my use cases, period. The most logical way is to have anoption to make via points auto-skippable so it makes a lot of sense.

Your use case is rather special of course and not completely in line for what scenic riders need. It's more of a logistical feature. Personally, if I see the many questions about VIA points, I think such an option would raise much more confusion then there already is.

Maybe a toggle on a shapingpoint to exclude it from the ETA information would help you?