Route planner update

[rcs]

On the back of the email that recently came out, i tried adding a route to an existing route with the hope that the new part would be a different colour.
I can add the new route to the existing route, pick a colour and that colour is shown on the map, but when i click on the cross to finish the process the route reverts back to black, the same as the existing route.
Am i missing part of the process, the email clearly shows the added routes having different colours.

[Rob Verhoeff]

@rcs That is indeed "by design"! When you combine multiple routes and agree to merge them into one new route, it indeed becomes "a new route" that consists of just one color.

[Herko ter Horst]

@rcs You're not missing part of the process, although you may have skipped it. If you add the route initially, it will be in the list under Routes, as shown in the e-mail. There, it will have a different color. At that point, it's not actually part of the route you're working on.

If you then click the + symbol to prepend or append it to your existing route, it will become part of the actual route, it will no longer be in that "Routes" list and it will no longer have a different color.

The new functionality is not intended to make parts of the actual route a different color, but to show multiple routes at the same time, in one image.

[rcs]

@Herko-ter-Horst must have misread the email, i thought the routes would be a different colour, similar to base camp. The email clearly shows separate routes with different colours

[Herko ter Horst]

@rcs Yes, but those have not been added to the route you're working on using the '+' button. You'll notice: no waypoints are visible on those coloured routes. Only the black route (which is the one you're working on) shows waypoints.

If you then click on the '+' button for one of the coloured routes, it will actually add the waypoints of that route to the route you're working on, at which point it's just part of the route and the color of that line is black.

As far as I know, that's similar to the functionality in Basecamp: if you're creating a route, it enables you to see other routes, but those are not actually part of the route you're creating.

[Rob Verhoeff]

@Herko-ter-Horst said in Route planner update:

As far as I know, that's similar to the functionality in Basecamp: if you're creating a route, it enables you to see other routes, but those are not actually part of the route you're creating.

You're completely right!

[Frappawotsit]

It's important to note there are two separate functions:

1. Viewing additional Routes Overlaid on your Current route:
   When you have a route open in edit mode, and choose to add 1 or a number of additional routes, you are only "viewing" the addition routes overlaid on your current route being edited. For this reason, each additional route being overlaid, is a different colour, so you can easily see the start and end of each of the routes.

2. Merging Additional routes with current route:
   If you wish to merge the additional routes into the route you are currently editing, you can do, and the net result is a single new route showing your previous route plus the merged additions, but importantly, they are all now just one route, and therefore the single default colour of black.

If you were to again display additional routes to be overlaid, they again would be different colours as in 1) above, and if you merged those, they would become like 2) above... etc etc.

[rcs]

@Frappawotsit clear and simple, thank you