Animate - show distance with the red dot
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It would help with route planning if the distance travelled could be shown with the Animate feature.
For me, when planning a long distance trip and knowing the possible distance out of a tank of fuel, to be able to go along the route to say the 200mile mark and look for a suitable petrol station near that point.
The same could apply to looking for accommodation or somewhere to eat.At the moment, the only way that I can do this is drop a waypoint at a random location along the route and check the distance from the waypoint menu, then move it to the 200 mile mark.
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It would help with route planning if the distance travelled could be shown with the Animate feature.
For me, when planning a long distance trip and knowing the possible distance out of a tank of fuel, to be able to go along the route to say the 200mile mark and look for a suitable petrol station near that point.
The same could apply to looking for accommodation or somewhere to eat.At the moment, the only way that I can do this is drop a waypoint at a random location along the route and check the distance from the waypoint menu, then move it to the 200 mile mark.
@Wallace-Shackleton in the web planning at the bottum of the screen you’ll find a slider. You can move that slider to the 200 mls you wanted
Honda Goldwing GL1500,
Honda Silverwing GL 650
DMD2 T865X 8 inch Android tablet using MRA next for navigation
Garmin XT (almost in the cupboard)
Samsung S20FE mounted on a Quadlock and using Android Auto in my car -
@Wallace-Shackleton in the web planning at the bottum of the screen you’ll find a slider. You can move that slider to the 200 mls you wanted
@Marinus-van-Deudekom said in Animate - show distance with the red dot:
@Wallace-Shackleton in the web planning at the bottum of the screen you’ll find a slider. You can move that slider to the 200 mls you wanted
Where can you see the 200 miles? (or where the 150?)
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If you move the slider on the right end of that slider you’ll see the distance
Honda Goldwing GL1500,
Honda Silverwing GL 650
DMD2 T865X 8 inch Android tablet using MRA next for navigation
Garmin XT (almost in the cupboard)
Samsung S20FE mounted on a Quadlock and using Android Auto in my car -
I see the total miles or kilometers number there, as well as on the top left.
I must have misunderstood the tip. I thought you move the slider to 150km, for example, and then you can see exactly where the 150km are on the map.
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What sense does the slider or the kilometer indication make there?
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If you move the slider on the right end of that slider you’ll see the distance
@Marinus-van-Deudekom said in Animate - show distance with the red dot:
If you move the slider on the right end of that slider you’ll see the distance!
Nice tip Marinus, but it also doesn't work for me; tested in several browsers.
At the right end of the slider scale, the total length of the route is populated (same as in top left corner in route frame).
It doesn't matter, if I start animation, or move the slider manually - I can see a red dot moving on my route - but the total distance in the rigth end of the scale is still the same. I can't find any information about distance in Km or Hrs from start of route to place of red dot.Same behavior in routes and in tracklogs.
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If you move the slider on the right end of that slider you’ll see the distance
@Marinus-van-Deudekom The distance shown is the total distance of the route.
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Sorry everybody. I saw the route changing while I moved the slider but...... my mistake the km on the far right stays the same
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It would help with route planning if the distance travelled could be shown with the Animate feature.
For me, when planning a long distance trip and knowing the possible distance out of a tank of fuel, to be able to go along the route to say the 200mile mark and look for a suitable petrol station near that point.
The same could apply to looking for accommodation or somewhere to eat.At the moment, the only way that I can do this is drop a waypoint at a random location along the route and check the distance from the waypoint menu, then move it to the 200 mile mark.
@Wallace-Shackleton
To verify, just check the kilometers on the waypoint list on the left — the first 200 are written out, and for the rest, the calculation isn’t that difficult (200–400–600).Alternatively, but only with the Gold subscription, you can use the calculator for the distance between two points.
