How to organise the Trip Planner?

[RichardD]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I cannot find the answer.

I have many routes - planned in Basecamp, and more recently MRA - and I have imported quite a few into my Zumo XT.

I now find the Trip Planner is rather untidy, and it's tedious to find a route.

It would be great if there was a possibility to create folders in the trip planner, or at least to see the routes in alphabetic order. As far as I can see, they are currently ordered in sequence of proximity to current location - although that's just a guess.

I suppose the alternative is to manage the number of routes stored in the trip planner by deleting and reimporting as required - but again, that seems to be more of a workaround than a solution.

Any advice gratefully received.

 

[Wapping]

It would be great if there was a possibility to create folders in the trip planner, or at least to see the routes in alphabetic order.

Not possible, as far as I know.

The question is, why do you need / have to have lots of routes held on the device?

 

[Wapping]

alternative is to manage the number of routes stored in the trip planner by deleting and reimporting as required

Me?

I’d cut all your routes into MyRoute, organised into folders or however you like to store them.

Then, use MyRoute to send a route or routes from your extensive library to your XT, as and when you need to.

 

[RichardD]

Not possible, as far as I know.

The question is, why do you need / have to have lots of routes held on the device?

Laziness, probably.

I have about a dozen training routes and then a few more social routes. I don't use them frequently, so it's handy to have them as reference.
When I'm on a tour I do tend to clear out everything but the tour routes, so I guess that's the answer.

As I'm asking daft questions - here's another one:

I have started you a fresh thread for your unrelated question

Richard

Thread 'Displaying tracks - Or not'

Apr 24, 2025

As I'm asking daft questions - here's another one:

When I import routes, I generally import the route and the track. By default, the track is visible on the XT map, even if the route/track is not active. In order to turn off the track display, the only way I can see to do that, is to delete the track. Am I missing something?

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I have started you a fresh thread.

Richard

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