I can’t get MRA Routeplanner (website) to work

[glenn2926]

Oh come on!

You sound like a 13 year old girl having a tiz. It's Saturday afternoon, get a drink and chill. Come back to it another time.

I don't really have much other time at the moment so thought i'd have a look at MRA. It's a bit clunky to use but I guess it's all there will be once Bascamp stops working. I do like Calimoto but it's no longer free and it takes where it thinks you should go rather than where I want to go. I'm certainly not finding MRA very user friendly.

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Mild edit to move the question over emailing MyRoute routes to friends, into a standalone thread.

Richard

 

[the woodster]

Thanks again, I'm getting there, slowly but I am better with this than I was a few hours ago. I have managed to send a route to my old Zumo 660 and it has accepted it. I'v e changed the colour of some short routes too. I'll get there eventually but like you said you do. I'll continue to use Basecamp too.

Just a friendly suggestion. Read the MRA support info about downloading and running a route on a Garmin. It will save you a lot of angst and frustration when riding the route.

 

[Wapping]

One tip.

When asking a series of questions, it’s often best to start a separate post for each. It doesn’t take long to do. That way the questions and answers don’t become jumbled up with one another or worse, remain unanswered.

Post #11 is a good example. Lots of questions, some of which inevitably get ignored or never answered, as they get lost. I may well have a go at editing the post for you, in the hope of getting you the answers.

 

[Wapping]

OP, hopefully you are now along the way towards getting to grips with MyRoute. As someone who, like you, was a long term fan of BaseCamp, I too had to learn how MyRoute worked. To help in this, I found MyRoute’s dedicated forum very helpful. Often it was not to ask a question (though I did) but sometimes just to see what questions other people had asked, which helped me to learn.

One helpful thing to maybe get your head around, is that BaseCamp ‘lived’ inside your home computer. MyRoute is fundamentally different, in that it ‘lives’ on the internet’s Cloud. This has lots of advantages, not least as you can access it on anything from a laptop to an iPad to a smart phone, from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. It does though come with a couple of quirks or disadvantages.

1. If you delete something, there is no bringing it back. That said, MyRoute have just launched their ‘Salvage’ tool, which gives you 30 days to rescue something.

2. If you want to share a route with friends (see the thread I separated out for you) you have to download (Save as) the file from the Cloud first, as that is where it ‘lives’. In reality, this is little different to ‘Save as’ or ‘Share’ on a home computer, the file is simply coming from somewhere out on the internet, not from a box on your desk.

What is the best way to learn?

1. Don’t try to do everything at once.

2. Create a simple route, say of 50 miles around your house and use it on your GPX device, riding on roads you know.

If you can get 2 to work, it’ll work just as well on routes for every holiday or jaunt you ever go on.

3. Then move on to find out how the filing and folder system works *and, not least, all the other neat things MyRoute can do.

In reality, if you can use BaseCamp, you will be able to use MyRoute, not least as it creates routes in much the same way. It just looks a bit different, that’s all.




* That is no different to finding out (as I had to) the difference between using a PC and then moving to a Mac. Maybe the biggest difference is that, as MyRoute is ‘Cloud’ based, you have to use their method of filing and folders. But, once you twig it and, put crudely, accept it, it’s fine.