Off-road mode ?

[Arsey]

I’m planning a couple of routes using off-road mode to plan some of the TET routes near my place in Brittany.

Never used off-road mode but it’s good in that you can follow tracks shown in OpenStreet Map such as highlighted below in red.

The only annoying thing is that if you add waypoints, it just straight lines between them like this

So you’d need to add many waypoints to more accurately follow a track :

But the most annoying thing about off-road is that it doesn’t show you a distance or time for a route :

Has anybody used it on bike and were there any other issues ?

Ta

 

[Berin]

That’s new! Looks a good feature.

As to time, much longer than you think!


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[Wapping]

By ‘Off Road Mode’ do you mean using this button here:

 

[Arsey]

By ‘Off Road Mode’ do you mean using this button here:

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No ,this one

Which is accessed by selecting ‘Toolkit’ then ‘Offroad’.

Might achieve the same though ?

 

[Wapping]

Thank you.

I think that is new.

It does indeed mean that MyRoute can now create very good ‘Off road’ routes.

 

[Wapping]

If you ‘Save as’ and then import the track into something like Pocket Earth, it’ll give you the mileage.







It’s (vaguely) interesting that the off-road waypoints are named, according to the nearest proper road that the algorithm can find.

 

[Barnoe]

What happens if these tracks end up being just footpaths?
Spinning through and ripping up turf as you go past hikers isn't going to be popular

 

[Arsey]

If you ‘Save as’ and then import the track into something like Pocket Earth, it’ll give you the mileage.



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It’s (vaguely) interesting that the off-road waypoints are named, according to the nearest proper road that the algorithm can find.

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Will have a look at Pocket Earth.

So, I made up a very short route down a track liver here that is shown on OSM map but not on Google etc.

This was the route :

Waypoints 3 to 6 is a track .

Took the cage, natch and headed off to the track,
viewed from waypoint 3 which should be a left turn

BUT it recalculates and stays on road and tries to get as near as possible to each waypoint .

Waypoint 4 has even disappeared.

I checked settings and saw that ‘allow track navigation for routes’ wasnt selected. So I selected it but still no better.

So , the question is how do you navigate an off-road route ? I can’t see anyway to change the default map in the app to OSM.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

We always navigate them as tracks (never as routes with voice/arrow prompts) off-road & just follow the magenta line on the screen and sometimes at a junction in the track you have to use manual zoom
That’s on a Garmin Montana

 

[Berin]

I made a track with unpaved roads, and I do remember I tried this before and gave it up as it’s very tedious to click to confirm each way point - the track creation in Basecamp or memory map etc is much better. MRA will be ok for creating very short tracks only.

However. I saved it as GPX 1.1, switched back from route lab (web) to the MRA app and found the test.

I didn’t actually navigate the track but did skip through each waypoint and it worked fine. Points 9-16 are unpaved.

Note it gave me both distance and time, though the time is unrealistic.

I used the osm maps.

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