Problem with BOAT routes recalculating

[Nin]

Hi folks

Just back from a few days on the TET in SE England. I discovered after a few hours on the first day, that MRA was sanitising the route for us quite considerably.

There were big chunks of BOAT that were missed, because MRA didn’t recognise them as legal roads and diverted us around them.

Now I’m fully aware it’s likely to be user error in my part, and will investigate accordingly. But wondered if anyone else had a similar issue and how you resolved it?

Also noted that my Samsung Tab is getting a bit slow and laggy - and looking at a replacement.

Cheers aye!

Nin


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[Wapping]

I have edited the thread’s title, Nin.

MyRoute (as with most other gps routing software or apps) can only route you down roads that it knows to exist. I can only assume that the ‘BOAT’ (byway open to all traffic) ‘road’ was not shown on the map?

One thing to maybe check though, is that you have nor set your preferences to exclude unmade roads or some other setting which might affect the app’s performance.

PS You can create routes in MyRoute using straight lines from A to B to C, which might be some sort of workaround, perhaps?

 

[Berin]

MRA can’t create a route that includes non routable roads easily. You can create a route using the “offroad” setting but it’s pretty tedious to use since each waypoint has to be placed manually, no point and click or rubberbanding like you get in Basecamp - might be easier on a Mac but I use an iPad. Annoyingly Apple Pencil doesn’t really make it easier, I had visions of using the pencil to place a waypoint but that doesn’t work.

Plus for the UK there are no OS maps, so it’s not much use as it doesn’t know a BOAT from a piece of cheese.

You can import tracks like the TET but not edit them as tracks, so this is only useful to use MRA to send a track to a device. The track isn’t altered in any way.

To edit a track you have to change it to a route, and then it may alter the track to make it routable. You can edit it by moving and adding waypoints but every way point must be named, even if you just move it. All new way points are added at the end of the track, so you have to manually edit the waypoint order, painful if you have a few hundred.

In short, it’s crap for tracks.


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[Nin]

Thanks Berin

I used the manual method you described for our trip to France in June, using aerial photos and their equivalent of OS maps to get the routes right.

But

In short, it’s crap for tracks.

Is the conclusion I’ve come to myself.

What do you use?