A really useful function, which I’d not played about with before.
Split function (available with MRA Gold)
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Er go on then, what does it er split?
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I tried it yesterday for a trip from Berchtesgaden to the South of France - into three pieces. Worked very well. 
Because I use a Mac, I'm Airdropping to my iPhone and using Garmin Drive to xfer to the Zumo XT and sending to my friends with Whatsapp so they can do the same.
Because I use a Mac, I'm Airdropping to my iPhone and using Garmin Drive to xfer to the Zumo XT and sending to my friends with Whatsapp so they can do the same.
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To use the example of the route I created in the opening post, which is nearly 2,000 miles long and has about 200 shaping points. Obviously nobody is ever going to load it into any device as one single, undivided 2,000 mile route. I want to ride the route at some time but I want to ride no more than 200 miles in any one day. In other words, I would like to ‘spilt’ the route into 10 individual daily segments.
All I did was hit the ‘split’ button and then run down the list of waypoint, clicking on the single individual points which sat at near enough 200, 400, 600 miles and so on. MRA, retained the original route but then additionally dished up 10 separate individual routes, ‘split’ at the 10 points. With some fine tuning, I could then use the 10 routes, one on each day.
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Ah ok I get it, thanks
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Jolly good.
Play around with it. You can’t break it.
It can also be useful for other things.
Imagine a journey from Calais to Rome. Start by asking MyRoute to give you the A to B route, ie. from Calais to Rome. This will have only two known points in it, the start and end, 1,000 miles apart. Let’s then pretend you wanted to make the journey over 10 reasonably equal mileage days of 100 miles.
Use the ‘expand’ function to insert say, 30 waypoints. You might need to play around with this number a little, just to get the spacing near enough correct. Maybe taking it up to say, 80. Why? Because MyRoute does not ’expand’ by placing waypoints equally. In other words, in this example, expanding this 1,000 mile route from two to 12, does not place an intermediate shaping point every 100 miles. Use the undo and redo buttons to change the number of ‘expanded’ points until you are happy. It follows that the more you ‘expand’ the number of waypoints, the more flexibility you’ll have when it comes to splitting.
Now use the ‘split’ tool to split the route into your ten days at 100 miles a day.
There are other ways to play around with it too. Say, for example, some kind fellow on UKGSer sent you a single A to B route from Calais to Rome, giving you a journey he’d made, This might be in response to a question like “Tell me how to get from Calais to Rome”. In his single route, let’s pretend the fellow took the motorway from Calais to Metz (that is more than 100 miles) in one day but then took twisty roads all the way to Rome thereafter. You could insert a waypoint at Metz and ask MyRoute to split the route there, giving you a standalone Calais to Metz route by motorway for day one and the balance of Metz to Rome on a separate standalone twisty basis, too. You can now expand the Metz to Rome route, to break it up Into chunks that suit you.
Play around with it. You can’t break it.
It can also be useful for other things.
Imagine a journey from Calais to Rome. Start by asking MyRoute to give you the A to B route, ie. from Calais to Rome. This will have only two known points in it, the start and end, 1,000 miles apart. Let’s then pretend you wanted to make the journey over 10 reasonably equal mileage days of 100 miles.
Use the ‘expand’ function to insert say, 30 waypoints. You might need to play around with this number a little, just to get the spacing near enough correct. Maybe taking it up to say, 80. Why? Because MyRoute does not ’expand’ by placing waypoints equally. In other words, in this example, expanding this 1,000 mile route from two to 12, does not place an intermediate shaping point every 100 miles. Use the undo and redo buttons to change the number of ‘expanded’ points until you are happy. It follows that the more you ‘expand’ the number of waypoints, the more flexibility you’ll have when it comes to splitting.
Now use the ‘split’ tool to split the route into your ten days at 100 miles a day.
There are other ways to play around with it too. Say, for example, some kind fellow on UKGSer sent you a single A to B route from Calais to Rome, giving you a journey he’d made, This might be in response to a question like “Tell me how to get from Calais to Rome”. In his single route, let’s pretend the fellow took the motorway from Calais to Metz (that is more than 100 miles) in one day but then took twisty roads all the way to Rome thereafter. You could insert a waypoint at Metz and ask MyRoute to split the route there, giving you a standalone Calais to Metz route by motorway for day one and the balance of Metz to Rome on a separate standalone twisty basis, too. You can now expand the Metz to Rome route, to break it up Into chunks that suit you.
Now that looks a very useful function, never realised it was there.
I knew it was there but couldn’t really see the point as it sort of randomly split it, thanks to Richard I can now see it’s use
No problem.
I only really started using it when I made the long Spanish route. Whilst I can imagine 2,000 miles on a map and know roughly how long it would take to ride along it, it was useful to break it up into individual daily chunks (standalone routes) which suited me.
I have suggested to MyRoute that they offer ‘Split 2’ where the rider chooses the interval mileage to split an undivided route at.
I only really started using it when I made the long Spanish route. Whilst I can imagine 2,000 miles on a map and know roughly how long it would take to ride along it, it was useful to break it up into individual daily chunks (standalone routes) which suited me.
I have suggested to MyRoute that they offer ‘Split 2’ where the rider chooses the interval mileage to split an undivided route at.
So at each split you can change routing options, ie bends and elevation etc
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Each standalone ’split’ route stands individually, so can be altered independently. However, MyRoute’s routing preferences are not particularly wide, limited to:
If avoiding highways (and maybe, toll roads) gets you ‘windy’ then great. If you want something that gives you ‘windy’ at the touch of a button, use Kurviger or BaseCamp, though do check what route they spit out. Failing that, pull the MyRoute route around, until it goes where you want it to go.
As ever, my advice is: Play around with it….. you know the rest.
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Last week I sat in a pub in Austria doing this exact thing by copying a large route and removing all the waypoint before or after a certain point, now I feel daft......haha
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