Welcome.
One question. I noticed in your routes you sometimes use a lot of ‘hands’ (points you must go through, which you’ll keep being sent back to if you miss them) and fewer of the teardrop ‘shaping points’. Any reason?
One comment. MyRoute recommends placing a ‘shaping point’ every three miles / five kilometres, to help to pin routes. If you are a gold member of MyRoute, this is easy to do, using the expand function. But take a bit of care using it. See: https://www.ukgser.com/community/threads/the-expand-function.396964/
One suggestion: It’s a good idea to place your first point of the day, not where you’ll be starting from. Instead, place it say a mile or so along the road you know you’ll take to leave. Why? The device used to run the route, will know where you are standing with pinpoint accuracy, it doesn’t need to be told. What it does need to be told is where to next. If, as suggested, you place that point a mile or so away, it will give the device somewhere to aim for; it will take you there. More importantly, the route will then run automatically from that point onwards, with no intervention from you. This works very well. Give the point (it will by default be a ‘hand’) a name you’ll recognise. I use: LEAVE.
You can also do the same thing after say a lunch stop, by inserting a ‘hand’ along the road you’ll take, calling it something like: LEAVE LUNCH. This is useful if, for some reason, you turn off your device, as it will give the device somewhere to aim for after the lunch break.
I use both methods and they work reliably on assorted devices, including MyRoute Navigator on a phone and Garmin devices.
One question. I noticed in your routes you sometimes use a lot of ‘hands’ (points you must go through, which you’ll keep being sent back to if you miss them) and fewer of the teardrop ‘shaping points’. Any reason?
One comment. MyRoute recommends placing a ‘shaping point’ every three miles / five kilometres, to help to pin routes. If you are a gold member of MyRoute, this is easy to do, using the expand function. But take a bit of care using it. See: https://www.ukgser.com/community/threads/the-expand-function.396964/
One suggestion: It’s a good idea to place your first point of the day, not where you’ll be starting from. Instead, place it say a mile or so along the road you know you’ll take to leave. Why? The device used to run the route, will know where you are standing with pinpoint accuracy, it doesn’t need to be told. What it does need to be told is where to next. If, as suggested, you place that point a mile or so away, it will give the device somewhere to aim for; it will take you there. More importantly, the route will then run automatically from that point onwards, with no intervention from you. This works very well. Give the point (it will by default be a ‘hand’) a name you’ll recognise. I use: LEAVE.
You can also do the same thing after say a lunch stop, by inserting a ‘hand’ along the road you’ll take, calling it something like: LEAVE LUNCH. This is useful if, for some reason, you turn off your device, as it will give the device somewhere to aim for after the lunch break.
I use both methods and they work reliably on assorted devices, including MyRoute Navigator on a phone and Garmin devices.
Last edited:
