Thanks pal i will take a look.
Way points
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OK, so we now know that the ‘next point’ box is displayed in the upper right position on your phone.
Now:
1. Try skipping points, using the method I suggested in post #13 and report back.
2. See if you can get the bike to show the ‘next point’, as described by Mzokk in his posts. Report back.
When you have 1 and 2 working, we’ll move on.
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I would say messing about with it on the go on bike screen is a no go unless I want to crash.
OK….
Do I read it correctly that you are now happy how the skip function can be activated by touching the phone and how it skips from point 1, to point 2, to point 3?
If so, we can move on a bit further.
Do I read it correctly that you are now happy how the skip function can be activated by touching the phone and how it skips from point 1, to point 2, to point 3?
If so, we can move on a bit further.
Yes sorry.
Splendid, then we’ll carry on…
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1. Can I get the app to skip the teardrop shaping points automatically?
Yes.
2. How?
App > Top left corner, three horizontal bars, tap > Top right corner, little man, tap > scroll down, Navigation Settings, tap > Functional, tap > Skip waypoints automatically, slide right to turn on (green)
3. Will this skip the ‘hand’ viapoints, too?
No, those are points you have told the dumb (but very clever) device you must go through. To skip these, you must use the manual method described earlier in this thread.
4. What advantages does auto-skip have?
It saves you doing it manually, safe in the knowledge that if you auto-skip say, point 5, the device will still take you to point six and keep you on on route to points seven… eight…. nine and so on…. It will also definitely still take you to any hand points you created.
It saves you remembering where the individual points are. Just ride ‘off route’ without a care in the world.
5. Can I skip from start (always a hand) straight to say point three or seven?
Yes.
6. Will it recalculate the route if I skip a point or two?
Yes, probably / possibly.
7. Why?
Because, you created a route that went start (which is always point 1) to point 2 to point 3 to point 4. You have now asked the device to go from the start point to point three or seven. The roads to take you there might well be different, obviously.
8. Can I reduce the possible effects of a recalculation?
Yes
9. How?
MyRoute recommends placing a shaping point roughly every three miles. If you do this, the gap between each point is quite small, limited often to perhaps just one road connecting them together.
10. What other advantages might there be to skipping points manually?
The key one relates to hands and what we already know about hands. We know that they are points that you must go through, unless you skip them manually. We know that point 1, your start point is always a hand.
Let’s now pretend that you create a route on a Monday and decide to ride along it on Wednesday. On Wednesday, you are not starting exactly where you thought and point one is behind you, about a mile back down the road. Obviously you don’t want to ride backwards, to pass through the point and then turn around. So, skip it manually. Point 1’s hand will now become point 2…. Away you go….
When creating routes I no longer place the first point bang on the start point. Why? It serves no useful purpose to do so. The device will always know where I am, exactly. It will always take me to point one, without fail.
Yes.
2. How?
App > Top left corner, three horizontal bars, tap > Top right corner, little man, tap > scroll down, Navigation Settings, tap > Functional, tap > Skip waypoints automatically, slide right to turn on (green)
3. Will this skip the ‘hand’ viapoints, too?
No, those are points you have told the dumb (but very clever) device you must go through. To skip these, you must use the manual method described earlier in this thread.
4. What advantages does auto-skip have?
It saves you doing it manually, safe in the knowledge that if you auto-skip say, point 5, the device will still take you to point six and keep you on on route to points seven… eight…. nine and so on…. It will also definitely still take you to any hand points you created.
It saves you remembering where the individual points are. Just ride ‘off route’ without a care in the world.
5. Can I skip from start (always a hand) straight to say point three or seven?
Yes.
6. Will it recalculate the route if I skip a point or two?
Yes, probably / possibly.
7. Why?
Because, you created a route that went start (which is always point 1) to point 2 to point 3 to point 4. You have now asked the device to go from the start point to point three or seven. The roads to take you there might well be different, obviously.
8. Can I reduce the possible effects of a recalculation?
Yes
9. How?
MyRoute recommends placing a shaping point roughly every three miles. If you do this, the gap between each point is quite small, limited often to perhaps just one road connecting them together.
10. What other advantages might there be to skipping points manually?
The key one relates to hands and what we already know about hands. We know that they are points that you must go through, unless you skip them manually. We know that point 1, your start point is always a hand.
Let’s now pretend that you create a route on a Monday and decide to ride along it on Wednesday. On Wednesday, you are not starting exactly where you thought and point one is behind you, about a mile back down the road. Obviously you don’t want to ride backwards, to pass through the point and then turn around. So, skip it manually. Point 1’s hand will now become point 2…. Away you go….
When creating routes I no longer place the first point bang on the start point. Why? It serves no useful purpose to do so. The device will always know where I am, exactly. It will always take me to point one, without fail.
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No problem.
Play around with it, you can’t break it.
PS One thing I should add. It’s reasonably important to keep the Navigation app up-to-date. Why? MyRoute are improving / amending the app to include or improve many of the app’s functions. For example, update 4.1.3 improved the way the skip function’s algorithm works.
It is worthwhile joining the MyRoute forum as it has notices of the updates (Andoid and IOS are often updated separately) along with questions / answers from users which are often helpful, too. For example, I was struggling to understand why my Samsung phone would not update its downloaded maps, whilst my iPhone did its map update perfectly. I am new to Android phones, so I had assumed I was doing something incorrectly. I was just about to ask the question on the forum, when I spotted an announcement that there was a problem with the HERE maps but it was affecting Android users only.
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