Why would you save / download a route, if you didn’t need to send it to a sat nav?

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Wapping said:
Good news, I think.

I can replicate your problem, using MyRoute’s Navigation app on my iPhone. All from Grand Canaria. As I was hooning around the island, I thought about the advice that came to you from the MyRoute forum…. And a light came on.

I think it’s because you downloaded the route onto your phone, whereas I had been experimenting on my iPad, by simply using the Navigation app to open and display the route, then to navigate it.

Trying doing it again, saving your route (as MyRoute’s forum suggested) in version 1.1. Then open the saved route in the MyRoute Navigaion app on your phone. It should be OK with all the waypoints in place etc etc. In other words it should look perfect and (more importantly) navigate you from A to B, along the roads you want to take.
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I have a question now :) If you make a route on the web or on the iPad, why would you export/save the route as a gpx whatever unless you were downloading for loading onto a satnav? I have just been making routes on the mac or iPad, then just opening the route on my iPhone on the app direct from the Route Lab Routes. Then just Nav it. I have never saved it in a particular format to my iPhone and loaded it. I would have thought you would only do that if you wanted to Nav a route that you had downloaded from another source, but if it is all in MRA it should be seamless.
 
That’s a good question.

I guess the answer is that you need a WiFi connection to access MyRoute’s Routeplanner. If you were away and had no WiFi available, then having the route downloaded would enable you to use the route. Similarly, it might well be useful to download the maps, to use the Navigation app in offline mode. I do the latter and run the Navigation app in ‘offline’ mode by default.

On a vaguely related topic, MyRoute now allows you to synchronise all (or some) the routes in your Routeplanner library. If for instance, you were away and changed a route on your phone, the alteration would then be saved (synchronised) back in Routeplanner, too.

See:

Wapping

Thread 'Synchronisation - How’s it done, mate?'

I still haven’t got my head around the new synchronisation tool.

I have tapped around like a demon (safe in the knowledge I can’t break anything) but I still think I must be doing something wrong.

I don’t want or need to synchronise my entire library. All I want to do is synchronise a handful of individual routes for say, a single holiday. Has anyone made a simple step-by-step guide (hopefully with screen shots, to back up the narrative) showing the process from start to finish, including how to summon up a synchronised route when off line.

Many thanks for any assistance.

Richard

Berin

Thread 'offline routes - can it still be done without syncing?'

As above. I've done my routes and I want those routes to stay, as they are, on my phone, and not get altered if I fiddle with them on my iPad.
Is it still possible to make them available offline/downloaded?

Thread 'Copying, amending and saving a route WTHOUT altering the original'

So Wapping got me curious, and I now know how to do something in the app that I didn’t know was possible.

In the app, click “routes/tracks”, find a route and then click the pencil icon to edit it (in the app, not using the web planner)

There’s then an option to “copy route”. At first it didn’t seem to do anything, but then I figured it out. If you click copy route and do nothing else, nothing happens.

However, if you click “copy route” and then make some changes and click save, your changes will be saved in a new route. The existing route will remain as it was. What’s confusing is...
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We’re all different - I would still use sync and not export/import.

My rationale is there are two scenarios, for me personally:

1. I’m changing the route as there’s something wrong with it. In this case the sync to amend the cloud copy is a good thing, as I don’t have to remember my changes when I get back home. Wouldn’t want to use the route again in the future and find I’d forgotten to fix it and couldn’t remember what I’d changed last time.

2. There’s nothing wrong with the route, but I feel like changing it whilst still retaining the original in the cloud. To me, that means I want two routes. I’d duplicate the original and change the copy. Both would then be synchronised with the cloud and available on all devices. If I weren’t happy with the changes I’d delete the second route after I’d used it. However, often adhoc changes can lead to the new route being better, so having both in the library is an advantage. It avoids later discovering that the new route was better, but because I’d not synchronised it I don’t have it in my online library.

Additionally, I tend to put notes, images and some of the other MRA advanced stuff for stops in routes. This doesn’t carry across if you export and import, meaning the extra work to add things, like images of the stop such as where the entrance or car park is, would be wasted.

That’s the beauty of the app - we all have our own approach that works for us. I’m just offering a different view that works better for me, so people can see there’s more than one approach and choose the method that suits them best.
 
daesimps said:
We’re all different - I would still use sync and not export/import.
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Indeed.

I don’t use the sync facility, for two reasons.

1. I have too many routes held on Routeplanner, meaning that MyRoute cannot synchronise them all.

2. I want to always preserve the original (unaltered) route(s).

Like you, I use a workaround, copying the original route I wish to synchronise and using the synchronised copy. Any changes I then make only affect the copy version of the route and not the original.
 
Wapping said:
Indeed.

I don’t use the sync facility, for two reasons.

1. I have too many routes held on Routeplanner, meaning that MyRoute cannot synchronise them all.
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Is that still the case? I know when the sync facility first came out in beta your specific case was raised, but I thought they upped the limit to fix this issue.
 
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