Keep Losing Routes

[ronald adams]

@Con-Hennekens I agree, it is strange. So far I have created 15 routes, each containing 60 or more waypoints. Each of these were created on the app you have identified as navigation and suggesting what I have done is impossible. After completing each route it has subsequently show on the website. On line I am able to open the routes, share them, and do any of the things that I really have no interest in doing. All I want is an app that I can use to plan a mulistop route and later navigate that route, hopefully using the same device I used to create it.

Yesterday I tested the other app identified as the one designed for planning. It was impossible to use on my 7 x 4 tablet so I used my windows laptop with a 14 inch monitor. It took two hours to build a 20 waypoints route and took another hour to make all of the edits, even though I was using my tablet ant the " navigation" app to do that.
Sorry, but I will have to live with CoPilot and work around the deficiencies I was trying to get away from. At least I learned how to "work around" one of Copilit's weaknesses buy using the "navigation" app to feel that my 3 year subscription fee was not completely wasted.

[Steve Lynch]

@Con-Hennekens

For clarity, it has been possible to create routes in MyRoute-App Navigation for a long time as indicated by @ronald-adams.
You can see the Crosshairs and the blue button at the bottom adds the waypoint to the position of the crosshairs.

[Steve Lynch]

@ronald-adams

It is possible to add waypoints in the Routeplanner in the exact same way as you have been doing it in Navigation.
You can enable ‘Place Waypoint Button’ from the Toolkit menu.

[ronald adams]

@Steve-Lynch Using any PC or tablet you will never build a 30 waypoints route, including rearranging waypoints and adding additional ones to make the route as efficient as possible, in the time I can create a 60 waypoints route on my 7x4 tablet using the "navigation" app. Give it a try and let me know how it went.

[Steve Lynch]

@ronald-adams

I have no interest in rapidly plotting my routes.
My preferred road types are the narrow twisty country lanes with no pavements for walkers.
I use the Routeplanner Street View specifically to check for as many of these types of roads I can string together, obviously there will be the odd A or B (UK Definitions) roads I need to use to get to these Country Lanes.

The main point however, is that MRA Navigation which you are currently using to plot your routes in, will be soon be completely removed and replaced with MyRoute-App Mobile which is currently being developed to replace it for Navigation.

I applaud you for your determination in using such a small device to plot your routes, but I'll happily stick to the full blown RoutePlanner experience on my PC or my iPad Pro.

[Con Hennekens]

@Steve-Lynch, Oh yes, indeed, my apologies to @ronald-adams. I NEVER used that option, and seems to be an extremely clumsy way of making scenic routes. But I can imagine it has some value for other purposes. I cannot imagine making 60 WP routes in that way, cetrainly not in areas you are not familiar in. I use the full browser version as well, and prefer the Michelin overlay. Just route over the "green" roads as much as you can, and a beautiful route is guaranteed!

[ronald adams]

@Steve-Lynch Sorry for leaving out relevant details about where the addresses that I am using to create a route and why they are chosen. My wife spends several weeks,and sometimes months, finding sites that we might find interesting to see. The search begins with historic ( in the US that might mean pre 1900) homes, churches, libraries, rail depots and such. These are mostly in small to large towns and occasionally cities. She uses Bing maps because that is what she is familiar with. She also arranges the order to make the routing as efficient as possible. Since you cannot save maps easily she creates a text itinerary which she gives to me for input to the navigation system we are using at the time. In the past we have tried Tomtom on a hand held, Street and Trips on a Linovo net book with an external locater attached, and now CoPilot loaded on my Samsung tablet. That is why I find it relatively easy to input the addresses while readjusting the routes with the use of appropriately placed additional waypoints. We often will route around roads we have used recently but we have been RVng throughout the US for many years that often that is difficult. Thanks for reading.

[Steve Lynch]

@ronald-adams

Thanks for the further info.
Enjoy your trips and stay safe.