Rerouting around a road block whilst out riding

[dungbeetle]

Hi everyone,
Please see the attached picture below.

Whilst out riding I encountered a road block (red) which prevented the original 12, 13, 14 waypoint route from being taken.

I couldn't figure out how to reroute along the alternative (green) route shown.

Things I tried:

1. Select and drag point 13 onto the green route road. Did not work, it could not be moved. I could only delete point 13. That might have worked in this case routing directly to 14, but I wanted to add a new waypoint 13 on the new green route as just skipping a waypoint may not always take the desired new route to 14.
2. Add a new waypoint on the green route road. This created an incorrectly numbered and out of sequence waypoint which could not be reordered in the waypoints list on the mobile app. (I know this can be done on the PC version when planning.)

Does anyone know how to make this kind of course correction on the phone app whilst out riding? Is there a way to either drag and relocate an existing waypoint, or create a new 'in sequence' waypoint after deleting the old one?

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

[Con Hennekens]

@dungbeetle, The easiest way for this is NOT to add or drag waypoints, but to skip to WP 14. I think you disabled the "upcoming waypoint" tile in your screenlayout settings. Tap that tile to skip a waypoint. Or longpress waypoint 14 to continue from there.

[RetiredWingMan]

@dungbeetle assuming you were already past wp12, skipping 13 & 14 should have sent you up the green route.

[Nomko Nomden]

As mentioned by @RetiredWingMan, keep the route as it is and set waypoints 13 and 14 to Skip, see red arrow screenshot and my apologies for having this menu in Dutch.

I've had similar issues on routes i edited/created, by using the Skip command/mode you can straighten out a route.

[Con Hennekens]

@Nomko-Nomden, for that you need the planning platform, so you would need to stop Navigation, and is hardly something you would do on the road. Besides that, it will only draw straight routelines from 12 to 13, and 13 to 14. Not exactly a solution. Besides the besides, the Navigation does not support the skipping of waypoints that way (yet). So it will still route you over WP 13

@RetiredWingMan said in Rerouting around a road block whilst out riding:

assuming you were already past wp12, skipping 13 & 14 should have sent you up the green route.

That depends where 15 is, I can't see that in the screenshot since the routeline goes both directions

Anyways: just driving up the green road would eventually lead to auto-skip WP 13, if you use that feature, and else you need to skip it manually.

[dungbeetle]

Many thanks to all for your replies.

The ability to plot a quick diversion on the fly whilst travelling would be a great addition.

[Con Hennekens]

@dungbeetle said in Rerouting around a road block whilst out riding:

The ability to plot a quick diversion on the fly whilst travelling would be a great addition.

You can do that in two different ways:

• longpress any point on the map to ad it as a waypoint.
• go into the menu (3 dots) and choose "add stopover" (or whatever the second option is called in English )

In both scenarios the app will try to place the new waypoint logically between the existing ones.

[RetiredWingMan]

@Con-Hennekens interesting that you can long press on the map to add a waypoint ... but you can't long press on the planned route to add an extra waypoint on route. That seems to be tied up or reserved for skipping waypoints.

[Con Hennekens]

@RetiredWingMan. indeed, I have not noticed that before. But why would you want to add a waypoint at a location you are already passing? I have not tried, but I am convinced that you can add such a waypoint through the search function though.

[Nomko Nomden]

@Con-Hennekens said in Rerouting around a road block whilst out riding:

@Nomko-Nomden, for that you need the planning platform

Ja tuurlijk! Kan niet in de app

[RetiredWingMan]

@Con-Hennekens my thought was that, as in the example about, to get around a blockage, you may want to skip one or more points and add a point to assist with getting around the blockage.

[Con Hennekens]

@RetiredWingMan, yes, but when the route is already recalculated over an alternative road, adding a waypoint to that alternative road it has already chosen is not really meaningful. Of you want to force a recalculation over a different road, that is possible given the existing features.