I Can't Find a YouTube Video on How to "Trace" My Ride for the Day
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I often get notifications in MyRoute of friends completing tracklogs, and when I click on them, I see the line of their travel, without any shaping points, waypoints, etc. I want to be able to do the same thing and let my MyRoute friends see the trips I make.
I've been using MyRoute for several years now and am comfortable making a route I want to follow. I then convert it to a gfx file that my Harley-Davidson Road Glide can use (my old bike had the BoomBox GTS, and my new bike has the Skyline OS). It has worked great for thousands of miles for me.
Today I tried something different and it didn't work. Before starting off on my 75 mile ride, I opened the MyRoute app on my iPhone and pressed the red circle in a circle in the lower right corner. At the top of the map, a green oval with "Recording" popped up. I then opened other apps to get music, etc., and came back to the still open MyRoute app 75 several hours and about 75 miles later--I never closed the MyRoute app, I just opened other unrelated apps.. I can't remember exactly what menu popped up, but I think one of the choices was Resume. What I expected to see was the same screen I left earlier, only this time I would stop the recording and see a line all over the map showing where I traveled. The only "line" I had was slightly down my driveway. For most of the trip, my iPhone was in the right glovebox of my fairing, and at other times, with me when we stopped for gas or a restaurant.
So I went to YouTube and could fined nothing about "tracing" my route. I use the word tracing because I may have my terms of route, track, etc., mixed up. (For example, the way I understand it, a shaping point in MyRoute is a waypoint in Harley's Ride Planner, and a waypoint in MyRoute is a Location in Ride Planner. That's how I understand it, and it has worked fine for me all these years.)
I found many videos about using routes and tracks, but couldn't find anything about "tracing " or making a tracklog.
Again, I just want to be able to let my MyRoute friends see the trips I make.
Would someone please point me in the right direction (pun intended).
Sam
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Hi Sam, see the manuals of the App (8), https://www.myrouteapp.com/support
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I often get notifications in MyRoute of friends completing tracklogs, and when I click on them, I see the line of their travel, without any shaping points, waypoints, etc. I want to be able to do the same thing and let my MyRoute friends see the trips I make.
I've been using MyRoute for several years now and am comfortable making a route I want to follow. I then convert it to a gfx file that my Harley-Davidson Road Glide can use (my old bike had the BoomBox GTS, and my new bike has the Skyline OS). It has worked great for thousands of miles for me.
Today I tried something different and it didn't work. Before starting off on my 75 mile ride, I opened the MyRoute app on my iPhone and pressed the red circle in a circle in the lower right corner. At the top of the map, a green oval with "Recording" popped up. I then opened other apps to get music, etc., and came back to the still open MyRoute app 75 several hours and about 75 miles later--I never closed the MyRoute app, I just opened other unrelated apps.. I can't remember exactly what menu popped up, but I think one of the choices was Resume. What I expected to see was the same screen I left earlier, only this time I would stop the recording and see a line all over the map showing where I traveled. The only "line" I had was slightly down my driveway. For most of the trip, my iPhone was in the right glovebox of my fairing, and at other times, with me when we stopped for gas or a restaurant.
So I went to YouTube and could fined nothing about "tracing" my route. I use the word tracing because I may have my terms of route, track, etc., mixed up. (For example, the way I understand it, a shaping point in MyRoute is a waypoint in Harley's Ride Planner, and a waypoint in MyRoute is a Location in Ride Planner. That's how I understand it, and it has worked fine for me all these years.)
I found many videos about using routes and tracks, but couldn't find anything about "tracing " or making a tracklog.
Again, I just want to be able to let my MyRoute friends see the trips I make.
Would someone please point me in the right direction (pun intended).
Sam
@Sam-Kramer Tap the red record button when you start and it will turn green indicating that it is recording, tap the green button and save the tracklog when you have finished your route.
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Make sure that in your phone you have set locatikn/GPS permissions for the app to "ALL THE TIME".
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I often get notifications in MyRoute of friends completing tracklogs, and when I click on them, I see the line of their travel, without any shaping points, waypoints, etc. I want to be able to do the same thing and let my MyRoute friends see the trips I make.
I've been using MyRoute for several years now and am comfortable making a route I want to follow. I then convert it to a gfx file that my Harley-Davidson Road Glide can use (my old bike had the BoomBox GTS, and my new bike has the Skyline OS). It has worked great for thousands of miles for me.
Today I tried something different and it didn't work. Before starting off on my 75 mile ride, I opened the MyRoute app on my iPhone and pressed the red circle in a circle in the lower right corner. At the top of the map, a green oval with "Recording" popped up. I then opened other apps to get music, etc., and came back to the still open MyRoute app 75 several hours and about 75 miles later--I never closed the MyRoute app, I just opened other unrelated apps.. I can't remember exactly what menu popped up, but I think one of the choices was Resume. What I expected to see was the same screen I left earlier, only this time I would stop the recording and see a line all over the map showing where I traveled. The only "line" I had was slightly down my driveway. For most of the trip, my iPhone was in the right glovebox of my fairing, and at other times, with me when we stopped for gas or a restaurant.
So I went to YouTube and could fined nothing about "tracing" my route. I use the word tracing because I may have my terms of route, track, etc., mixed up. (For example, the way I understand it, a shaping point in MyRoute is a waypoint in Harley's Ride Planner, and a waypoint in MyRoute is a Location in Ride Planner. That's how I understand it, and it has worked fine for me all these years.)
I found many videos about using routes and tracks, but couldn't find anything about "tracing " or making a tracklog.
Again, I just want to be able to let my MyRoute friends see the trips I make.
Would someone please point me in the right direction (pun intended).
Sam
Hi @Sam-Kramer ,
as @RetiredWingMan wrote: access rights for MyRoute-App to location must be granted for all time. Not limited for time in wich App is used! And battery saving for the App must be off!Then, as @Nick-Carthew wrote, tap the red circle icon down right on the screen, to get it green. This will start recording your trip.
At the end of your trip, you need to tap again the now green circle icon, to start saving procedure; this will take a couple of seconds. If you don't have Internet connection this time and saving fails, check upload queue in App. You can repeat uploading of failed tracks, if you have a Internet connection later on.And about wording: you are right. "Via Points" in MRA-Routeplanner are called in other navigation devices differently; may called Waypoints...
Inside a gpx file (file format is common), you can see: if there is a route, the points are called routepoints. If there is a track, the points are called trackpoints. And if there is a POI (Point of Interrest) included, it's called waypoint. Sounds a bit irritating, but take a moment to think about, then you will understand.Also you need to understand: what you usually are planning before a ride, is a route. Defined by routepoints (via, or shaping). At MyRoute-App you will see a blue line as overlay on map. And you will see turn instruction icons on screen and you will get additional voice instructions during ride.
In opposit: you can record your ride, then it's a track and you will see a yellow line as overlay on map. Both also at same tine: following a route and recording your ride as track.
If you will follow later on your saved and reloaded ride (track), or get a recorded trip of someone else as gpx file - then you must check ongoing the track line on map and compare, if you are still on right road. You will not get turn instruction icons on screen and you will not get additional voice instructions from tracks!
Usually...
But new in MyRoute-App: you can use a route - but navigate as track. Then you will get additional voice instructions during ride! The advantage is: navigation is really calculating the path exactly on the track. You know - if you share a route with others, each navigation device is calculating the path by it's own algorithm. Result will be different at each device.
