Assign a via point/waypoint number

[Corrado Miniati 0]

Thanks for the advice, I'll follow your advice. Renumbering the points was convenient because moving them on the map can cause positioning errors and is extra work for the control.

Perhaps Corjan can consider this suggestion for a future update.

Thanks

[K De Weerd]

@Nomko-Nomden said in Assign a via point/waypoint number:

But why do you want to renumber the waypoints?

I had the case the other day where after the reation of a route, I wanted to look for possible fuel stops along the way. But when I added them, they came at the end of a relative long list of shaping points, meaning I had to remember in between which points it needed to be, and then drag the new via-point up into the right position within the list.

But perhaps there is a better way to insert an additional via-point in the right spot in an existing route?

[Nick Carthew]

@K-De-Weerd When you add an additional route point in between others, hover the cursor over the route line until you see a black ball, then click to add the new route point. If you need to, you can then drag the new route point to the fuel station.

[Peter Zehentreiter]

@Corrado-Miniati-0 said in Assign a via point/waypoint number:

because moving them on the map can cause positioning errors and is extra work for the control.

If I understand you correctly, you're moving the points on the map?

To avoid positioning errors, you have to go to the waypoints list and drag them to the location you want them to be.

[Lex.Kloet.RX]

@Corrado-Miniati-0 I try to figure out, what the need could be, to change the order of waypoints that much, so that one of the last points will be one of the first. Your whole route changes and you're driving back and forth and the route twice...

[Peter Zehentreiter]

@Lex.Kloet.RX I think he only has this problem when he has added a point to the route in the app, which he then has to move to the correct position using the waypoint list.
Currently, I agree with his statement that moving the waypoints (opened via the route lab) is very jerky and it takes a long time to move the waypoint to the correct location.

I have noticed that if you open the route via the Routes and Tracklogs menu and then open the waypoint list in the route, moving the waypoints works very quickly and smooth.

[Lex.Kloet.RX]

@Peter-Zehentreiter just insert a waypoint on the desired place and delete the other ‍️

[Peter Zehentreiter]

@Lex.Kloet.RX What you say is true, but if he wants an extra one, it's fiddly on a cell phone.
I also move points around from time to time and use this technique.

[Lex.Kloet.RX]

@Peter-Zehentreiter he mentioned "to move the point with the mouse", that is definitely not on a cell phone.

[K De Weerd]

@Nick-Carthew said in Assign a via point/waypoint number:

@K-De-Weerd When you add an additional route point in between others, hover the cursor over the route line until you see a black ball, then click to add the new route point. If you need to, you can then drag the new route point to the fuel station.

I am aware you can add shaping points like that and you can subsequently change them into via-points, but dragging the point onto the POI does not ‘snap’ it to this POI. Would be a nice way to add a via point automatically named like and with all the info of said POI

[Peter Zehentreiter]

@Lex.Kloet.RX One-nil to you.
But who knows which cell phones can already be operated with a mouse these days.