Why does route change when connecting to Android Auto?

[Con Hennekens]

@Herman-Veldhuizen, I must say I do not use the in-app planner a lot, so I never noticed this difference. I am afraid I cannot add much to this if Corjan is already looking at it...

[Herman Veldhuizen]

@Con-Hennekens if you want to try it :

View 'maasland' in MyRoute-app! https://www.myrouteapp.com/route/open/13720793

[Con Hennekens]

@Herman-Veldhuizen, actually I am getting the same detour in both cases...

[Herman Veldhuizen]

@Con-Hennekens so do i if i navigate as route. if i navigate as track i get 2 versions

[Con Hennekens]

@Herman-Veldhuizen, ah yes, I see what you mean. But actually I find that rather logical. "Navigate route as track" only kicks in when you start navigating. By opening the route (it's not a track!) in the planner, the route already changes to create the detour. Then you start navigating that changed route as track, so it includes the detour. When you do NOT open it in the planner first, you navigate the unchanged route as a track, and you know a track won't change due to traffic. So I can imagine that Corjan's conclusion was: "it's by design"

[Herman Veldhuizen]

I guess it makes sense for those who know the internals of the app. I struggle to see that it makes sense for an average user. The fact that the user brings up an editor (or not) before riding should make no difference in what the navigation comes up with.
In other words : the sequence open-edit-navigate is now very different to
open-edit-save-open-navigate ! This even without making one change.

You must agree with me that when I spent an hour or so in the inapp editor to make or check the route that I expect the route to look the same when I press navigate directly after (from the opening page of the route). Currently this isn't the case when navigating a route (with closures) as track.

I believe that people choose route-as-track because they like the stability of the track. In one way this is now the opposite. The stability is there during navigation but not in the time period between planning the route and riding.

In the end it boils down to this: when should the track be created? I sort of feel that it should be created when the route is created/edited and saved. Of coarse when roads change or close/reopen this track becomes out of date. This I understand and I would accept that I would have to revisit the route with a newer map to get an up to date track.

If I had a way to see the track in the in-app editor I would be happy too (i think) because then at least I can see where the app will take me when riding. As far as I know this isnt possible now.

[Con Hennekens]

@Herman-Veldhuizen, I agree with all you say, but I fail to see that it is any other way as it is

When you edit a track in the in-app planner, the traffic info is already there, and what I see when I start navigating is exactly as it was in the editor. The only change is there when you did NOT load it in the editor, and in that case you will not notice a change because you did not open it in the editor.

You say that you don't change anything, but actually by opening a route it get's recalculated. That has always been that way and will always be. That's in this case where the change happens, and a new track is calculated. In the end it is still a route, not a track.

I very much agree that tracks are chosen for stability. For that reason I am all for a feature that converts a route to a track (without export/re-import), so people actually navigate a track instead of a "route as track".

I guess it makes sense for those who know the internals of the app. I struggle to see that it makes sense for an average user.

Yes I can imagine that, but that's why we are trying to help out

[Herman Veldhuizen]

Most of the time I start the navigation from the opening page. I dont edit my routes often. So if there were closures during editing i will be surprised where the app sends me too (assuming the closure are still there). Again when there are few roads, one closure can have a big impact.

But what about my suggestion to display both the route and the track in the in-app editor when I have have route as track enabled? We see both when navigating so I assume it is technically possible.

pure track navigation is no option for me. the ETA info to waypoints is the most important feature for me.