How to navigate a track?

[Guzzist]

I'm a bit confused and wonder if development was running in a strange direction with "navigate route as track"...?
I know the sense of this, but my intention is, to get a gpx file which contains a track only and navigate by this.

If I import such a file as Track or as Route-Track - the result is always the same - no matter which preferences I select: I get always a blue and a white line, if I start navigation with. That's annoying! I know, I should follow in this case the white line. But this forces unnecessary extra concentration!
The only mitigation I found is: select this Track or Route-Track for navigation, but start as "free ride"! Result: you will get only a blue line and you can navigate by clearly following the line (as usually for track navigation).

Same issue is reported by @Martin Wilcke https://forum.myrouteapp.com/post/75062

Second issue: if gpx files contains waypoints <wpt> (POI), the import procedure operates that like stepchilds!
In case, gpx is imported as track, this points will never be imported!
In case, gpx is imported as Route-Track, this points will never be imported!
In case, gpx is imported as Route, this points will be imported as shaping points!
But why? The export procedure does it correctly.

[Con Hennekens]

@Guzzist, like explained in that other thread, the feature "navigate route as track" has no influence on navigating an exported track-only GPX. It only has influence in routes created on the HERE map. If you open a track-only GPX, the white lines are the original track, and the blue one is where you will be navigated. It may seem odd that those are not always exactly equal, but that is due to HERE preferring roads if they are (very) close to a track when the track goes offroad (including unknown roads).

I have seen nothing in the other thread that is not explainable, except that OSM routes seem to have no or very coarse trackpoints included for the navigate route as track feature.

[Bouke Ent]

today i did test load track but select free ride. for me this is a almost perfect way to follow exact a track. ride a route as track always convert te blue line to roads that here knows and white line is not always easy to see.

as in second remark it would be great if a track can be created direct inside MRA planner. i think this is already ask a few times.

it would we also good if pio's that are saved in trackfile would show up op map. i will test this coming days if this works or not.

[Corjan Meijerink]

Please see this post: https://forum.myrouteapp.com/post/75367

[Bouke Ent]

@Corjan-Meijerink said in How to navigate a track?:

Please see this post: https://forum.myrouteapp.com/post/75367

to what do you revere ?.

link to other post is not totaly the same.

today i did test pio but they are not taken or shown on map when on freeride but also on import on website the poi from a track are not imported.

Bouke

[Martin Wilcke]

@Guzzist said in How to navigate a track?:

The export procedure does it correctly.

Right. You can export POIs as GPX <wpt>, but not the other way round by uploading or importing a route, route-track or tracklog.

The only way to get GPX <wpt> into MRA is by uploading them as POIs:
RouteLab > upload > POI

@Guzzist said in How to navigate a track?:

In case, gpx is imported as Route, this points will be imported as shaping points!

I've never seen this before. Can you share a GPX example?

[Martin Wilcke]

@Bouke-Ent said in How to navigate a track?:

poi from a track

If you're talking about a GPX file, there are no "POIs from a track" - there are POIs (<wpt>) and Tracks (<trk>) as separate elements.

You can import a Track as route-track (or tracklog) and you can import POIs - but not both in one go.