How to Navigate Route as a Track?

[Rob Verhoeff]

@Lenny-O said in How to Navigate Route as a Track?:

I mean that once you call the Route on the screen, just before you start Navigating, would be nice to choose how you want to do it, as a Route or as a Track.

This is how it used to be! Now, you just flip the toggle. Why would you want to ride a route as a track one day and as a regular route the next? In fact, I think I’ll soon be using route navigation less and switching entirely to track navigation. I’ll create the route in the planner, and when you start navigating, you can be sure you’re following your route exactly as you planned it.

[Lenny O]

Thank you, Herko and Rob!
Rob, I don't know if I would always want to ... did not try it yet.
But what are we losing if we switch to the Track navigation vs Route navigation?
There has to be something... Comments on via points? Pictures? IDK...

BTW, is this option Membership Level related?

[Lenny O]

@Thomas-Neumeyer check the version of the app you have. Maybe you need to reload? Also, are you signed in?

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Thomas-Neumeyer they cannot be changed while navigating
Open the settings when you aren’t driving!

[Lenny O]

@Corjan-Meijerink Corjan, does the option to navigate a Route as a Track have anything to do with the Membership Level?
Thanks!

[Thomas Neumeyer]

@Corjan-Meijerink I was sitting on the couch

[Rob Verhoeff]

@Lenny-O I presume you have a subscription to the navigationpart, so no...

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Lenny-O no, definitely not

[Con Hennekens]

@Thomas-Neumeyer, that maybe, but you started the navigation module In cannot be changed while navigation is running.

[Con Hennekens]

@Lenny-O, no, it does not. Its a just an extra feature of the existing subscription

[Martin Kjell]

Maybe I'm doing it wrong. But if I deviate from the route (as a track) with some shaping points, it still wants to reroute me back. I was stubborn and after around 10 km it told me it skipped that waypoint. Is it expected behavior. Tomtom for instance just tells me closest way back to the track in case I deviate.

[Con Hennekens]

@Martin-Kjell, Yes that's expected behaviour, if you keep being stubborn and don't follow the suggestion... What you need to do in such a case, is long-press your own chosen point of re-entry. Then it will guide you to there, insead of back to a point you obviously don't want.