Route or Tracklog

[Mark David Showell]

I'm shortly going on a road trip with a group of friends.

One of the group has planned a route which we want to stick to with no detours.

So that we don't get any detours from the planned route is it best to navigate it as a route but offline or as a tracklog?

[Nick Carthew]

@Mark-David-Showell
Personally, if it is a well designed route, I would navigate offline as a route.

[Con Hennekens]

@Mark-David-Showell, Enable the white "original" route line in the settings. That way you can see if you go wrong.

[Brian McG]

@Mark-David-Showell I think this is a great question

My preference has always been to navigate a route in offline mode but recently I have been experimenting with navigating with the "Navigate routes as track" option enabled
Navigating tracks with MRA used to be quite painful but an update earlier this year has made a huge difference/improvment
I have been frankly very impressed with the improvemnts detailed in this video

Having driven a couple of thousand miles offline in track mode I would really also like to know now what the differences / advantages are between navigating a route or track?

For me with a well designed route they both perform exceptionally well & follow the planned path very accurately
My advice maybe would be to favour track navigation if your not confident of the quality of the planning / design of the route