Dashed blue line in route creation

#1 · 05.07.2026, 04:46

Hello,

When I use the Round Trip Generator in Scenic, I sometimes see a blue dashed route that follows actual roads and is different from the magenta route. It is not an imported GPX. What exactly does the blue dashed line represent? Is it an alternative generated by the round trip algorithm, or is it a display bug? I often find that the dashed line follows a nicer curvy route which is my preference but doesn’t get applied. Is there something I can do about this?

kind regards

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#2 · 06.07.2026, 11:55

Scenic works with a 3rd party provider to calculate curvy routes. The 3rd party provider send back the blue line. Scenic needs to make a navigable route from this and so it takes key points along the blue line and then calculates the route with it's own routing engine (to get directions and enable turn by turn guidance). Sometimes however, Scenic calculates a different route between the key points. This is why Scenic also displays the blue line, so you can recognize this and make manual corrections (add or move via points).

Take you screenshot as example... adding a via point on the blue line close to where the crosshairs is would make the purple route take the blue route.

Hope this explains.

best regards,
Guido

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