Route Planning: Automatic Return to "Home" Location
Quote from Northkaibab on 28.03.2022, 07:37Hi Guido -
I use Scenic 100% to plan long rides that are broken into daily route segments. So the endpoint of the Day "X" route is always the start point of the Day "Y" route.
As an example - I live in Ohio, USA, but I'm currently planning 30 daily routes for a month-long moto tour of Oregon. Most of Scenic's features make this easy and fun! But Scenic route planning seems to have one default that's wasting a lot of my time. Scenic appears to assume I plan ALL my routes starting at my home location. In fact, that is almost NEVER true.
So - as an example - I just planned a route from Bend, Oregon to John Day Fossil Beds, Oregon. And when I saved that route, Scenic immediately transitioned my map location back to my home location in Ohio. But hey, what I wanted to do next was back in Oregon: plan the next day's route beginning at John Day Fossil Beds.
I'd very much like to see a setting for the Power Planner that allows users to choose between two default behaviors: 1) Begin planning the next route at the "Home" map location or 2) Begin planning the next route at the map location corresponding to the endpoint of the last route planned.
Thanks, Mike S.
Hi Guido -
I use Scenic 100% to plan long rides that are broken into daily route segments. So the endpoint of the Day "X" route is always the start point of the Day "Y" route.
As an example - I live in Ohio, USA, but I'm currently planning 30 daily routes for a month-long moto tour of Oregon. Most of Scenic's features make this easy and fun! But Scenic route planning seems to have one default that's wasting a lot of my time. Scenic appears to assume I plan ALL my routes starting at my home location. In fact, that is almost NEVER true.
So - as an example - I just planned a route from Bend, Oregon to John Day Fossil Beds, Oregon. And when I saved that route, Scenic immediately transitioned my map location back to my home location in Ohio. But hey, what I wanted to do next was back in Oregon: plan the next day's route beginning at John Day Fossil Beds.
I'd very much like to see a setting for the Power Planner that allows users to choose between two default behaviors: 1) Begin planning the next route at the "Home" map location or 2) Begin planning the next route at the map location corresponding to the endpoint of the last route planned.
Thanks, Mike S.
Quote from Guido on 28.03.2022, 08:16Hi Mike,
Thanks for the suggestion. Understand your point. Will add it to the list. Will be a little while before I get around to it though.
Meanwhile, perhaps a workaround… if you search for a location that search is saved in the search history. Also takes a few taps, but might save a bit of time compared to dragging and zooming.
Cheers,
Guido
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the suggestion. Understand your point. Will add it to the list. Will be a little while before I get around to it though.
Meanwhile, perhaps a workaround… if you search for a location that search is saved in the search history. Also takes a few taps, but might save a bit of time compared to dragging and zooming.
Cheers,
Guido
Quote from Northkaibab on 30.03.2022, 05:41Thanks, Guido! I realize this is far from a pressing issue, so was not expecting a quick implementation. I always keep in mind that Scenic is vastly better than my previous route planning tool - Garmin Basecamp. And you are far more responsive to ideas and issues than those folks from Kansas!
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While you're the coder, I thought of perhaps a decent way to implement this idea:
1) Select any existing route in your "library" of routes
2) Click on a button: "Begin planning new route from finish..."
3) Magic code executes and you are taken to the Power Planner with the the start point of a new route centered at the map location of the finish point of the route selected in step 1.
Mike S.
Thanks, Guido! I realize this is far from a pressing issue, so was not expecting a quick implementation. I always keep in mind that Scenic is vastly better than my previous route planning tool - Garmin Basecamp. And you are far more responsive to ideas and issues than those folks from Kansas!
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While you're the coder, I thought of perhaps a decent way to implement this idea:
1) Select any existing route in your "library" of routes
2) Click on a button: "Begin planning new route from finish..."
3) Magic code executes and you are taken to the Power Planner with the the start point of a new route centered at the map location of the finish point of the route selected in step 1.
Mike S.
Quote from Guido on 30.03.2022, 09:27Hmmm. As this is really a power user feature I would not want to clutter the UI with this for basic users.
I was thinking to have a setting under Finetuning “Always open power planner at end point of last saved route”. Less flexible but also less clutter, and would serve your purpose.
You’d still have the ‘center on current location’ button to quickly go to your current location if that’s what you wanted.
Hmmm. As this is really a power user feature I would not want to clutter the UI with this for basic users.
I was thinking to have a setting under Finetuning “Always open power planner at end point of last saved route”. Less flexible but also less clutter, and would serve your purpose.
You’d still have the ‘center on current location’ button to quickly go to your current location if that’s what you wanted.
