The best of the best places you’re riding through

#1 · 05.03.2024, 00:11

Hi. Would it be possible to easily “like” a place you’re riding through, a village you want to visit later or a nice road you want to remember for another trip… without stopping ? Just by rapidly touching the GPS screen while riding ?

We could even plan a trip through those “best of places” to generate a terrific trip.

Anyway, thanks for this fantastic app Guido ! Can’t stop using it. A must-have.

#2 · 05.03.2024, 00:28

Thanks @jcs37,

A feature like this has been n the list for quite some time. Over just not had the time to look into it yet. It would be something like a “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” feature where you can mark a spot with just a quick tap. Then later go back and add some comments to that location.

I hope I will have time to add this feature this year.

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If you're enjoying Scenic and are happy with the support, please leave a nice rating in the App Store. It would mean a lot to me ❤️

#3 · 05.03.2024, 00:40

Thanks for this quick answer Guido. That’s exactly what I need. I just hope I’m not the only one 😀

#4 · 05.03.2024, 03:37

For the moment you can use the Photo button to save the location. It will save the location on the ride and can be used later.

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#5 · 05.03.2024, 06:31

Another solution is to make a shortcut with the shortcut App and put it to the navigation Menu.

I 've created a shortcut for myself, when you tap the shortcut button in the navigation menu, a note will be created in the Notes App, with the name of the street and the coordinates.

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#6 · 29.03.2024, 12:08

Yes, that'a great idea - I was hoping for such a function s well. When riding a very nice road, jut make a thumbs up, those thumbs up could be collected as POI category, and later when planning a new route you can take a look at all those thumbs up sections, and plan a route thru them.

BR
Mario

#7 · 06.04.2024, 16:36

Yes, Apple Shortcuts are very good, I wish I had two more spaces.

Access via the Control Panel during a ride;

Great Roads - customize to your liking

Create an Apple Shortcut (its a horrible process but you’ll get used to it after a week !)

Actions for each menu item

this is the subroutine to get your current location

and sample output

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#8 · 07.04.2024, 01:59

Unimpressive work around, mate

but it appears that this is just getting street name addresses. What happens when you’re outside on the countryside? The main idea would be to re-import those points to Scenic and be able to plan a tour using these road sections.
can you do that with your work around.?

BR

Mario

#9 · 07.04.2024, 02:24

Thansk for your help Old Man Emu. I'm gonna try this... Have a nice day.

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#10 · 07.04.2024, 18:07

Quote from Darth_Fazer on 07.04.2024, 01:59

Unimpressive work around, mate

but it appears that this is just getting street name addresses. What happens when you’re outside on the countryside? The main idea would be to re-import those points to Scenic and be able to plan a tour using these road sections.
can you do that with your work around.?

BR

Mario

Hi Mario, I gather that you meant “impressive” ! In any case the idea was someone else’s somewhere on the interweb.

The shortcut will get the best location details it can from your satellite connection. If you select Cafe from the menu it adds Cafe to the location.

A code mod to write out the GPX data would be easy and then these can be imported to Scenic as Waypoints.

#11 · 08.04.2024, 00:37

Yes, of course I meant impressive. Stupid auto correct , sorry

ok then this could be a first step and then we need to re-import these waypoints.
BR

mario

#12 · 08.04.2024, 05:36

I made this Shortcut (sorry it's german, hope you get it although you're not german)

It generates a CSV file, which I save on iCloudDrive. Than I can load this to Garmin POI Loader and let generate a GPI file. I than convert this with "GPSBabel" https://www.gpsbabel.org/ to a GPX file which I can load into Garmin Basecamp. It's not a direct way, but it works.

See it as a basis for your own POI file generator.

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#13 · 09.04.2024, 06:40

I extended my shortcut a bit, now you get a menu where you can choose the poi category.

I put the shortcut file to this post.

massi

my pois.shortcut

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