Freehand Map Routing

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Bruce Hamilton

• November 02, 2020 19:59

There should be a "freehand mode" of mapping route.

eg. Crossing a road should not be a long detour up & down the same road.

- on map the path stops short getting to road when in fact it does not stop.

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  Abhishek Anand

  • November 03, 2020 10:34

  Hey Bruce.

  Thank you for sharing your input and this is really helpful while sharing the report with the Product team on a monthly basis.
  
  Your feedback is enormously valuable to us and we always value customers who are keen to give us their feedback. I will be sure to pass on what you have told me to our Product team.
  
  We are working on an extensive project on mapping and Routes and we are sure this will be improved incrementally towards the shipment of Karoo 2.

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  Shaun Watts

  • July 06, 2022 07:44

  I have this same problem, two years on, 2022. Was looking to move from a Garmin 830 to a Karoo 2 but without the ability to map freehand onto gravel and other paths its a non starter.

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  Richard Soltes

  • October 06, 2022 03:41
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  Free hand mapping can be done with RWGPS line mode & Map-My-Ride in walking mode, while both are in cycling mode or with them in all walking mode, which is less useful following roads. Sometimes freehand (or foot) is needed to escape the algorithm, which gets "helpful" when not wanted.

   

  I think my GPS has Alzheimer's, when I give it a route

  It goes out wandering about, it must think that that's cute.

  I want to take a shortcut, or hop a nearby curb,

  but it takes me off to odd spots and this leaves me quite perturbed.

  If I sneak up backwards on a road for just a scant few feet

  There seems to be no way, without a path I can't delete

  That goes to some way far off land, where it thinks magic lies,

  And scolds me with its messaging in tones that I despise.

  Now other folks would let me trip into a walker's manner,

  Make my cross country violation, and go back to the route planner.

  But not this guy, who punishes my dreams of quicker, shorter flight

  With Donnybrooks , some distance long just to add to my plight.

  So if we could have a walking mode, or perhaps draw in a line

  To allow these indiscretions, I would think it mighty fine.

  Or else I'll have to medicate the thing, or leave it with a friend

  When I need to have a route to ride and not chase around the bend.

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