Waypoints and Stops
Any and all assistance to get me pointed in the right direction is very much appreciated.
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RoadRider Posts: 634 [Revered Pioneer]
When you are planning a route there are two options.
Plan your route to be used as a “Route” or plan your route to be used as a “Track”
On a recent TomTom device, a “Route” is just a collection of Stops (there are no (Soft) Via-points). TomTom will automatically add information to this Stop like the street name and house number. And with this information your Stop becomes also a Waypoint.
Riding a Route you must drive up to every stop in order.
There are two ways to put a route on your device.
1. With MyDrive use the option “Send Destinations”. This way you can send a maximum of 20 stops to your device. (My program SendITNRoute also transfers .GPX or ITN routes this way)
2. Create a .ITN file an save it on your device using the USB cable or micro-SD card. This way you can send a maximum of 255 stops to your device.
With routes you still can use all route options and with Fastest Route it also uses the current Traffic information to find the fastest route.
When you use the “Sync this route as track” option in MyDrive the route becomes a Track.
Now you can also drag the route to different roads to optimize your track in MyDrive.
You can see a Track as the “breadcrumb trail” from Hansel and Gretel. Now your TomTom will exactly follow the selected roads to your destination.
Because it is also possible to load (.GPX) Track that are created with different maps or are recorded using a GPS Tracker TomTom first maps your Track to the roads on the map. During this process small mistakes due to incorrect recording are filtered out. (This way you do not have to turn left every side street and have to make a u turn to go back to your route just because the recording is 50m off.)
This filter is also likely to filter your lunch stop. So, its better to plan separate tracks from stop to stop.
Personally I use Track when I like to ride a nice weekend round trip on the nicest roads and a route when the stops are important.
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Plan your route to be used as a “Route” or plan your route to be used as a “Track”
On a recent TomTom device, a “Route” is just a collection of Stops (there are no (Soft) Via-points). TomTom will automatically add information to this Stop like the street name and house number. And with this information your Stop becomes also a Waypoint.
Riding a Route you must drive up to every stop in order.
There are two ways to put a route on your device.
1. With MyDrive use the option “Send Destinations”. This way you can send a maximum of 20 stops to your device. (My program SendITNRoute also transfers .GPX or ITN routes this way)
2. Create a .ITN file an save it on your device using the USB cable or micro-SD card. This way you can send a maximum of 255 stops to your device.
With routes you still can use all route options and with Fastest Route it also uses the current Traffic information to find the fastest route.
When you use the “Sync this route as track” option in MyDrive the route becomes a Track.
Now you can also drag the route to different roads to optimize your track in MyDrive.
You can see a Track as the “breadcrumb trail” from Hansel and Gretel. Now your TomTom will exactly follow the selected roads to your destination.
Because it is also possible to load (.GPX) Track that are created with different maps or are recorded using a GPS Tracker TomTom first maps your Track to the roads on the map. During this process small mistakes due to incorrect recording are filtered out. (This way you do not have to turn left every side street and have to make a u turn to go back to your route just because the recording is 50m off.)
This filter is also likely to filter your lunch stop. So, its better to plan separate tracks from stop to stop.
Personally I use Track when I like to ride a nice weekend round trip on the nicest roads and a route when the stops are important.
Thank you again for your help.
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