[Nomae]

I must be missing something about what you all are trying to do because it seems to me that PE does exactly what you want.

I create a route by picking a starting and ending point and then I just drag the route to follow the exact roads I want to take. PE then gives me voice-guided turn-by-turn instructions that follows my route exactly. Unlike MapQuest it doesn’t throw my route out the window the second I miss a turn. And you can pick up any route from wherever you are (MapQuest always tried to take me back to my starting point if I restarted in the middle of a ride).

It is so simple to drag the route where you want and I’m thrilled I no longer have to go into MapQuest to create a route and text it to my phone.

Please let me know what I am missing here as I really want to take full advantage of all PE has to offer and if there is something here it doesn’t do I’ll vote to have it added as a new feature.

Also, can anyone tell me why you want straight line tracking between two points? I can’t think of any use for that at all.

Thanks.

[Nomae]

I have the same need. I want to create a specific route and follow it exactly.

So far it seems to me that using the Control Points is a fairly easy way to make a custom route and in my one ride it seemed to work perfectly. If you are clever about where you put the control points you can minimize the number you have to add.

I’d like to know how to import a GPX file so it shows up as a route and not tracks simply because working on my pc to create the route is easier than on my iPhone. I’ve been using RouteConverter and Mapquest.com but so far haven’t figured out how to make my exports work in PE.

I look forward to giving PE more tests. I’d been using MapQuest which is easy to create routes but the second you get off track or it decides there is too much traffic on your chose route it immediately reroutes you on the shortest way to your destination.

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