Route planner usability

Eduard Horváth shared this problem 14 hours ago
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I'm a power user of this app for many years, however after recent updates route planner usability dropped bellow acceptance.

The simplest task of creating eg a cycling route from A to B becomes an challenge as you very likely get into a situation where the router doesn't know a path but you know your can do this and switching from cycling to manual is now impossible. Longpress, where? Doesn't work. Switching profile to draw manually? Recalculates the whole route (who needs this, very useless function).

I'm an IT professional and the fact that I even have a problem with understanding your app should give your a hint, that you're not moving into the right direction.

Conclusions:

1. Route recalculation: worst new feature ever

2. Route planning: allow switch to manual draw easily

3. LoRouter: should know cycling routes in cycling mode, shouldn't send you stupidly over paths just because you're in MTB mode

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I also use Locus for at least 180 days a year for cycle planning and have found the planner extremely difficult to plan with. It's always been so simple before. When you found a section Locus couldn't route you through you'd just change to car, or manual, then switch back. Now I don't really understand what's going on when I try this but the route seems to mess up previous sections.


Is there anyway I can revert to a previous version or planner? The current one is just cumbersome and irritating.

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Just been trying to plan a cycle route from Bremerhaven to Kiel. The planner is almost unusable now for this. I have to keep putting draw manually sections in (which I don't mind) but it always then redraws much (not all) of the previous sections as manual straight lines. I then have to manually correct each one, then it happens again next draw manually section.

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Manually by long pressing + button

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Sorry, I don't really understand this reply.

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Draw a manual section by clicking and holding on +. Then continue cycling.

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