"Direct routes"

[JRThump]

Feature wish: Tick box called "direct routing" or "disable auto-routing" or similar. With this box ticked the program allows to create routes in which the legs are direct lines between the route nodes rather than following any roads.

Hi JRThumb,

how about changing the Type: combobox to Track? It's meant to accomplish your feature wish.

Yes, I understand you and that is exactly how I want the route to behave with the tick box activated. But there is a distinct difference: A track is a track and a route is a route. The track is saved as a <trk> in the gpx whereas route is saved as <rte> and in the GPS it is treated differently. A track is more or less drawn as an overlay road. A trail of bread crumbs. A route on the other hand can be "activated" in the GPS so that the GPS starts pointing which direction to go, etc.