Multiple routes

[Stav]

Hi Christian

I am sure that more than likely this has been requested before.

I was planning different routes to a destination having 3 open RouteConverter instances and keep jumping from one to other which was becoming very confusing and tiring.

It would have been fantastic if I could plan the first route, then start the second route on the same map with different colour and a third one with another colour. 

My thinking (very simplistic as I am not a programmer) it could be done if there was a way to stop the calculation from the last waypoint of route A to the first waypoint of route B, then, calculate route from first waypoint of route B to the last waypoint of route B and so on.

This way will be easy to see where routes overlap, different directions etc....

Do you think something like that is doable? 
One thing for sure it could make RouteConverter the best ever.

Many Thanks
Stav

[UKenGB]

Hi Christian

I am sure that more than likely this has been requested before.

I was planning different routes to a destination having 3 open RouteConverter instances and keep jumping from one to other which was becoming very confusing and tiring.

It would have been fantastic if I could plan the first route, then start the second route on the same map with different colour and a third one with another colour. 

My thinking (very simplistic as I am not a programmer) it could be done if there was a way to stop the calculation from the last waypoint of route A to the first waypoint of route B, then, calculate route from first waypoint of route B to the last waypoint of route B and so on.

This way will be easy to see where routes overlap, different directions etc....

Do you think something like that is doable? 
One thing for sure it could make RouteConverter the best ever.

Many Thanks
Stav

That would be extremely useful, but exporting to other formats might be tricky.

What about having multiple windows open so one could at least view the different routes in the different windows? Unless I'm missing something, currently only one route in one window can be open at a time and that can be very frustrating.

[routeconverter]

I am sure that more than likely this has been requested before.

Dear Stav,

that's try. That request is not new and the use case is valid and understood.

Do you think something like that is doable? 

It's a huge effort with a lot of technical diffculties since the map view is based on the idea to display one position list at a time. Doable but not within a few days.

[UKenGB]

What about having multiple windows open. No technical difficulty with that surely?

[routeconverter]

What about having multiple windows open. No technical difficulty with that surely?

That's already possible. Just start RouteConverter several times.

[UKenGB]

What about having multiple windows open. No technical difficulty with that surely?

That's already possible. Just start RouteConverter several times.

Huh? How do you propose I should do that? If RC is already running and I try and start/open/execute it again, I just get shown the currently running version. I am not aware of any way to open the same app multiple times in MacOS. Please explain how you propose I should do this.

[routeconverter]

I am not aware of any way to open the same app multiple times in MacOS. Please explain how you propose I should do this.

You could download the JAR version and start it from the terminal.

[UKenGB]

I am not aware of any way to open the same app multiple times in MacOS. Please explain how you propose I should do this.

You could download the JAR version and start it from the terminal.

Hmm, good point. I wasn't aware of that option. I'll give it a try.

[UKenGB]

Can't find any option to download a jar version, but was able to start the .jar contained within the apps contents/Java folder. However this also cannot be run more than once.

I did discover that I could have the app running simultaneously with the jar version, so that's 2 instances at the same time. Still rather limiting though, only 2 windows/routes.

Would it not be relatively easy to allow multiple routes/windows. It is what the GUI was invented for :-)

I asked elsewhere but could we also have double clicking on a specified file (e.g. GPX) would open that file in RC, just like other apps?

[Stav]

I can open more than one RouteConverter window (i use the exe file) by clicking on GPX file and I tend to have 2-3 windows open - start with the base route on the first, changing the second and changing the third but is not easy to compare - 3 windows open at the same time are too small. 

It should not be required to export to any other formats - this function is to help create the best route. The preferred route can be saved and exported on its own by copying and pasting the waypoints to a new window or deleting the unnecessary waypoints or save as separate routes.

For example for the screenshot below I copied all the 3 different routes into one RouteConverter window but as all routes start from the same location RouteConverter calculates from the destination of Route1 to starting point of route2 etc... and all are in the same colour and can be very confusing 

Anyhow - I think Christian knows what I am looking - not easy but worth the effort.