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--- manual:user_guide:tracks:planning [2025/07/15 14:44] – mstupka
+++ manual:user_guide:tracks:planning [2026/09/09 11:31] (current) – mstupka
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 **Routes** are strings of routepoints along which user is **[[manual:user_guide:functions:navigation|navigated]]** during his activity - hiking, biking etc.
-**Routes** are **pre-planned, drawn on a map or imported** and put into navigation devices so that we can travel along their lines. **Tracks** that were recorded by you or someone else **can be turned into routes** when we need to navigate them.
+**Routes** are **pre-planned, drawn on a map, or imported** and put into navigation devices so that we can travel along their lines. **Tracks** that were recorded by you or someone else **can be turned into routes** when we need to navigate them.
 **Routes** can be drawn **manually on the map** or **automatically** by a **[[manual:faq:how_to_navigate_offline:|router]]**. **Locus Map** provides several methods of creating routes:
-  * **Route planner** - tool for manual and automatic drawing of routes with routing service assistance
+  * **Route planner** - a tool for manual and automatic drawing of routes with routing service assistance
   * **Changing tracks to routes** - using tracks as routes for navigation
 ===== Route planner =====
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   - **graph tab switch** opens the elevation chart and surface/way type graphs:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan2.jpg |}}
   - **itinerary** - dynamic list of shaping or via points on the route
-The **top bar** - contains **Save/Navigate** button and the **Route menu**.
+The **top bar** - contains the **Save/Navigate** button and the **Route menu**.
 ==== Route line ====
 The route line consists of segments rendered between shaping points and via points inserted on the map screen.
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 </WRAP>
 ==== Select routing profile ====
-=== Whole route ===
 If you use the route planner for the first time, it will draw the route line in the walking profile. If you want to **change it**:
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   * **select** another routing profile:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan3.gif?nolink |}}
-<WRAP center round important>
+=== Whole route or the next route segment? ===
-If you have planned a part of the route before the profile change, **the whole route is recalculated with the new profile** this way.
+This can be easily switched ON or OFF at the bottom of the routing profile list:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan77.jpg?nolink |}}
+<WRAP center round tip>
+Example:
+  * **OFF**: You want to plan a hiking trip and you want to get to the trailhead by car. Start planning the route in the car profile. When you get to the trailhead, switch to the hiking profile. The first part remains routed for the car, and you go on with hiking. When you get back to the place where you left your car, switch to the car profile to design the route back home.
+  * **ON**: You are designing a biking trip. You plan the first version in the "bike touring" profile but you don't like it - it follows too many tarmac roads. You switch to the "gravel" profile and the entire route is replanned with higher priority for gravel roads.
 </WRAP>
-=== Next route segment ===
-If you want to change the routing profile for the next route segment only:
-  * tap the routing profile button to **open the selection**
-  * select **continue with** from the submenu by the desired routing profile:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan72.gif?nolink |}}
 ==== Routing mode ====
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 === Router selection ===
-The router profiles are provided by the selected **[[manual:user_guide:functions:navigation:settings#router|router]]**. To **change the router**, tap the left part of the profile button and choose:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan58.jpg?nolink |}}
+The router profiles are provided by the selected **[[manual:user_guide:functions:navigation:settings#router|router]]**. To **change the router**, tap the top bar of the profile selection and choose:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan58.jpg?nolink |}}
 **[[manual:faq:how_to_navigate_offline|More about routers, routing profiles and their parameters >>]]**
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     * {{:manual:user_guide:ic_path_add_new_alt.png?nolink&30|}} - only plain line stretches between shaping points:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan4.jpg |}}
-<WRAP round tip>Manual mode can be **quickly switched on** when you **long-press the drawing mode button**.</WRAP>
+<WRAP round tip>Manual mode can be **quickly switched on** when you **long-press the drawing mode button** when the [[planning#quick_profile_parameters|profile parameters button is on screen]]. Or, you can set a [[planning#long_tap_on|long-press action for the route point adding button]].</WRAP>
 <WRAP round important>By default, the manually drawn parts are **ignored by the router when you re-calculate** the whole route. You can change this in the [[manual:user_guide:tracks:planning#keep_manual_segments|route planner settings]].</WRAP>
 ==== Alternative routes ====
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 Shaping and via points are listed in the itinerary. Here you can perform several actions with them:
   * **change their order** by dragging the left part of the list:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan50.gif |}}
-  * **change their location** with the [[manual:user_guide:tools:location|location selector]]:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan48.jpg?nolink |}}
+  * **change their location** with the [[manual:user_guide:tools:location|location picker]]:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan48.jpg?nolink |}}
-  * **add via points** to the itinerary:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan51.jpg?nolink |}}\\ By tapping such a newly added point you can set its location by the [[manual:user_guide:tools:location|location selector]] - by an address, coordinates, projection, etc.
+  * **add via points** to the itinerary:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan51.jpg?nolink |}}\\ By tapping such a newly added point you can set its location by the [[manual:user_guide:tools:location|location picker]] - by an address, coordinates, projection, etc.
   * **delete** route points
   * display **route segment** details with the option for recalculation in a different profile:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan51.gif?nolink |}}
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 {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan31.jpg |}}
 Here you can set the color, width, pattern and other graphical aspects of the route line:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan36.jpg |}}
-<WRAP center round tip>
-To **avoid too steep hills** you can set route color to dynamic slope style <wrap info>Available only with **[[https://www.locusmap.app/premium|Premium]]**</wrap> and define an unacceptable range of the slope angle, i.e. 10%-30%. Locus will highlight such places for you:</WRAP>
-{{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan37.jpg |}}\\ so you can re-plan the route:\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan38.jpg |}}
 ==== Retaining unsaved plan ====
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 If you don't need them on the route planner screen, turn them off (you can still zoom in/out by pinching or double-tapping/shifting).
 ==== Show magnifier ====
-A convenient tool, especially for those with weaker eyes, the magnifier always emerges when you move any part of the route.
+A convenient tool, especially for those with weaker eyes, the magnifier always emerges when you move any part of the route.\\ {{ :manual:user_guide:tracks:rteplan76.jpg?nolink |}}
 <WRAP center round important>
 This setting turns the magnifier on/off also in the **[[manual:user_guide:tracks:editing#edits|track editor]]**.

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