# Import route: routing from location options **URL:** \ **Category:** Implemented features\ **Tags:** implemented\ **Created:** [October 23, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904 "2018-10-23T12:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![devemux86](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/devemux86/32/6239_2.png) [@devemux86](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/devemux86)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/1 "2018-10-23T12:15:23Z")
Offer more options for routing from location to imported route’s start or nearest point (current workflow). See detailed discussion in [old forum](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kurviger/9-Wcf-SBY3k). ---
**Author:** ![SchlesiM](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/schlesim/32/1080_2.png) [@SchlesiM](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/SchlesiM)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/2 "2018-10-23T13:30:59Z")
Would be absolutely useful. I usually import my routes from another platform, and almost every time I have to adjust start and destination to prevent Kurviger from thinking that I already reached my destination (because it’s the nearest point if the route is a roundtrip). Even better: it would be great, if I could choose any waypoint within my route to be the first waypoint Kurviger is routing to from my current location. This way it would be much easier to re-enter a route anywhere from outside the route. ---
**Author:** ![devemux86](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/devemux86/32/6239_2.png) [@devemux86](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/devemux86)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/3 "2018-10-23T14:45:09Z")
> [@SchlesiM](#): > > Even better: it would be great, if I could choose any waypoint within my route to be the first waypoint Kurviger is routing to from my current location. This way it would be much easier to re-enter a route anywhere from outside the route. Probably mean this feature: > [@Waypoint as route start / delete previous waypoints](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/waypoint-as-route-start-delete-previous-waypoints/218): > > Sometimes I want to enter a route at a certain waypoint (which means: not at the starting point of my route). Or I stop my current navigation and want to choose a certain waypoint to be the next one to be navigated to, because I want to omit a section of my formerly planned route. For such situations it would be great if I could select one of the waypoints (as “next destination”) of my route so that this waypoint would be the next one navigation would lead me to. Would make the Kurviger app muc… ---
**Author:** ![linux-user](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/linux-user/32/56_2.png) [@linux-user](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/linux-user)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/4 "2018-10-23T17:04:49Z")
### Current situation (V1.4.2) When importing a route this dialog appears: ![Screenshot_20181023-184035_Kurviger%20Pro](https://forum.kurviger.com/uploads/default/original/1X/1be66a6f4e14f76d862f6536cba39479d120b725.jpeg) I think, it is not obvious what “calculate route from current position” actually does. ### Proposal: Replace with a dialog like this! ⤴ Import route - calculate route to start point - calculate way to nearest point of the route - keep route as is. 💡And maybe the last user choice could be the default for the next Import. Edit: Alternatively default is always: _keep route as is_ Manfred ---
**Author:** ![devemux86](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/devemux86/32/6239_2.png) [@devemux86](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/devemux86)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/5 "2018-10-23T17:20:41Z")
That’s the “simple” import dialog, i.e. for gpx files the dialog has much more options: ![Kurviger](https://forum.kurviger.com/uploads/default/original/1X/c0aea55b32749d169309ae5213fac3233d6f97e1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![SchlesiM](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/schlesim/32/1080_2.png) [@SchlesiM](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/SchlesiM)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/6 "2018-10-23T19:03:10Z")
> [@devemux86](#): > > Probably mean this feature: Yes, exactly. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![linux-user](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/linux-user/32/56_2.png) [@linux-user](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/linux-user)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/7 "2018-10-24T05:55:41Z")
What does “_extend route_”? I could neither find it in the docu nor understand it by experimenting. The gpx dialogue is indeed more complicated. That makes it questionable, to try to change the route during import - at least for the gpx-dialogue. It is difficult enough to replicate the original version as close as possible. Despite my [above proposal](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/4) I am not a fan of changing the route directly during import. Although it saves a few clicks, I think it would be clearer and more predictable to separate things into single steps. - Import route (this thread) - Modify route [Waypoint as route start / delete previous waypoints](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/waypoint-as-route-start-delete-previous-waypoints/218) - Navigate [Navigation: rerouting options](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/navigation-rerouting-options/905) Manfred ---
**Author:** ![devemux86](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/devemux86/32/6239_2.png) [@devemux86](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/devemux86)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/8 "2018-10-24T07:05:58Z")
It works similarly to website, if there is a route on map, then the _calculated_ route from the import, _can_ extend it. ![Kurviger](https://forum.kurviger.com/uploads/default/original/1X/7b24611a2846ff6156ad562da97cbbd71a3733f1.png) ---
**Author:** ![boldtrn](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/boldtrn/32/360_2.png) [@boldtrn](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/boldtrn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/9 "2018-10-24T12:00:17Z")
> [@devemux86](#): > > It works similarly to website, if there is a route on map, then the _calculated_ route from the import, _can_ extend it. One use case would be: you have multiple parts of a trip (for example one file per day) as .gpx files. Now you want to load the whole trip. You can do this by loading every file in order with the extend route checkbox checked. ---
**Author:** ![linux-user](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/linux-user/32/56_2.png) [@linux-user](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/linux-user)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/10 "2018-11-03T13:14:22Z")
Thank you for the explanation. The more I think about it, the more I think it would be better to **remove** the option “_routing from location_” from the import dialogue, as this dialogue is already quite crowded. IMHO there are better places for the _routing from location_ option e.g. - `route | action` - or at start of navigation Manfred ---
**Author:** ![devemux86](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/devemux86/32/6239_2.png) [@devemux86](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/devemux86)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/11 "2018-11-05T17:40:47Z")
Implemented in [Kurviger 1.5](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/kurviger-1-5/947). ---
**Author:** ![boldtrn](https://forum.kurviger.com/user_avatar/forum.kurviger.com/boldtrn/32/360_2.png) [@boldtrn](https://forum.kurviger.com/u/boldtrn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/import-route-routing-from-location-options/904/12 "2024-10-09T10:28:29Z")