Recalculate navigation - what waypoint

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Hi,

I usually use follow mode with recalculation set to manual. I find it difficult to interact with a phone while on the bike and often I’m leading a ride so trying to get back on path is more important that trying to diagnose and work out what the app is doing. I wonder then if there’s more documentation about the way waypoints and shaping points work. I like the way it works now that I can just ignore waypoints and follow the route and not interact with the phone but wonder if kurviger is marking that I’ve been to waypoints. If I did come unstuck and had to recalculate then what would it do? I’m used to the way google maps needs you to get within some distance of a waypoint otherwise it just keeps trying to navigate to it. Is kurviger the same? If I’m a number of waypoints into a ride and recalculate then what waypoint would it try to navigate to?

I saw there was a previous post that talked somewhat of this but not much detail on what it means to be at a waypoint.

Regards

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You’ll find lots of answers in Kurviger’s knowledge base:

or in English

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Kurviger uses 2 types of waypoints:

  • via point (blue mandatory). Use for places you want to visit.
  • shaping point (black may be skipped). Use to change the route to your wishes.
    Similar to drag and drop in Google Maps.
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Kurviger should behave quite the same. The waypoint must not visited exactly.

SP - Shaping Point (black) - a SP should be skipped automatically, when it is behind you

VP - Viapoint (blue) - As it is a point you want to visit, Kurviger tries the best to guide you to this point.

To my experience a point is reached, especially waypoints, when your position is about 300 meters, less or more.

Proposal: As it is all theory, try to create a simple test route like this. Switch on recalculation(!) and drive just forward, and check what happens.

First part with black SP, one is set at about 1 km away from the route, one quite near.

Second with blue VP. One far away, one near.

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The automatic recalculation shows you what new route would be calculated, when you press the recalculation button yourselve from your current position. To verify drive again with no recalculation; stop at some point and press button for recalculation.

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Thanks everyone for the pointers. Some reading of the documentation related to the subject cleared some of the confusion up. I’ll also try teh experiments but probably in a car - that will be easier than on the bike.