Thanks for the input Ziggy I want to understand this.
By pressing Optimize does it sort the route by the best/ fastest activity profile you have ?.
Or can it optimize the route within the same activity profile ?.
Your example seems to show it changing your route from Motorcycling profile to Iba gold profile.
But you wont want to travel at Gold pace all the time.
I have a few Profiles which is setup for different types of ride day ...
The Gold Pace will let me know what is possible at that pace running the Route Preference to Fastest time point to point.
The Normal Profile still uses the Fastest time but I reduced the Average speed.
The Short Profile Average speed same as the Normal but the Route Preference is set to Shortest route.
All Profiles use all the same Avoidance's
Road Avoidance's .. Unpaved Roads selected .. So I'm not using all types of roads
Feature Avoidance's .. Avoid .. Cable Cars, Narrow Trails and Climbing Paths.
Like Mark (FJRPilot) has mentioned if you just enter all of your waypoints the select them all select make route out of selected waypoints then it will make a route up in that order .. By pressing Optimise the Base camp will route to and from the furthest points.
By adding the waypoints one by one No Optimisation is needed and if you press the button it remains the same to the custom profile anyway.
The Profiles now working are within 5 - 10 mins ETA.. but the route is only for Basecamp ..
Once I've copied it to the Garmin(s) I only select the waypoints.
If you do want to follow the route (Which I have in the past) then
Don't allow the Garmin GPS unit to recalculate when it ask's. This will then let you use the route planned by your Basecamp edit.
If you do allow the GPS Unit to recalculate the route it may find a short cut that it thinks is a faster route or send you on a narrow trail.
Hope this helps ... I don't mind an hour or so in Calais to review bit's & bob's let me know & I'll pack a laptop ..
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