On Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 10:22:12 AM UTC-7, Bart Eisenberg wrote:
> The function has two ways to create a GPX, which begs a question: why
>> would you save a route as "a line" rather than as "route points"? Looking
>> at the resulting GPXs, it appears that both use trkpt coordinates. In
>> addition, saving as "route points" also include rtept coordinates ("turn
>> points" in the GPX schema), which are the places you have marked out with
>> the Measure tool.
>>
>> Route points have some advantages. Is there any reason not to have them?
>>
>
A common use case is creating a track (not route) for offroad riding (or
hiking). The routing will rarely produce the same path, while measure tool
gives you a freedom of designing the track as you want it to be. If you
pass the track to others they can use another tool to either navigate by
track or at least display an overlay in their navigation/device, which will
not work with a route. And actually manually following a track overlaid on
a map is another use case, be it hiking or biking or whatever.
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