If you generate a GPX with both trkpt and rtept coordinates (as the
Measurement tool can), is that a track? a route? or a hybrid?
On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 10:40:18 AM UTC-7, Grzegorz Adamiak wrote:
>
> 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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