Favourite routes

My Routes in Navigator provide a handy solution for saving the routing points when you are planning a trip in advance or have some favourite routes and thus have them prepared for later use.

Description

Favourite routes are saved and managed in My Places under the Routes tab.

How to save routing points to My routes

A new route is created from the currently set routing points (i.e. start, destination and waypoints, if set).

Saving a new route from My Places/Routes menu

You can save a new route directly from My Places/Routes menu using the blue Route+ button. Navigator will automatically use the last (currently set) set of routing points for this route.

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Saving a calculated route or a set of routing points from the Route info menu

Another possibility is to save a new favourite route from the Route info / Routing points menu.

You can always find the currently set routing points in Route info / Routing points. You can save these routing points by tapping on the 3 dots in the top right corner and choosing Save as. Again, add a name for the routing points set and put save. Afterwards, you can find this route in My Places / Routes.

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Actions with saved routing points

There are several actions available with saved favourite routes (set of routing points). Just short-tap a saved route to get the action window.

Mapfactor Navigator 7.3 - My routes - actions The available actions are:

  • Load - upload the routing points for further use. Subsequently, you can manage and use them in Route info.
  • Delete
  • Rename
  • Calculate route - Navigator will calculate a route using the given routing points
  • Share as GPX

Management of saved favourite routes

Mapfactor Navigator 7.3 - Order my routes Saved routes can be managed in the same way as saved favourite places. You can delete, rename or share them using the action menu as described above. You can also order the list of saved routes by tapping on the 3 dots in the top right corner. You can even move the items manually in the list or created groups (folders). Detailed description of how to manage favourites manually and order them into folders can be found in Did you know - Favourite Places.


Backup of your favourites

It can be useful to back up your favourites, especially if you plan to move the installation to a new device, need to reinstall the app or clear the cache.

For backup go to Settings / Advanced / Backup and reset. You can choose between an online (Google Drive) or a local storage backup.

For full instructions on how to backup Navigator settings read: Navigator Settings - backup / export / import (Android).

Back up Routing points and my routes (routing_points.xml) for your routes and Favourite places (favourites.xml) if you wish to back up favourite places as well.


Other Did you know? posts on Favourites:
Favourite Places
GPS recordings