Turn off auto-calculate

Former Member

Five years later and this is still a valid and unanswered question.  Sometimes you do want to make a change to a planned route using the routeing tools and it's really annoying when you have to do this one action at a time while waiting for the recalculation.

I often plan routes based on the map alone through paths that may or may not be the best route to follow.  Once I follow the route if I find it was a bad idea I create a way point called "bad idea" so I can easily locate it later and then correct the route as I share the exported gpx files.  It would be helpful if this process was faster without the re-calculation.

Is there a way to switch this off?

I don't quite follow what you're doing and what you want to happen. I plan all my routes the same way.  I create the start and finish point, enter them into the route box that pops up when you select the routing tool and let BaseCamp calculate the route. I then 'rubber band' the route to make the route go the way I want.  Any changes are fairly instantaneous.

Perhaps you could explain your workflow and where it's failing?

SUSSAMB

I don't let BaseCamp create the route.  I create the route by hand on the map.  Then after having completed the physical walk I edit the route in Basecamp.  When I do this every point I change by holding down the alt key and dragging initiates a recalculation.

I use walking routes too as well as driving routes. For walking routes I use the direct activity in BaseCamp.  No recalculation at all.  Easy enough to edit once I return, normally by comparison with the track created on my GPS as I walk.

SUSSAMB

SUSSAMB said:

For walking routes I use the direct activity in BaseCamp.  No recalculation at all. 

That sounds good.  Can you show me how that works, or maybe tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I created a quick video to explain what I'm doing... might help:

OK, there are two things going on here. First I can see you have the hiking activity selected and secondly you have a map selected that is routeable. I can't see which map as you don't have that in the toolbar.  The second from last icon in your toolbar is the activity that you have selected as your default and that is set that to hiking. The hiking activity is also shown against your routes in the lower left hand pane.

For a start try this. Open the route properties of the route by either double clicking the route or right clicking it and selecting properties. The activity drop down list is top right, click it and choose direct activity. Now when you move points there will be no recalculation.  Once you've finished change the activity back to the hiking activity and it will recalculate all your changes.

I though have direct activity set as my default and create all my routes using that profile, as I've never been able to find a map that will route along the types of tracks I like.

Another suggestion - have you tried converting your route to a track, editing the track as a track, then when you are done converting it back to a route?

Changing to direct activity will make a difference, direct routes cannot be recalculated even if a routeable map is selected.  Did you change the activity in the properties of the selected route or just the default? Just changing the default won't change previously created routes.