Combining driving route with direct route question.

OKAY, I have edited my post to try and articulate what seems to be THE process for creating a mixed-travel routes in Windows BaseCamp. Or at least what I think is the intended process. Stay tuned...

It took me several route editing sessions to figure this "process" out - maybe I'm getting old but this was not intuitive.

• I started by creating a route using "Driving" mode until I reached the area circled where there was no routable road on the map.
  
• My last "Driving" via point is "Start Direct Routing". At this point I opened the Route Properties window and tried to change that via point to "Direct" like the Mac-BC process but that didn't work as I was not given the option to change the Transportation mode for the last point.
  
• So, I went back to the previous via point and now I was given the option to change the Transportation mode to Direct. This forward-then-back process is very unintuitive and just plain BAD. Nonetheless, if you continue this forward-then-back process of adding Direct via points you will eventually reach the point where you want to end the route or continue on with along-road routing as in this example.
  
• When you reach a routable road on the map you again need to apply the forward-then-back process until you can back track and change the first along-road via point to Driving mode. Once you have completed your route press the Recalculation button at the bottom of the route properties window and you "should" have a nice Mixed-Travel Route.
  

Just so you Windows folks know the difference in the Mac process is that there is none of this cryptic forward-and-back stuff to set the via points Transportation mode. You simply start your route in whatever mode you need to and when you need to change modes, you just create the point where you want to switch modes and the change that points Transportation mode. Now all points following that one will have the same mode. Get to the location where you want to change your mode again and select the properties for that point and make your mode selection - again, all points following that one will have the same mode.

Sooooo, I retract my "it doesn't work" comment and apologize to the Dev Team. It does work as designed. It's just that the design needs to be simplified - please. At least with the Mac-BC process, once you know how it works it stays with you. The Win-BC process is just to complex.

OKAY, I have edited my post to try and articulate what seems to be THE process for creating a mixed-travel routes in Windows BaseCamp. Or at least what I think is the intended process. .......

Woooeee! When you said WAY back in the Montana thread that it was easily possible to mix routed and direct tracks with BC-windows, I had no idea that it was as ridiculously complex as THIS!
Luckily for me, I never tried it!!:confused:

I just seem to be getting closer and closer to using NOTHING but tracks!!

Thanks, Dan.

I created a case for this.

You're welcome....I'm sure the Win-BC folks would appreciate an easier to use process. It might even get used if there was one. Speaking of Transportation tags, I noticed that the new BMW Navigator-V reads them. Funny that it's a BMW OEM unit that is advertising that capability.