Annoyances with no solution and answers

The code team leader needs a wake up call / slap ... it's almost 2023 and garmin is faaaaaaaar behind.

The UX is horribele and basic logic functions that would make users very happy are ignored.

Hshdu said:

- Why do I see all types of routes (MTB, Hiking, etc) when I am in my Road activity profile. 

Because the routes are not profile specific.  The routes are separate from the profiles so you can see all them on the device no matter what profile you have selected.

Hshdu said:

- Why aren't the courses sorted in any useful way. I believe they were sorted by name last time I looked. Not anymore.

There are various sort options: name, distance to start, shortest, longest, newest first, oldest first.  Route list -> hamburger menu -> sort

Thank you! I thought they used to be sorted by name. 

For the filtering of routes, it's just software, since I am in Road it would be easy to show me roads of that type. 

How would the unit know which routes are road or MTB etc?  There would need to be some sort of tag applied to the route by the route creation software that was standardised.  The unit doesn't look at what roads/trails/tracks etc routes follow when they are put onto the unit.  Even if it did it could miscategorise them or apply them to valid categories that the user doesn't actually want them in for whatever reason.  It is simpler if the unit just shows every route on it and lets the user pick which one they want to use.

well look at that, I thought the route type was in the XML but no, seems to be part of Komoot. I guess it is too much to ask to modify the schema to add route type. And then you would need to be able to choose the route types for each profile... It's not going to happen. 

But since I learned how to sort, I can live without that.

Thanks for the help.