Viewing Points on the Map
Use Points Explorer with the map screen when you want to match a table row to the point it represents on the map.
Highlight A Point
When Points Explorer is open, selecting a row can select the matching point on the map. Selecting a matching point on the map can also update the row highlight in Points Explorer.
On desktop, moving the pointer over a row can highlight the matching point while the pointer stays over the row.
Use the standard desktop modifiers to select more than one row:
- On Windows, Ctrl-click toggles a row. On macOS, use Command-click.
- Shift-click selects the inclusive range from the current anchor and replaces the previous selection.
- Ctrl+Shift-click on Windows or Command+Shift-click on macOS adds the inclusive range while preserving selected rows outside it.
- On macOS, Control-click opens the row menu and does not change the selection.
An ordinary click or tap replaces the selection. Map selection and row highlighting remain shared, while Points Explorer keeps its current route, track, or waypoint list when the map selection is empty or ambiguous.
Use View
Use View when you want OMN4 to centre the map on a specific point.
- Open Points Explorer for a route, track, or waypoint item.
- Open the point row's menu.
- Choose View.
On desktop, View centres the map from the Points Explorer window. On mobile, OMN4 returns to the map first, then navigates to the point.
If the parent route, track, or waypoint item is hidden from the map, View can show it again before navigating. Points Explorer does not have a separate map-visibility switch; it only helps you view and select points.
Row Menu
The row menu can include:
- View
- Properties...
- Move... in Waypoints mode
- Split Here for a route or track. See Split and Merge.
- Cut
- Copy to Clipboard, with This row, Selected rows (N) when more than one row is selected, and All rows
- Paste before and Paste after, after you cut or copy points that can go in this list
- Delete
When more than one row is selected, some labels change to show how many points the action affects. Delete reads Delete selected points (N), Cut reads Cut selected points (N), and, in Waypoints mode, Move... reads Move selected points (N)..., where N is the number of selected points. Split Here reads Split at Selected Points (N), where N is the number of places it will split.
Cut, Copy and Paste Points
Use Cut, Copy to Clipboard and Paste to move or copy points from one route, track, or waypoint list to another, or to a different place in the same list. You can open another item in Points Explorer before you paste.
- Select the rows you want, then open the row menu on one of them.
- Choose Cut selected points (N), or choose Copy to Clipboard and then Selected rows (N).
- Open Points Explorer for the item you want the points in.
- Open the row menu on a row and choose Paste before or Paste after. With more than one point to paste, the label shows how many, for example Paste 3 points after.
Expected result: the points appear in the same order beside that row. Cut removes them from the original item straight away.
- Copy also puts the rows on your system clipboard as text, so you can paste them into a spreadsheet.
- Route and track points can be pasted into routes and tracks. Waypoints can be pasted only into waypoint lists.
- Paste goes beside a row, so the item you paste into must already have at least one point.
- You can't paste into a track while it is recording or paused.
- Undo reverses a cut or a paste.
Reorder Points On Desktop
On Windows and macOS, drag rows to change the point order in a Route or Waypoints list. Tracks keep their recorded order and cannot be reordered this way.
- Open the route or waypoint list in Points Explorer.
- Select the points you want to move. Dragging a selected row carries the whole selection in its existing order; dragging an unselected row moves only that point.
- Drop above or below another row to place the points there, or below the last row to move them to the end.
The new order is saved and syncs with your account. For a Route, it changes the path through the points. Use Undo to reverse the move. Dragging rows to reorder them is available on desktop only.
Edit Several Points
Use an explicit multi-selection when you want to apply one point style to several selected points.
- Select the rows you want to edit.
- Open Properties (N)..., where N is the number of selected points.
- Review each field.
— Multiple —means the selected points have different local choices for that field. - Choose a value to set that value on every selected point, or choose from Activity to clear the local choice from every selected point.
— Multiple — is display-only and is not offered as an action when you open the control. After you choose a value, the control shows the common custom value. No Icon is a deliberate explicit choice; it is different from from Activity.
When you choose from Activity, each selected point resumes following its own Activity. Points with different Activities can therefore use different effective values. Fields you do not change remain untouched, and closing Properties without choosing anything makes no changes.
Expected result: the chosen field is updated consistently across the selection without replacing unrelated point styles.
To control which whole routes, tracks, and waypoints appear on the map, use the eye buttons in Routes, Tracks & Waypoints. See Showing and Hiding Items for the eye states and the map's Hide Item action.