Edit a Route
Use Route editing when you need to correct, extend, reorganise, or restyle an existing Route.
Open The Route
- Open Routes, Tracks & Waypoints.
- Find the Route in your library.
- Open Properties... to change its details, Activity, or appearance.
Other actions include Move..., Duplicate, Reverse, Continue Route on desktop, and Edit Mode for changing the line on the map.
Duplicate A Route
Use Duplicate to make a separate copy before trying a different route or reversing it. Changes to the copy leave the original Route unchanged.
- Open Routes, Tracks & Waypoints and find the Route.
- Open the Route's action menu and choose Duplicate. This is available on desktop and mobile.
- Find the copy in the same folder, immediately after the original. Its name has copy added, for example Ridge copy. Further copies are numbered Ridge copy 2, Ridge copy 3, and so on.
- Open the copy's Properties... if you want to give it a different name.
The copy keeps the Route's points, details, Activity, and custom appearance. You can undo a duplication with Undo.
To walk the route in the opposite direction while keeping the original, choose Reverse from the copy's action menu. Then use Edit Mode to move, add, or delete points on the copy, for example to turn a circular route into a figure of eight.
Duplicate also works on Tracks and Waypoint groups. Duplicating a Waypoint group copies all its waypoints. Folders cannot be duplicated.
Choose An Activity
In Properties, choose an Activity from Favourites or its category. The Activity supplies the Route's calculation assumptions and appearance values. For how Activities and a Route's own values fit together, see Activities Explained.
Changing Activity does not remove the Route's custom appearance values. Properties rebuilds immediately so you can see which values now come from the new Activity.
Change Appearance
Each property shows one of two sources:
- from Activity follows the selected Activity
- custom belongs to this Route
Choose a value to make it custom. Use Reset beside one property to return it to the Activity value immediately. Use Reset appearance to reset every appearance property without changing Activity.
To hide the Route's point symbols, open Symbol and choose No symbol. This is a custom choice; reset it when the Route should follow its Activity's symbol again.
Points With Their Own Symbol
For a custom PNG image, open Symbol > More icons…, then use Import in the Select Icon picker. See Import and Manage Icons for screenshots, favourites and file requirements.
A route point can have its own symbol or label settings, set in that point's Properties. A point's own value wins over the Route's, so changing the Route's symbol does not change that point. Set Activity... on a folder leaves it in place too.
When some points have their own values, the Route's Properties says how many and offers Make all points follow the route. Choose it to remove those points' own symbol and label settings so every point shows the Route's. This is one undoable change.
Edit Several Routes And Tracks
On desktop, select any combination of Routes and Tracks, then open Properties....
— Multiple — means the selected items do not currently share one Activity, source, or value. Choosing an Activity or custom value applies it to every selected item. Reset and Reset appearance also apply to the full selection as one undoable change.
Fields you do not change remain untouched. Changing Activity preserves local custom values; resetting appearance preserves Activity.
Other Route Tools
- Edit Mode changes the Route line on the map.
- Split and Merge breaks a Route into parts, or joins a folder of Routes back into one.
- Points Explorer supports point-by-point review.
- Profile shows the shape and height profile.
- Print is available on desktop for a paper copy of the Route area.