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Waypoints vs shaping points
Hi Guido. Looks to me like kurviger’s via points correspond to scenic’s stops and scenic’s via points to kurviger’s shaping points. Is that correct? If not what are shaping points in scenic? What would be the distinction between via and shaping when exporting from kurviger and importing to scenic?
thanks.
PS. Kurviger’s shaping points disappear for me in scenic and via points become via points, not stops, but that’s probably because I don’t have pro account in kurviger.
Yes. That's correct.
Kurviger Via => Scenic Stop
BUT
Kurviger Shaping ≠> Scenic Via
Kurviger Vias are always migrated to Scenic Stops. Kurviger Shaping Points are not migrated to Scenic. In stead Scenic adds its own shaping points (Scenic Vias) to make sure the route is followed as designed.
While I was checking this, I discovered a bug that, in some circumstances (with mixed shaping points and via points), transformed a Kurviger Shaping into a Scenic Stop, and caused a Kurviger Via not to be transferred to Scenic Stop. I've corrected this bug now. If you use the 'Send to Scenic' button again, it should be OK now.
Sorry for the inconvenience and best regards,
Guido
Thank you. So would you suggest to avoid shaping points in kurviger in order to ensure the route is imported in scenic more closely to the original? Or does it not make a big difference? Clearly shaping points are there to force a certain route, if scenic discards them, the route is likely to be different. Easier to convert a few stops to vias after import than to redo the fine tuning of the route over the blue track.
Scenic doesn’t discard them at first. It uses them to request the route from Kurviger as you designed it. Only then (after it received the full route geometry from Kurviger) Scenic discards them.
So, if you need a shaping point in Kurviger to force the route differently then calculated by Kurviger, then add it. If the route without shaping point is already what you want there’s no need to include extra shaping points.