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Weird side steps
I'm a new user to Scenic, downloaded the iOS app and just purchased Premium and tried the first round trip planning. I downloaded the offline map for my country (Germany). Now I found that the app creates some weird "side-steps" for the route and even doesn't match the via points on that step. I wanted to attach a screenshot but the max. size allowed is 1MB which way too small. What am I making wrong? Thanks for your reply. @guidomm
Hi there...it's possible that sidesteps are created in some circumstances, but you should be able to solve those easilty by removing or moving a via point. I've increased max file size limit to 5MB. Use the 'Add Media' button above.
This is the screenshot I was referring to. See Via-Point 12 which was not hit and which created that funny detour? I just removed it and it was all good, but I was trying to understand why this happens in the first place. 😉
BTW: I did a first 300km tour today and the app was working like a charm. Thanks for this!
Well...it happens because Kurviger (the curvy routing provider) and Scenic's routing engine, have different algorithms. When you generate a curvy route (or round trip) That round trip is requested from Kurviger. Kurviger sends back a list of coordinates which Scenic feeds to its routing engine... this can lead to this strange behaviour. What could also help in these cases is to change the routing mode of Scenic. Maybe from efficient to short.
Basically, requesting a curvy route or round trip is the same as importing from a GPX file, so everything that is mentioned here ( https://scenicapp.space/blog/knowledge-base/strange-loops-while-importing/ ) also applies for that.
hope this explains a bit further.
Cheers,
Guido