Wednesday, Aug 04, 2021 at 21:30
The "straight line + 20%" principle will work for some people / some of the time. It may give a reasonable approximation for time and distance in many situations. But don't think it deals with the OP's question and it doesn't really help me.
Some of us are starting out with exploring the more remote parts of oz in ways discussed on this
forum. Our main interest in route planning. The problems with the app discussed in this thread make it difficult to identify candidate routes. It can be very difficult to plan using the app, and the multiple waypoints work-around just makes it more work and annoying.
Re "There are a great number of roads that we exclude from auto routing as in some cases and at some times of the year the ability to use this roads is limited or impossible for vehicle travel or the conditions are unknown" - I appreciate the concern and it's hard to know which ones and how many, but I honestly think that this should be an option that the user could turn on, possibly with a warning. That said, I doubt that the problems that I've had with trip planning and route selection can all be explained by this.
Something else would assist trip planning - more route options. Multiple options are not that common, and when there are multiples it's mostly two. Can't we get more please?
I'm generally happy with the app when on the road, but it's annoying as a planning tool.
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