Re: Magic Earth app

On 8/11/24 10:54 PM, Andy Burns wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:
 

I wanted to put a certain route on my phone because I only cared about the twists and turns at the far end.  I was absolutely unable to change the route from what IT wanted.  I finally just wrote the turns on a piece of paper.  Old school, right?  How can it NOT allow you to choose your own route?
 Supposedly you can do it with the web version, but it's like pushing string

 If you use the web version, you can plot a course from start to
destination, then "drag" midpoint(s) to make it go whichever way you want.

Within limits.  Did I mention knots?

There is then a button to "send to phone", unfortunately all that does
is send the start and destination to the phone, which then calculates
the route from scratch, ignoring your alterations in the web version ...
grrr!

I'm just going to let it run and see how many snotty U-turn messages it gives me before it gives up.
Google gives us something nice and then cripples it.  Recently I can't see highway numbers with Firefox, but they show just fine with Chrome.
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Cheers, Bev
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