Enhance your Route with Roadbook points

Complement your track with waypoints, maneuvers, and location comments

With the route and waypoints in the area already created, now it's time to enrich the route. So when we are navigating it, the GPS or the TwoNav App will alert us in advance of the events and highlights we have marked along the route.

When walking or cycling, we enjoy our activity instead of constantly checking the GPS. So, having the GPS notify us a few meters before a maneuver or an important point will be very useful. We'll carry the GPS as navigation aid and for safety, not to be constantly monitoring it.

As we will see, it's not about filling the route with maneuvers, I'll only mark the ones I consider most important and necessary. This way we'll avoid the GPS or the TwoNav App beeping and constantly alerting us. Above all, let's enjoy the surroundings!

Import waypoints to the route

I open the route and the waypoints I've marked before. Now what I'm going to do is 'import' these waypoints to the route. The easiest way to do this is from the Land 9 data tree. Just drag the waypoints file onto the route. This will 'insert' the waypoints closest to the route as roadbook points.

By default, Land 9 will import waypoints that are 400 m away from the route, but we can change this setting. In this example, I have reduced this distance from 400 m to 50 m so that Land 9 does not add waypoints that are too far from the route since I'm not interested in importing waypoints that distant.

Next, I import the waypoints to the route by dragging the waypoints file onto the route.

The waypoints have been automatically imported as roadbook points. We visually differentiate waypoints and roadbook points by the box that contains them. Waypoints are displayed in a square box, while roadbook points are displayed within a circular box.