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#130
Originally Posted by gnuite
It already works this way.

Downloading a route with auto-update replaces your current route because the auto-update must update from your current location to a single location (the entered destination), so it doesn't make sense to append an auto-route to the end of another route.
I apologize for not being clear enough about what I'm after, heheh, but I am not asking for the functionality because I discovered last night that you programmed it that way already.... I was hoping (when your plate isn't so full with the other stuff) that you would make a way to enter the multiple routes more streamlined for faster data entry. I am happy to feedback the idea to save you the hassle. It could go like this....

Route>Download.... popup window. Route popup window has these features, as discussed from previous threads plus this one:

1) Use GPS location checkbox (in its current pos)
2) Auto Update checkbox (in its current pos)
3) Origin and Dest text box (in cur pos)
New:
4) Swap button (swap Origin fields with Dest by clicking once)
5) Clear Fields button. (Data in Origin and Dest fields should remain populated until cleared by user in order to expediate item #4 from this list.
6) 'Grab Dest' button. This could be the defacto multiple route feature, so it would be to where we append our routes. (This button grabs the Destination coords from the previous route added by user but puts it in Origin field automatically because we're appending another route now, so auto-update feature greys out to prevent being checked. Destination field clears to make room for the next destination to be typed in.)

This feature would just make it very fast to load multiple routes.

And... I'm still gunning for all non-current the routes being another color until you get to them, so you need to number each route internally as the user adds thrm via the Grab Dest button, etc...

Examples of full concept: Say I'm taking the family on a vacation. Disneyland, Six Flaggs, and Universal. I load all three via 'Grab Dest' one at a time and set off. Disneyland is green, the other two are yellow on my route. I get to Disney, and head toward Six Flaggs, Disney turns off, my new route Six Flaggs turns green, Universal is still yellow. Once we get to Six Flaggs, it turns off and now turns our Universal route green. This coloring system also prevents confusion when lines cross on multi routes ... because only the current route will be green. (I say green and yellow here only to clarify my idea, each color can be whatever each user defined in their own Colors setting.)

Or say I type in an addy to a party. After six hours of hilarity, it's time to go, but it's dark and I can't remember the way out. I bring MM up from the desktop and go into Route>Download and click Swap, and hit ok. Voila! The way out!

Once this multi-route functionality is added (IF) we might then ask for a way to reorganize our routes to save gas. Say we have 8 places on our route, and 3 of them nearly overlap by a few blocks.... could we move routes around to put those three together 1...2....3.... in order? We often times can't tell how close deliveries will be until after we've added in all of our address in MM and then pan around the map, but a lot of green lines makes it confusing. We might at this point need a way to visualize all the Destinations more easily by turning off the green lines and just have a flashing dot where your destinations are to see which ones are close in order reorganize them? In this 'Destination Visualization' mode, each Dest has the number floating over it that you entered it as. If we click on that Destation's flashing icon, a window pops up with 16 buttons numbered 1 through 16 that reads "Swap With Which Item #?' You then pick something else. We could do all of our reorgs, and then exit that mode to reenable MM's regular use. Just a thought....

I hope I am helpful here and not an irritant, hehehe. Yours truly,

ceklund
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Last edited by Ceklund; 2006-07-15 at 19:02. Reason: more ideas keep flooding my mind.....