Increase route stops limit (currently 3)

[anibyl]

When planning a route, you're able to add stops to it. Currently you can add up to 3 of them (A, B, C).

It would be good if we could have more; it would be even better if there was no limit.

[abtech42]

i'm agree with you.

[biodranik]

We have increased the stops limit in the last update to 100. Hope it's enough.

[919nick]

Are there any plans to be able to change the order of the waypoints?

[biodranik]

@919nick can you please provide a route example (from another app), so we can understand why and what is not working in OM?

[919nick]

Here's a link to a route that I was trying to duplicate in OM.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12VMCFRIDH3rAiGmhhPbqpa3da9uv3EpP/view?usp=sharing

After a few attempts I did get OM routing to follow this route. It's just that if it reorders the waypoints I have to delete them and try again. It would be much easier to be able to control the order of the waypoints.

[biodranik]

Thanks, clear! What would be the best UX way to add stops manually, and to help build the most optimal path?

[919nick]

I think the Kurviger app does a good job of this. You can manually select a waypoint or shaping point and drag it around, or display a list of the waypoints and reorder them. In my opinion, what I like so much about OM is the clean and simple interface. Just being able to manually drag a waypoint to a spot would be enough. Off course saving the route once it's created would be even better! :)

[pastk]

A classic approach to it is to make the points re-arrangeable by user, but it will require the most development effort I guess.

The easiest way to do it is just do not rearrange the stops automatically - leave them in the order user has added them. That's the default behavior of the most navigation apps.

However some users might want the automatic re-arrangement feature still, e.g. when adding a lot of intermediate points in random order to make sure the route adheres to some wanted shape. Maybe add a button like "optimize stops order" or a checkbox "ignore stops order"...