Whilst I have always had MyRoute loaded onto my iPhone and Mac, I have never used it.
Now that I have the Connected app and am fairly certain that I now know the basics of how it works and that it seems to work pretty reliably. I thought I'd have a go at using both together.
To do this, I:
A. Created a basic route from Calais to the Belgian border and back into France again, by just tapping around in MyRoute on my large screen Mac. That was fairly simple to teach myself how to do. The maps (I chose the default OpenStreet map and the selectable Michelin map) were both very clear.
B. I created a link to the route I'd created and emailed it to myself.
C. I opened the email on my iPhone, clicked on the link and the route opened up in MyRoute on my phone.
D. I then opened up the Connected app on my phone and by tapping around (guessing in other words) I discovered how to get the route from MyRoute into Connected, safe in the knowledge that I couldn't break anything.
The method was:
Connected
Bottom of the Home Screen, in black, top on the second from the right symbol that looks like two mountains.
Top of the 'two mountains' screen, tap the symbol on the right that looks like route with a pencil.
Back to the MyRoute app, top right hand corner Page Menu.
Select 'Save as'. I just chose gpx 1.1, just on the grounds I knew I wanted a gpx file version.
Up popped a fresh screen, from which I selected 'Open in Connected'.
Connected then opened automatically.
There were two versions of the route available, one I took to be the detailed version, with 3481 support points, the other much more basic straight line version with 11 support points.
Just to see what happened, I selected both versions.
Both imported seamlessly.
The first version is, as far as I can tell, perfect. I'd be happy to use it.
The second is, as I expected, just straight lines. I can discard that or use the Connected app to convert it, which it will do but according to my preference settings. I still need to work out and properly understand how this works exactly.
Thoughts:
A. Having never used MyRoute before, it was all a bit of a learning curve but quite painless.
B. I can understand that I need to get the route from my Mac onto my iPhone and into the Connected app. I did this via an email but I am wondering if I can BlueTooth it across.
C. I wonder if I am getting the route from the email into MyRoute on my iPhone and then into Connected the hard way? I am not very familiar with using files and folders on my Iphone but I suspect the answer lies there, perhaps?
D. Either way, the process worked and, despite being a numpty and having to guess what I was trying to do, it was all pretty quick.
E. It will be useful for creating routes when away from home, using MyRoute on my large iPad, though it's annoying that I cannot have the Connected app on my large iPad, as then I could just use that for route creation and cut out a stage entirely. There again, if I am away from home with my MacBook Air, I can just use BaseCamp to create a route and export that, so it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.
F. Overall, pretty neat, so far. For a new(ish) app, Connected, seems to be pretty good, straight out of the box.
Now that I have the Connected app and am fairly certain that I now know the basics of how it works and that it seems to work pretty reliably. I thought I'd have a go at using both together.
To do this, I:
A. Created a basic route from Calais to the Belgian border and back into France again, by just tapping around in MyRoute on my large screen Mac. That was fairly simple to teach myself how to do. The maps (I chose the default OpenStreet map and the selectable Michelin map) were both very clear.
B. I created a link to the route I'd created and emailed it to myself.
C. I opened the email on my iPhone, clicked on the link and the route opened up in MyRoute on my phone.
D. I then opened up the Connected app on my phone and by tapping around (guessing in other words) I discovered how to get the route from MyRoute into Connected, safe in the knowledge that I couldn't break anything.
The method was:
Connected
Bottom of the Home Screen, in black, top on the second from the right symbol that looks like two mountains.
Top of the 'two mountains' screen, tap the symbol on the right that looks like route with a pencil.
Back to the MyRoute app, top right hand corner Page Menu.
Select 'Save as'. I just chose gpx 1.1, just on the grounds I knew I wanted a gpx file version.
Up popped a fresh screen, from which I selected 'Open in Connected'.
Connected then opened automatically.
There were two versions of the route available, one I took to be the detailed version, with 3481 support points, the other much more basic straight line version with 11 support points.
Just to see what happened, I selected both versions.
Both imported seamlessly.
The first version is, as far as I can tell, perfect. I'd be happy to use it.
The second is, as I expected, just straight lines. I can discard that or use the Connected app to convert it, which it will do but according to my preference settings. I still need to work out and properly understand how this works exactly.
Thoughts:
A. Having never used MyRoute before, it was all a bit of a learning curve but quite painless.
B. I can understand that I need to get the route from my Mac onto my iPhone and into the Connected app. I did this via an email but I am wondering if I can BlueTooth it across.
C. I wonder if I am getting the route from the email into MyRoute on my iPhone and then into Connected the hard way? I am not very familiar with using files and folders on my Iphone but I suspect the answer lies there, perhaps?
D. Either way, the process worked and, despite being a numpty and having to guess what I was trying to do, it was all pretty quick.
E. It will be useful for creating routes when away from home, using MyRoute on my large iPad, though it's annoying that I cannot have the Connected app on my large iPad, as then I could just use that for route creation and cut out a stage entirely. There again, if I am away from home with my MacBook Air, I can just use BaseCamp to create a route and export that, so it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.
F. Overall, pretty neat, so far. For a new(ish) app, Connected, seems to be pretty good, straight out of the box.
