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I tried this feature on Strava and it is not usable. You just get one swipe to create the route. No zooming or panning during route creation. There's a simple
by markstos 8y ago
I tried this feature on Strava and it is not usable. You just get one swipe to create the route. No zooming or panning during route creation.
There's a simple resolution here: Strava should switch to a more usable interface design. What works better is allowing someone to create a series of dots which they can drag around to adjust, while allowing zooming and panning during route creation.
Strava needs to start over on this feature anyway.
- ericrwolfe 8y agoYeah, while Strava copied Footpath's flashy demo, they kind of missed the point of how people actually plan routes. Most Footpath users have specific routes in mind and prefer zooming + panning to draw their route in multiple, shorter segments. Footpath has some editing tools that improve upon the hold & drag UI you'd normally find on the web.
- frenchman_in_ny 8y agoI just downloaded Footpath, since I'm not a fan of Strava's routebuilder. However, and forgive the ignorant question, how different is Footpath to EasyRoute (which is free, & supports uploads to Wahoo, Strava [iirc], and others)?
- ericrwolfe 8y agoThe end goal of the apps are very similar, though Footpath places a greater emphasis on the route building + editing UI, as well as what you can do with map layers. One aspect of EasyRoute that is pretty awesome is its support for exporting turn instructions to Wahoo + Garmin GPS devices via FIT files (the developer works for Wahoo by day), while Footpath only supports exporting the route data to GPX files right now. Hope that helps.
- frenchman_in_ny 8y agoYep, thanks for the response! It was the FIT export that had me download it initially. Not sure it supports turn-by-turn though; haven't tried recently.