sometimes ROUTE doesn't snap to existing roads

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MechEngr1

May 15, 2023 12:08

I'm laying out lots of potential routes for me and my new bike.  On my windows pc.  I select CREATE ROUTE and set the mode to CYCLING and start clicking along the road.  Usually the high-lighted line snaps to the curves of the road, giving me the correct mileage for my future ride.  But sometimes it takes a straight line between clicks, as if I suddenly took flight over fences and barns.  This is all out in the country, and it's not snapping to some other street or road, cuz there ain't other streets or roads.

Wuzzup with this?  Is there some distance limit where it stops snapping to the existing road?

On a positive note, going from computer to iphone is seamless.  I lay out the route on the PC, go to the garage to get the bike, and when I start Gaia on the iPhone, there's my new route!  No need to upload or download or transfer.   

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  chadrichardson73

  September 12, 2024 03:42

  Having the same issue. I'm building a route, it starts by snapping, then after a bit, it stops snapping.

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  Kevin Ferriter

  October 13, 2025 15:41

  Was there ever a solution for this issue?   I’m having the same problem on my iPhone as I try to create a route for a motorcycle ride.  

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  Chris Hillbee

  • Community moderator

  October 14, 2025 15:50

  Hey there. The Snap-to-Trail feature utilizes OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. Sometimes, there might be a little gap in the trail in OSM which prevents snap-to-trail routing from working as expected. Can you make Gaia Topo the active map layer and then zoom in and see if there are any very small gaps in the trails in the area where you are trying to make the route? If so, that's likely the cause. 

  You can actually contribute to OSM in order to add trails and fix features like this one on the map. Read more about this and find instructions here: https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022983894-Contribute-to-OpenStreetMap. If you make OSM changes, you'll likely see those reflected in Gaia GPS in a few weeks. 

  In the meantime, you can workaround this little trail gap by placing routing points just before and after the gaps in the trail.  The routing tool will default to straight lines across the gap, but should snap-to-trail in other places.
   

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