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Hide Other Tracks

roger

## Hide all Other Tracks
### Problem:

I hike similar (or even the same) route in my local area quite often. I often record and then save the track. This will greatly clutter my map.

If I want to follow a slightly differing route, all these previous tracks/routes can add difficulty to recognizing if I’m following the desired route.

I want a way to select a single route (or track) and ask Gaia to temporarily hide all other tracks visible in the current map area. This should be a temporary thing, because I only want to declutter while I’m out on the current hike. I want to easily see the tracks later in the day/week/month/etc., when I return home.

I have noticed that, from the Map view, I can click on the LAYERS icon (upper right) and scroll down to an on/off toggle titled “Tracks.” If I toggle tracks off, that seems to turn off both routes and tracks, so I can’t seem to use that as a means of decluttering to show only planned routes.

### Request:

Create a new feature that works in the following manner.
* The user can touch a route or track located on the map.
* As per the current algorithm, the name of the route/track appears in a flyout. Further, the INFO icon (looks like a “circled-i”) appears.
* Click on the INFO icon.
* This opens the ROUTE info page for the associated route (or track if appropriate).
* Click on the “ellipsis-shaped” menu at the upper right to open a menu of available actions.
* Add the following, new menu item:
* Hide all other routes & tracks visible in the current map area.
* If the user clicks on this new menu item:
* A dialog opens asking how long these other routes / tracks should be hidden.
* Options could include something like:
* Until I finish current track.
* Until I reboot Gaia GPS.
* Permanently.
* At that point, all other routes / tracks that had any portion visible in the map will automatically turn visibility off (for the duration specified).
* If the user repeats the process (touch route/track, click INFO icon, open ELLIPSIS menu), then a new menu item appears:
* Restore visibility of previously hidden routes / tracks.
* This visibility toggle should not affect the long-term visibility that had previously been set for the affected routes / tracks, unless the user specifies “permanently.”
* In other words, once the time period expires, visibility for each affected route / track should return to what had previously been set for each affected route / track.

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Comments

13 comments

Date Votes
  • Howard Homesley

    You could put all tracks for an area in a folder. Than you can choose to hide that folder. I do this and it works well. 

    -4
  • itllgrowback

    I'd like to second this request.  Even if it were simply the ability on the Routes or Tracks List view to toggle all items' visibility on or off.  Then, the user could toggle back on only the route he or she wished to have active. 

    This is different than turning Routes or Tracks Visibility On or Off - that method turns off ALL routes or ALL tracks, including the one the user wants to see.

    The way I think the OP and I would like to see is simply a means to toggle all routes off and then viewing one exclusively - (or more than one). 

    Here's what I imagined (but I think the OP's idea is much more well-thought-out):


    Again, the above suggestion is different than turning Route/Track visibility On or Off.

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  • laniadvokat

    Has this request been updated? I think its a great idea and I am in need of the same thing

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  • dwideman5

    Please, I want this as well !!

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  • Collin

    Please add my vote for including this feature.

    6
  • Fitz

    C'mon guys! Let's go!

    2
  • denisgaudet
    Edited

    Ditto! My buddy and I use Gaia and cursed on multiple occasions that this feature is not yet available :( Please add what seems like a simple and obvious feature to toggle "show all" and "hide all" tracks/routes/waypoints/etc as makes sense.

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  • donn

    Add me to the list. I have hundreds of tracks that get in the way.

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  • Howard Homesley

    A “hide all track’s except selected and current” seems like it would do the trick.

    1
  • Fitz

    4-years, and no action. I'm starting to think that no one @ GaiaGPS is monitoring this stuff.

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  • Howard Homesley

    You can organize tracks into folders and hide selected folders.

    -2
  • junk

    I'd like to put my vote in for this as well...if you have many, many tracks as well as GPX files in your library, it can be really hard to filter everything out and your map becomes a mess when trying to follow a single route/track. If there were a way to single out a specific route for a single navigation session that would be awesome!!

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  • dfkotz

    This is exactly the feature I've been seeking!   I see the original request is from FIVE years ago... I sure hope Gaia implements it soon.

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