Distance along route/track other than to start/end

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griggs

• August 04, 2021 23:12

There is currently no good way to calculate distance along a route/track other than all the way to the start or end in "Guide Me" mode. 

Offline routing is a positive step, but since this feature simply takes the shortest path it will often diverge from the route/track I intend to follow, which especially for long-distance hiking, can be completely different.

The only other way to determine distance along a route is to manually count distance markers, but especially for longer distances this can be quite tedious and error-prone.

Perhaps if the user is in "Guide Me" mode a long press on a point along the route they are following could show the distance to that point, along the route? Or as another possibility Guthook has an interface mode that allows the user to long press on two points along a route line to show the distance, elevation change, etc. 

Having used Gaia many times on long-distance hiking trips, the lack of this functionality is one of my biggest annoyances with an otherwise wonderful app.

Thanks!

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  meinradsamuel

  • August 05, 2021 07:25

  I would also absolutely love this. I use gaia a lot for log distance hiking. And with such long routes it is nice to see how long a day section would be. Additionally to see the elevation would be awesome.
  So definitely thumbs up for this one!

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  Anton

  • August 17, 2021 03:56

  Have to agree, if this is not too difficult to implement, it would be a very useful feature. Especially for post analysis of a track

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  airsar

  • August 09, 2022 00:37

  Yes, it's frustrating not to be able to easily extract distances. On the Web app you can easily the Distance/Elevation/Speed graph to get elevation and speed by tracing the elevation of speed graph line, but not distance except by inaccurately estimating it from the graph's axes.

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  pgirard

  • January 31, 2023 18:45

  It would be very helpful if the distance markers are number from the start. When distance markers are set to 1 km or 1 mile, one would easily see how far they have travelled along a planned route. For out and back routes things get very confusing to count markers manually as the markers tend to overlap or come close to each other and you can't tell which direction the marker belongs to.

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  Joel

  • August 20, 2023 11:50

  I googled how to measure distance along part of a route on Gaia and was dismayed to learn I can't. Super useful for planning alternate routes if necessary due to change in weather or whatever. Seems a no brainer,

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