Feature Requests: three related editing requests

davidetommaso:1. if one creates a route, saves, then goes back to edit at a later time/date, it's impossible to correct or delete one section of plotting -- your options are limited to keeping the error in or starting the route all over again.

Are you aware that you can drag/drop your route points? You should be able to use this mechanism to correct your route. If you're unfamiliar with this feature, our "advanced editing features" tutorial video shows how to do it. Check it out here.

2. While plotting a longer route, it's impossible to save in an edit mode, so if you need more time to plot than you have, you basically need to either finish and save or abandon what you've done already and start all over again.

I'm not quite sure what you mean here.  We expect that you should be able to save your changes from edit mode.  If you can't, that's certainly a problem.  In general, there are some performance issues for really long routes (which I'll address below)

3. When plotting a longer route -- with twists and turns, it is better for the browser's scripting to create, say, one inaccurate continuous loop and return for fine tuning after saving? I created a 60+ KM route by plotting every twist and turn (via sat map) and it takes forever to load now, and editing is nearly impossible.

As you have seen, the site does get slower while plotting longer routes.  This is natural, as your computer is processing a lot more data when a route contains many points.  However, we have some tips to help with this. 

 First, if you're not already using Firefox, we highly recommend that you do.  Firefox's performance on sophisticated 'Web 2.0' apps such as ours is a world better than on IE.  If you're currently using IE, I think you'll see a huge difference if you switch to Firefox.  

 Second, you may want to try restarting your browser.  Firefox can sometimes get in a state where it's memory leaks to the point of degrading its' performance.  If you're on Windows, you can check this through the task manager and looking at the Firefox process.  I've often seen firefox.exe taking up 400mb of memory or more, which is way too much.  In these cases, restarting the browser makes things a lot faster.

Third, if you're already on Firefox and still see performance issues, the best upgrade you can make to improve performance on our site is to increase the amount of RAM in your system.  For plotting long  routes, we recommend a system with at least 1GB of RAM, but more is even better.

 In the future, we plan on enhancing some of the routing features to increase performance for long routes, but until then, these tips should help quite a bit.

If you're seeing a distance of 0km while editing, this is a problem that we need to fix.  Please let us know if you can get a repeatable case of this. 

Have you added new points? I have just noticed that the function to add point (click on point, then choose add/delete tab) actually breaks the route... the new point does not seem to be connected to the existing route. Moving existing points, however, works.

As I understand it, you CANNOT edit routes using the "follow road" setting, right?

 Even moving points I found that the map changed but the printout route did NOT change...?

To this add:  let's say you have a route that essentially creates a big loop.  It goes out a few roads, let's say a, b, c then branches off on a loop to the south on  d,  e, and f.   Eventually  it loops around back to the north  and connects back into c again, then b, and then a back to finish at  the start point.

Using your follow roads feature, since there are already points on c, b, and a when I get back to them I am unable to add the return points.  If I click on the loop feature it just draws a line straight back to the starting point totally ignoring any roads.  

This is not an "out and back" type of course because it does not go a, b, c, d and then d, c, b, a ... if you follow.  There's a loop in the middle so it could kind of be described as an out and back with a loop.  But as far as I can see there is no way to make your software produce this map.

The map in question, still incomplete is sharis map in my profile.  The last point in it is where the loop ends and I need to be able to follow the roads I started with in reverse order back to the starting point. 

I am experiancing the same problem I am using IE 7