Text when adding new route
When adding a new route there is a box inviting text. I have used this to include such things as highlighting access issues (eg obstructions), adding text directions to support the GPX "picture", adding distances between intermediate waypoints and more when I feel someone following the route would find these helpful. These are comments I find myself adding when doing a review for a route which has only the GPX file. I wonder if it would be better to review my own route and make the comments there? Just what is the expectation concerning the text box offered when creating a new route?
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Hi Tony, Thanks for collating route info, as you say, it sounds like info "someone following the route would find helpful". Others may make suggestions, but my initial response to your query "I wonder if it would be better to review my own route and make the comments there" is that I can't see any reason why not, or in verifying it as part of the process. Thanks, Rob
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During the early videos about Slow Ways, Dan Raven Ellison said something like "Absolutely, yes, please do review and survey your own added routes"
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Thank you both, Rob and Mary. Encouraged by your comments I am returning to doing surveys for each route I have created (I have already reviewed each). Interestingly, I find myself wanting to say "see review for more detail" so I guess I still haven't resolved in my own mind the separation of the three text entry opportunities!
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Tony, I think I would use it for a brief explanation of why you have created it, such as "new route to avoid problem whatever" or "easier/more accessible/prettier route than existing one".
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Thanks, that. I feel a trifle embarrassed to admit I have just sat through a 90 minute Utube seminar on how to complete a survey which I suspect I should have found at a much earlier stage. Both it and the 30 odd minutes of questions being answered have clarified many outstanding queries I had. Mary you are quite correct that Dan stated emphatically that one can review and survey one's own routes. I also like your last comment.
All we need now is the ability to edit, update, tidy-up and correct earlier submissions - a work in progress I believe!
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Hi Tony,
I resolved this by doing what Mary suggested - see Sanbee Two: Slow Ways: Route Page for Sanbee two
I'll be creating a new review and survey for Sanbee two later this month. I just have to accept that the earlier routes I added will have too much info in the new route area!
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