Planned Route
In this section of the screen you
will see the sections of your journey as you add new location and build up your
route. Clicking on each of these
sections will highlight the section on the map.
Underneath the list of sections a
summary of the trip totals are displayed:
·
Distance
·
Duration
· Locks
Map
An illustrative map is displayed at the top right of the screen. The map will change automatically depending on the context at the time. Unlike the main map you will not be able to control this map at all, other then choosing using the settings menu and selecting or de-selecting the option to ‘show cities on map’
Route Options Tab
Within the Route Options tab you should enter the name of your route. You should make the route name something meaningful as the route name will be used to load up the route.
The show intermediate locations
tick box will toggle on or off whether the
Partition Route Options - See Partitioning a Route for more
information on dividing up a route.
Add Locations Tab
To add a new section to the trip,
you will use the add location functionality. In order to ad a new location you
will need to:
1)
Select a waterway from the drop
down list with ‘Adjoining waterways only’ option selected (default). This enables you to build up the route
section by section (As per Canal Planner 7) because only valid adjoining
waterways will ever be displayed in the waterways drop down list.
2)
Select a waterway from the drop
down list with ‘Any waterway (finds quickest route)’ selected. This enables you
to add a location from any waterway (not just the adjoining waterway). Canal Planner will then find the quickest
route from the previous added location to this new
location.
3)
Enter some text into to the ‘Search
for location box’, and click ‘Search for location’. This method will present a list of
matching locations for you to choose from. Please note that if you have
adjoining waterways only selected the set of matching results will be limited to
locations on adjoining waterways.
You will notice (if not the start location) that the list of locations has a location called ‘no stopping point’. This location can be used if you don’t wish to log a particular location in the route summary.
Selecting ‘my locations only’ will only show locations which are also in the ‘my locations’ list.
The section options values at the bottom are provided such that if the section you are adding will have different values to the rest of the journey, you can configure this section only to have alternative values to the rest of the route. This is a common selection when your route contains a section on a river.
You should notice that as you select different waterways and locations, the map will change to illustrate where on the waterways system the selected waterway or location resides.
Once you have selected your
waterway and location (or ‘no stopping point’) then you can click the ‘Add
Location to route’ button to add this new section to the
INSERTING A LOCATION/SECTION INTO THE MIDDLE OF A ROUTE
In order to add a new location / section into the middle of a route, you should highlight the section which you want to come before the new location. You can then find a location as detailed above, but instead of using 'Add Location' which will add a location to the end of the route, you should use 'Add location after selected point'
Route Section Tab
Once a route section has been added
to the route, if you click an individual section you will see
that
1)
The map changes to display this
section on the map
2)
If the route section tab you will
see a list of location comprising the section. Clicking on a location will display the
features at that location and also any photograph.
It is here that it is then possible to make changes to the section if desired.
Section Speeds: You can update the calculation variables for this section. Speed, Lock delay and moveable bridge delay. Any changes to these values will apply to this section only.
Moor-up overnight:
You can select a location from a section and tick 'moor up overnight'. This is used to manually divide up your route into a number of days. When you select 'Update this section' you will see that the planned route section now divides your route into more than one day.
In order to save any changes you will need to click ‘Update this section’.
For more information, see Partitioning a Route.
Remove this section from route:
Remove section enables you to
delete the highlighted section of your route.