Help!: "Follow Roads" causes weird behavior sometimes...!

I am having the same issue...a known bug?

-Chris 

Any Map My Ride staff/tech support people want to chime in on this?

 - Tim

Hi Folks-

 Our dataset for this feature comes from a 3rd party webservice, and I suspect that the degredation is probably on their end, as our code for this hasn't changed since we first released it.  When I test the "follow roads" feature now, it appears to work fine, however I am obviously limited to testing a small set of geographical areas.

 For users experiencing problems, can you please reply in this discussion with more details, i.e. the exact geographical location where you see problems, and the exact symptom of the problem.  For example, is the error a performance degreation, or are you simply unable to plot?

Seems like the place to put this.  In my initial attempt to use this feature I found that it seems to create an infinite number of points along a road instead of just points where you click to put them.  This in turn makes editing the points a near impossibility.  The little + cursor seems to follow along the road and can get to be a real nuisance but the problems with editing are really cumbersome.  I'm going to try creating a route not following the roads and then see if changing to that when it's finished will work.

I have found the same problem, mainly at one-way roads. If you are using 'follow road' you can stop using it to take yourself down the road you want and then click back on follow roads and continue the map.

jaybros06 - never plot a point at an intersection - this is a nobrainer.  It you click on the intersection it can't tell if you're to the right, left,  past, or just before.  The exact intersection does not exit.  It's an abstraction.  So if you click at the intersection - just a half of a millimeter too far and then you intend to go left, it will make a U turn and turn right.  There is no other way for the system to interpret your clicks.

NEVER CLICK ON AN INTERSECTION

Did I say that already?  Ah, yes, see several previous posts.

Click past the intersection on the road you want to turn into. 

Ritterview  -   I find that that extra line disapears on its own if you just ignore it, or change the zoom level.

This site is very frustrating, but it has so much promise that I keep comping back, especially for routes with many turns where I don't feel like reading and typing out all the turns and road names.

RevJ.....  - "follow roads" feature is NOT fairly highway-centric  - it is absolutely highway-centric.  The algorith will find the fastest way to drive to the next point you click on.

If you have a long section that got routed wrong, do not try to fix it by moving points; just click on "Undo" in the right hand toolbar and the problem section disappears. Then continue with a shorter segment.  This method works real nice.  Never click another point until you're sure the one you just clicked was routed to the way you want.  You can "undo" your last click, maybe two;  but you can't undo too many.

This does NOT work the way google maps does where you get a route from point A to point B and then drag a point on the route to modify the route, in effect adding intermediate "via" points.  BTW - "bikely" does not have an undo like MMF's - a big negative in trying to use bikely.