Managing Avoid Points

Managing Avoid Points

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Not satisfied with the route created by the program? Or know that the given route would be inconvenient for you? You can easily manipulate the route to your specifications so that the program will create one that best suits your current travel conditions.

Avoid Points are a convenient way of marking which roads the program should steer clear of while making a route. They are similar to waypoints in that the points are easy to manage. Avoid Points are generally stored in the avoid.way file, but can be saved files of your choosing, like waypoints. Avoid Points are represented on the map by this icon:

Creating and Routing with Avoid Points

You can create Avoid Points before or after creating a route.

1.	Right-click or tap and hold on the road you want to avoid. Make sure that you have zoomed in close enough to pick the correct road.

2.	When the pop-up menu appears, select Add Avoid Point.

If you have already created a route, go to Tools > Waypoints. When the Waypoint window appears, highlight the folder on the left that contains your waypoints, and press Route. A new route will be created avoiding the path previously given. If you have not yet created a route, proceed to create a new route as you normally would. When you have finished, a route will appear, avoiding the roads you specified.

Before adding Avoid Points	After adding Avoid Points

Notice how the Avoid Point forces an alternate route. (PC)

There is also another easy method of creating Avoid Points:

1.	Make sure that you have street maps loaded for the road you wish to avoid.

2.	Zoom in on the location you wish to avoid.

3.	Click / tap on the road. A window will pop up giving you brief information about that road.

Check the box next to 'Then Re-Route' and press Avoid Here. (PC)

If you have already created a route or have marked off specific waypoints within your route, make sure the checkbox next to Then Re-Route is marked. This will automatically create a new route for you. If you haven't created a route or marked off specific waypoints within your route, you can ignore this step.

5.	Click / tap on Avoid Here.

Loading Avoid Points

1.	Go to Tools > Waypoints.

2.	On the Waypoints window, select the Open Waypoint File icon.

3.	Pick the file you want to load, and press Open.

4.	The avoid points should load in the list of waypoint folders and load up on your map.

Deleting Avoid Points

1.	Go to Tools > Waypoints.

2.	When the Waypoints window appears, expand the folder called avoid.way. You should see a list of avoid points within that folder.

3.	Select the avoid point you wish to delete, and click / tap on the Delete icon , or press the Delete key on your keyboard (for PC).

Avoid Points by default are stored in a file called avoid.way (PC)

See Also:

Waypoints Window
Loading/Unloading Traffic Maps
Creating a Waypoint
Creating a Route