Replotting the beginning of a route

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• John Abell   Sunday 17 May 2026 05:54:48

  I've been using Plotaroute for many years now and thought I had a pretty good grip on how to do things, up until I recently had to alter the beginning of a 70km track through Japan.

  For various reasons I had to alter the first few kilometres of a path leading out of the city of Himeji, but because of the one way roads in some areas, I couldn't for example just shorten the track by moving A a few kilometres along and plote backwards, and similarly reversing the track temporarily so that I could just plot away moving B back to where I want it to be, and then reversing ends again, because the one way roads, or in the case of a dual carriageway road, forces Plotaroute to go on the wrong side of the road.
  
  In the screen print below, I reversed the path so that B is now back at the beginning, and I tried to plot along the one way road the red arrow points at, but as you can see, it instead found its own path around the back streets to get at my click point instead of just turning the corner.

  The only way I can see to do it, and which is what I ended up doing, was to create a new short path for those few kilometres, and then combining it with the shortened original such that it effectively appended the old on to the new.
  
  Am I missing something?

   

   

• Julien Plotaroute   Monday 18 May 2026 06:29:49

  Hi John,

  Can you share the link to your route?

  Thanks,
  Julien

• John Abell   Monday 18 May 2026 08:58:32

  Hi Julien

  I just remembered the reason for the changing the beginning, and it was due to a change of hotel, and so I didn't want to replot the whole route of course.
  
  Here's the route:-
  
  https://www.plotaroute.com/route/3302082?units=km

  In the picture below, the old hotel has the red star, and the original route.  Due to the one way roads, I shifted "A" up to the point I've marked, and attempted to then plot back to the new hotel.  The only way I found to do this effectively was to create a new short path up to a point close to where I shifted "A" on the original file, then combined the two.
  
  

  >>>> Tried to insert a 300k picture here to illustrate the issue, but got rejected <<<<

  Thanks!

  John

• Julien Plotaroute   Monday 18 May 2026 11:14:53

  Hi John,

   

  Sorry you weren't able to post the picture.

  I'm not sure I follow all the steps you went through to change your route.

  Could you have moved the start point by dragging it to the new start location and then used the replot section tool to replot the section from the new start point to the location where the route joins the original route?

  If you have the coordinates of the previous starting point, I could see for myself what the issue was with moving the start point.

   

  Now, about the auto-plot issue below, where the route doesn't take the turn at the junction, this seems to come from the "avoid unpaved" setting.

  If this isn't enabled, the route takes you right at the junction, instead of taking the small roads.

  The result also varies depending on the location you click on. If you click on the road the result isn't the same as if you click on the paths just above/under it.

  Users have reported issues with the auto-plot outcomes here and I have reported it to the devs. This might be such a case, where the result, depending on the addition setting, is not what you might expect.

   

  Julien