RouteGadget

[NFKleanne]

Is there a way of missing a chunk of route out when you did not know where you were, or a way of indicating you were not even on the map?

[andypat]

Is there a way of missing a chunk of route out when you did not know where you were, or a way of indicating you were not even on the map?

You could buy a GPS like I did!

[NFKleanne]

I think I might need to, but then the page may still not have been big enough. I went a bit wrong, and even with google earth cannot work out where I went!!!

[mappingmum]

Yeah that's why I bought a Garmin 405 - to learn from my headless chicken moments.

I've seen people just red line their route in RG for bits they didn't do. But normally you work it out backwards based on where you were when you realised your position again(if that makes sense).

[Paul Frost]

The Gadget spreads your time out evenly along the route that you draw for each leg. This may not be accurate, particularly if you had trouble with any part of the leg. If you wandered around in some location make sure to include a lot of fine detail in your drawing, even if you don't know exactly where you were. This will appear to slow the animation in that area (and not on the part of the leg where you did well). You can also artificially introduce a pause if, for example, you stood for a minute relocating. You can show this by creating a small tick mark across your route and oscillated back and forth in place on the tick mark for awhile when you are drawing the route. Then the animation will also appear to pause at the same location. You can press the +3sec button once or more to add your thinking time at a particular point. (* On Mountain Marathons the 3 sec pause is 30 sec as the animation process is speeded up by 10 to allow for the long times involved compared to orienteering.)
From the RouteGadget UK site-How to draw a route