Re recently introduced feature for i-Phone and Android:
(Using Android, latest version and latest CT; on Samsung Galaxy.)
I am finding the operation of this feature to be inconsistent. Selecting some Routes always results in highlighting as intended (eg Route 10); on some Routes, highlighting works intermittently ie whole route or none (eg (R72)); some never gets highlighted (eg R7) . Where the highlighting fails, the map has nevertheless detected that the tap was on the Route, as the pop-up that names the Route does appear, consistently.
The behaviour appears to be the same regardless of whether a self-created planned route (blue line) is being displayed or not. Logging off and logging on makes no difference, nor does completely exiting CycleTravel and restarting (I have not tested whether having a simultaneous session on the website makes any difference.)
Note there is a message on the Cycling UK forum on 4th Oct from MrsHJ querying the operation of the highlighting, which appears to arise from similar experience..
HTH.
Comments
The information needed for cycle.travel to display a whole route is encoded in the map ‘tiles’.
It’s only recently that this information has been added to the tiles, and it’s possible that your phone is keeping the older tiles (without this information) around. This will certainly happen if you’ve previously downloaded the areas as offline mapping, but it could also happen if your phone is caching the tiles – i.e. the operating system remembers the map tiles from last time you viewed them, and shows these rather than asking the c.t map server for fresh ones.
If you’ve downloaded offline maps, you can clear them by going to the ‘Offline map’ option in the Settings menu, tapping the squares so they’re unhighlighted, then clicking ‘Download’ when you’re done.
Thanks for the explanation/resolution. I had downloaded offline maps for all the areas of the examples I quoted; explains why R7 never worked. Perhaps the reason R10 always worked was that a small part of the route was in an area I had not downloaded? Not obvious why R72 sometimes worked as that was fully covered by downloaded maps. However, the good news is that having now re-downloaded all the previously offline maps, the highlighting of all the example Routes is now functioning as expected.
I have now also tested some Routes in areas where I had never downloaded offline maps. All work perfectly.
Many thanks, as always.