Set colors in via points

[0709wiwiwi]

Be able to set the background color in the via points.
How Cruiser can eventually offer something like this?
How to integrate this into a gpx navigation track transfer ?
Example in #250

[devemux86]

@0709wiwiwi Thanks for the suggestion.

Do users find custom colors in via points useful?

[MotoUKRider]

Perhaps the yellow ViaPoint "pin" could be styled via a supporting GPX and/or via a saved Cruiser app route?

When I plan+navigate, I almost always load a BaseCamp GPX file and this is alongside my exported Waypoint GPX of ~1000 cafes, fuel, hotels, photo-stops etc (which I split into groups and import as a single ZIP using my own PC app). This means I get a yellow pin and a Cruiser Favorite icon at 99.9% of my stops. With that workflow, I can understand the confusion/duplication that @devemux86 is suggesting.

[0709wiwiwi]

No Basecamp, think Cruiser. Select Via point > set color > optionally set icon Cruiser (no serial)

[devemux86]

think Cruiser. Select Via point > set color > optionally set icon Cruiser (no serial)

Indeed, something simple like this.

[MotoUKRider]

@0709wiwiwi I believe that was the jist of my opening sentence, ie: handle it "in app" with the ability (as your original post requests) to specify it via a GPX if you have a supporting creation tool.

With regards the 2nd portion of my post, this was just highlighting my workflow and what I arrive at (in Cruiser). It also re-raises an earlier discussion about "mapping" icons from 3rd-party GPX files into Cruiser using its built-in icon set. So your "church" icon defined in the GPX file would map to the one in Cruiser - it may not be the same exactly but you might at least be able to have a keyword trigger+color combo. A possibility for the future.

That's why I went for the DIY approach and made a Windoze app to process my Waypoints so they appear in 9 Cruiser groups. That takes care of the obvious categories that I rely on.

[devemux86]

Instead of matches that usually don't do what we expect,
it's simpler to import a gpx into a group in favorites
and then select their icon and color within the Cruiser.

[0709wiwiwi]

Anyway by coloring a via point icon differently, the serial number is not lost.
I show how to apply this into a gpx navigation track. It might so be possible.

[devemux86]

Set colors in via points is available for testing in Cruiser 5.8.0 Beta:

• Cruiser 5.8.0 Beta 7 #887

[devemux86]

• Implemented in Cruiser 5.8.1 #891