First post... hope I'm in the right "location". I've duplicated a route created by someone else. I'd like to keep the same route, but start and finish at a different point, about halfway along the existing route. Can't find any insight on this. I've tried dragging the start point, rearranging way points, deleting start point, etc. None of these accomplish what I'm attempting. If I click on a waypoint near where I want to start, it lets me "use manual mode", "end here", or "delete". Not "start here". Is it possible to do what I'm attempting? Thanks!
Edit a route so it starts and finishes in a new location along existing route

Best answer by vmich
Actually, Jane's solution didn't accomplish what I wanted. We were starting out with someone else's 280k route with 100 waypoints and a start/finish in the East. I originally wanted to edit so that the start/finish was at a location in the West, but otherwise maintain the route.
In the end, I managed to create what we really needed, which was four new routes – a segment for each day of our tour. FWIW, if someone else is trying to do this, here's what worked for me.
Start by duplicating the original route, and use that to save new routes. (I found I sometimes had to go back and re-dupe the route for some reason.)
A: If the route segment you want is somewhere between the original start and finish.
- Note the numbers of the waypoints you'd like to start and finish at.
- On the builder sidebar, delete all the waypoints AFTER your finish waypoint but PRIOR to the original finish.
- Starting at Waypoint 1, delete waypoints, counting to the number of your start point. You can see the map changing.
- Delete the original start and finish.
- On the map, drag to adjust, if required, the actual location for your start and finish.
B: If the route segment you want crosses over the original start and finish, it gets a bit trickier.
- Note the number of the waypoints you'd like to start and finish at.
- In the builder sidebar, delete all the way points AFTER your finish waypoint, counting per this illustration:
- We wanted 83-9, which crossed through start/finish
- In the builder sidebar, starting at one WP below my finish (10), I deleted, counting up to 82.
3. Then in the sidebar, drag waypoint 1 and others down just before the finish. I had to do this 9 times, until WP 1 jumped up to where I wanted to start on the map.
4. Note: Make sure your road surface type is set. Mine was somehow set to "prefer paved" and it kept rereouting one section, even when I dragged waypoints on the map.
It might have been possible to avoid duplicating multiple deletes by saving interim versions of the map, but it wasn't *too* hard, considering we now have nicely customized day segments that show all the details, including the day's elevations. Hope that helps someone!
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