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Posting here rather than on the Strava Club post hoping Strava staff will see it.

 

Checking out “New! Adventure at your fingertips – literally” email about the Mobile Route Builder and found a bit of weirdness while trying to set a test route in an area I had a problem with on another platform.  I’ve saved the route if anyone in the support team wants to check it out.  I’m in Mountain Bike Ride mode, I would like to be able to move a route off of singletrack and onto a parallel driveway ( the singletrack isn’t anything special and one end of it is garbage so it’s easier to just use the driveway ).  The problem is you can’t move the point to the driveway.  It keeps bouncing back to the singletrack.  If I try to draw the line by hand it errors with ‘Route could not update.  Try again later.’  Ideally it would follow the green highlight shown below.  The gps coordinates are  39.332827, -76.870197 if you want to see it for yourself.  Maybe I’m doing it wrong?

 

 

 

Maybe it’s a very new road and for some reason Strava already displays it but otherwise don’t know anything about it. Google doesn’t show this driveway: 

 

The driveway is not new but it’s not available for vehicular public access, that’s why it doesn’t show up on Google maps.  It’s an access road for a water treatment plant used extensively by trail users as shown by the heatmap.

 

There you have the reason, Strava won’t route through not public roads and you have to use the “Manual mode” in the web browser route editor.

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