I’ve had my first go at navigating loops downloaded from Ride With GPS with my Elemnt Roam v1 and encountered some hiccups. Not sure if I have not yet fully understood how the Roam works with these kinds of downloaded routes or have simply done something incorrectly.
I downloaded two loop rides for an area that I am visiting. My starting point was not on the routes but not far off - perhaps a kilometre away. When I tried to use the “take me to the route feature” of the Elemnt app, I got an error measure on the Roam screen saying that it could not calculate a route. What would cause this kind of message?
I was able find my way to the routes and from that point on saw the route marked on the Roam with black chevrons and received turn-by-turn directions. However, I did not join the routes at the officially designated start/stop of the ride on the Ride With GPS map and when I reached this point the navigation stopped. No big fanfare congratulating me on finishing the ride, just no more navigation. Is this normal? Is there a way to join a route at something other than the officially designated start/stop and have the navigation continue for the whole route?