Hi Andrzej, sorry, I forgot the attachment. The difference to yours is that I created a gpx track, not a route. Now I can reproduce your results :-) Reg. Precision: "Correct" results are an illusion. Even the most complex algos will use some simplification (earth is a sphere or ellipsoid, but has no mountains), and when it comes to writing data to the img, we are rounding so heavily that almost all information gets lost. Some numbers: With maps produced by mkgmap, the length of an arc is saved in units of 4.8m, means, an arcs is 4.8 or 9.6 or 14.4 or ... meter long. The bearing is often encoded with only 4 bits, sometimes with 8 bits, means, we have to accept an error of at least 0.7 degrees, and the device doesn't care very much about these values. The problem is that we do also complex calculations based on the calculated values, and here the rounding errors as well as the simplifications play a role. We use the results of these complex calcs to decide if the line a-b-c can be reduced to a-c because the distance between b and a-c is so small that it doesn't matter for the Garmin algos. This means the Garmin program will show the same map and calculate the same routes and travel times with and without point b. I am now going to find out if Garmin draws the line a-c (saved in the img) as a great circle or not, depending on that we have to use different algos. Do you agree? Gerd popej wrote
Hi Gerd,
I use MapSource 6.16.3 and it doesn't show the great circle line when I open the attached gpx file.
I can't see your attachment.
Mapsoruce draws great circle for direct routes (select "Use Direct Routes" in Preferences). I have marked waypoints for LAX an JFK and then created a route form these points. See gpx attached to my post.
In my opinion you should go for a correct solution regardless of speed penalty. I would prefer reliable program over a fast one. Later you probably can optimize some computations, where you know for sure, that error is small.
-- Best regards, Andrzej
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