Discussion: Route Gadget scaling

I downloaded a route to RouteGadget and the route showed up 2-3 times as big as the map. Can this be corrected? It was really difficult squeezing the route to fit the map and gave an inaccurate simulation. Parts of the route were squeezed more than others and so appeared slower during the simulation.

so if you change the size of the jpg file, would the routes match up better?

If you're talking GPS routes then you have to fit them to the map as they'll never be of the same scale. This is initially done by adjusting the 3 points on the trace, then you can move more - I'm sure you can just follow the instructions as you go through the routegadget upload, or http://www.routegadget.net/grgpshelp/ gives a good overview.

when you have a route that is about 2-3 times larger than the map and you try to adust it with the 3 blue points, parts of the route get compressed more than other parts, and the parts than get more compressed appear to be run slower than the parts that dont get compressed as much. At least that is what it looks like to me.

if the first phase 3 point calibration (affine) feels difficult, you can press ok without any changes and do all editing in phase 2 (rotate/scale). Some users do it always this way.

I dont see where you can do editing in phase 2 (rotate/scale)???

are you using a GPX format???

just drag blue points, it will rotate/scale between those points. It doesnt matter what format you use.