Track tool: How do I draw tracks on current layer

[wayne]

Suggestion:
I know it pops up on the screen, but in the web based help file please include:
- To stop drawing tracks, right-click and select Save As.  It will save as a new track layer.

Question:
I created a combined track layer; the algorithm did a great job of reducing my sabino canyon tracks into a new layer with multiple tracks and waypoints.

Using the aerial maps, I wanted to draw in a few more trails to exchange with my GPSr so I could know where to go hiking later.

How do I draw a new track (or place a new waypoint) on the current layer?

[ScottMorris]

Hey Wayne,

I think the manual covers it pretty well?

Right clicking brings up a menu that allows                                           
the draw track to be saved into a new file (and subsequently added to the                                         
active list).  IMPORTANT: if you do not right click and use Save As... the                                       
drawn track will not be saved.

To answer your question, you can't right now save into a current layer.  However, that's definitely high on the todo list.  Another user requested that function, and I'd like to see it to.

Thanks Wayne.

[wayne]

I thought I might be missing something, or a step might be missing from the instructions.

Since TF can combine multiple tracks into a single file, I as assuming there was a way for a user to do that as well.  I was reading into a capability I saw the program doing.

You might want to include a comment in the help that each user-created track must be a unique file and maybe that only track averaging can create multiple tracks in a single file.  That would make it clear.

Congrats on the race, I was tracking you and your friends on the website.

[ScottMorris]

Thanks Wayne, for the feedback and the congrats.