Automatically convert track to route when saving

[Wole]

Hello,
I automatically export my tracks to Drive.

In Locus there is the option to automatically convert the tracks into routes when exporting.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of this process?

[0709]

Advantages ? None.

Locus simply replaces all (trkpt)trackpoints with (rtept)routepoints.
The export so contains a "direct" gpx route which hardly anyone uses.

When reimporting into Locus, it has serious disadvantages.
As Locus then converts every route point into a waypoint.
This has no added value but mainly pollutes the display.
The app becomes agonizingly slow or possibly crashes.

A rte (route) should only contain the via and shaping routepoints.
Through these route points the route planner can so recalculate.
The chance that the result is different from original is quite high.
Using routes is like a game of chance it often does not result in what you expect.

[solemnboiling]

Routes typically have fewer points than tracks, which means smaller file sizes and faster processing when importing/exporting.

[0709]

A compact gpx route import is possibly fast but after that the slower processing has yet to begin. The app router has to calculate a track to follow and that is an intense process that can take quite a long time and of which you also have to wait and see the result whether you like it or not. Contrary if you import a TBT navigation track, all the necessary is already there. Import press start and go.

[Wole]

I have now automatically converted and saved some tracks, just for testing.

If I load this track (route) now, practically nothing is visible on the map.

You can only make out the points with a bit of imagination. However, this track (route) is completely unsuitable for following by sight.

Thanks for your advice, 0709. I see more disadvantages than advantages.