Smart Planner plans a route to a budget: a distance, a time or a number of calories. Add it in the routing properties of the route editor, choose the kind and enter the value. The route is planned to fit, and planned again after every change you make. While a search runs, the row shows its progress and a Cancel button.
| One Way | From the first to the last waypoint. Every segment takes a detour, so the whole route uses the budget. |
| Round Trip | Out through your waypoints with the detours, then back to the start the shortest way. |
| Out & Back | The way out uses half the budget. The way back follows the same path. |
Your waypoints are always visited. When the way out has several segments, each gets extra in proportion to its direct length, so no single segment takes the whole detour.
The direction (°) next to the value aims the route. It appears only while there is a single waypoint. As soon as there is a second one, that waypoint sets the direction.
A time or calorie budget becomes a length through your pace and personal profile, climbing included: the same estimate the Estimate section shows. See How do I set the pace for a route? The planned route lands within about 12 % of the budget.
If the direct route through your waypoints already needs more than the budget, the editor shows the direct route and says by how much the budget is short. No waypoint is removed.
Smart Planner plans on the map data stored on your device. If map data for the area is missing, it downloads it first (the row shows "Loading map data…"), connects the waypoints the usual way meanwhile, and plans again once the data has arrived. If it still finds nothing, for example offline, the row says so. If only part of the area is downloaded, the route can also fall well short of the budget; when it is more than a quarter off, the row shows what it came to. See why trails and waymarks need a download first.
Type the value with its unit, or just a number. Time takes 90, 90 min, 1,5 h, 1h30 or 1:30; distance takes m, km, mi, ft and yd, such as 6,5 km or 3 mi; calories are kcal. The field keeps the unit you typed (1,5 h stays 1,5 h, 120 stays 120 min), and the route remembers it. A number without a unit uses the unit shown beside the field.
The value applies when you press Return (on iPhone, Done on the keyboard) or leave the field, so the route isn't planned again for every digit you type.
A saved route opens with exactly the course you saved. It is planned again only once you change something.