Routes: navigating and managing your saved routes

A route is simply a series of waypoints guiding you to your destination. Aqua Map makes it easy to create, edit, and navigate routes, with plenty of detail available along the way to keep you informed at every step.

Creating or editing a route

For everything on creating a new route or editing an existing one, head over to the Route Planner page.

Navigating a Route

To start navigating, hit the play button on the route's info page. A window pops up at the top of your screen with all the key details as follows.

At the top, your total distance and estimated time of arrival (ETA).
In the middle, how many waypoints your route has, with your current one highlighted in blue. Use the left and right buttons to move between waypoints manually, or tap any waypoint on the map to switch directly. Tap the blue active waypoint button to open the Route Info page.
At the bottom, the distance, direction, and ETA to your current active waypoint. As long as your GPS is on and the route is active, Aqua Map automatically figures out which waypoint you're at and guides you to the next one.

Worth knowing: if you've set your boat type to "Sail" on the My Boat page and you're actively sailing a route, the ETA switches to using your current VMG (Velocity Made Good), your effective speed toward the next waypoint, rather than raw speed.

The Route info page

You can reach a route's info page three ways: tap the route directly on the map, tap the Route Navigation window described above, or find it from the Search page. Tapping a route on the map opens a pop-up with an info button , tap the route's name in the center of that pop-up instead, and you'll get a list of every object nearby.

From the Route info page, you can:

open Route settings to edit the name, description, color, and visibility, or adjust the route's average speed and fuel consumption;
open Route Explorer for detailed analysis of the route. This requires an active Advanced Tools subscription;
view Total/Remaining info: total or remaining distance, time/ETA, and fuel consumption. If the route is active, time is calculated from your current GPS speed;
browse the Partial info list, covering every waypoint on your route, segment distance and direction, estimated duration for that segment (or ETA if the route is active), fuel consumption for that segment, plus cumulative distance, time, and fuel from the start of the route (or from your active waypoint, if navigating).

The bottom menu gives you the core actions listed below.

Share the route in GPX or KMZ format, via GEC Account, email, or other apps.
Center the map on the route, zooming in and recentering the view.
Navigate the route, this button switches to pause once the route is active, letting you stop navigation with a single tap.
Reverse the route's direction, swapping start and end points. Not available while actively navigating.
Duplicate the route, creating an identical copy automatically set to a white color.
Delete the route permanently.