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RoadBook Builder
Makes a roadbook from a GPX track or from scratch, on the device and even without a network, and opens it in RoadBook PRO.
Your roadbooks
The RoadBook Builder page: the list of your roadbooks and, at the bottom right, the buttons to make a new one.
- New from GPX
- Choose a .gpx file, write the title and press Generate: the notes come from the junctions of the track and from its waypoints. A .rn2 roadbook or an OpenRally GPX is imported ready-made, to edit, and the waypoints stay even with the coordinates hidden.
- Track from scratch
- You draw the track on the map with GPX point or Auto GPX, then press Generate notes.
- From the web
- Takes from your account a roadbook made in the browser. It is the same roadbook: if it is already here, ODOCAP asks whether to replace it.
- Save all
- Above the list, when there are roadbooks to save to your account: it saves them one after the other.
- Rename
- In the row's menu: changes the name of the roadbook.
- Delete
- In the row's menu: removes the roadbook from this device.
- In your browser too
- At the top, the address of the RoadBook Builder for the computer: tap it to copy it. There you sign in with the same ODOCAP account and find the saved roadbooks.
The roadbook rows
Each note is a row: km, tulip and note. Tap it to choose it: it moves to the top, with the orange outline.
- Km
- Press and hold the number, or press Km with the row chosen: write the km you read on the trip and choose Only this note or This and the following. Restore the track km removes the correction.
- Reset the trip here (0.00)
- In the km window: from this note the km start again from zero, as in a roadbook with a trip reset.
- Edit the tulip
- The pencil on the tulip opens it full screen, with its points: see the group The tulip with points.
- The note, enlarged
- In the third column: notes, CAP, symbols and texts can be tapped and moved; + Symbol and + Text add more, Done closes.
- Remove box
- The X removes the note from the roadbook; the back arrow, at the top, puts it back.
- Reviewed: approve
- The green tick marks the note as reviewed; the ✓ button at the top (on the phone Review the next, in the menu with the three dots) takes you to the first one not yet approved.
- Symbols
- The palette of the FIA lexicon: choose a symbol and tap the cell where it goes. Then you move it with your finger; the bar at the bottom enlarges it, turns it, puts it Behind the tulip or removes it. Metres and speed have the number inside: you write it.
- Text
- A free text in the note: a village, the metres, the radius of a waypoint.
- Waypoints
- A waypoint symbol dropped on a note turns it into a waypoint: the cell takes its colour and the window opens with Opening radius and Validation radius, already with the FIA values. Remove the waypoint removes it.
The tulip with points
The tulip opens large and every line is made of points. Drag a point to move it; drag a line to put a point on it and bend it; keep your finger still for the menu; Done closes.
- Add a point here
- From the menu on a line: one more point where you touched it.
- Remove this point
- From the menu on a point.
- New road up to here
- From the menu on an empty spot: a black road from the junction up to your finger. On the roundabout it is New exit here.
- Distance arrow here
- From the menu on an empty spot: the dotted distance arrow; you add the metres with the distance symbol.
- Road type
- From the menu on a road: Tarmac road, Track / piste, Dual carriageway, Small track, Motorway, Path, Low visible track / traces or Off track (HP), each with its symbol.
- End bar
- From the menu on a black road: the bar that says there is no way through.
- Roundabout
- From the menu on the junction, the small green square: the turn becomes a roundabout, and below you choose ring, blue sign or circle.
- + Road
- A new black road starting from the junction.
- + Symbol
- A symbol from the palette inside this tulip.
- Reset
- Goes back to the automatic tulip.
- ↶ Undo
- One step back, without closing.
- Done
- Closes the tulip and saves it.
Map and Play
The map next to the roadbook: the buttons to change the track and Play to run along it. Every button, when you tap it, says what it does.
- GPX point
- GPX point on: tap the map and the point is added to the track.
- Note on this point
- Zoomed in, the track shows dots: they can be dragged, and tapping one opens its menu with Note on this point, Delete point, Select this point, Join and Cut.
- Auto GPX
- On: tap the map and the track reaches that point following the roads; if it goes back over a stretch already done, ODOCAP asks first.
- Ruler
- Tap two points: the metres along the track and as the crow flies. The last measurement is the number suggested for the symbols with metres.
- Search a place
- The magnifying glass: write a place and the map goes there.
- Heading up
- The map turns with the direction of travel; tap again to go back to north up.
- Direction arrows on the track
- Direction arrows on: they show which way the track goes.
- Two maps
- Satellite and road map together, side by side or one above the other: the track is built on both. One map switches back to a single map.
- Update notes
- It appears when you have changed the track: it redoes the notes on the new track, and those outside the stretch you touched stay.
- Play
- A vehicle runs along the track at the chosen speed and the roadbook scrolls to the next note. From the start restarts, To the next note jumps ahead, Pause stops.
- Stop at notes
- Play stops at every note, so you can check them one at a time.
- Undo and Redo
- The two arrows at the top: one step back or forward on track and notes, up to 30.
Export
The green Export button prepares PDF and package and asks what to do with them. The other saves are in the menu with the three dots.
- Open in RoadBook PRO
- Opens the roadbook in ODOCAP's RoadBook PRO, ready for the road.
- Share the PDF
- The roll PDF, to send to whoever you want.
- Save to your account
- The same roadbook in your account, to reopen in the browser or on another device: not a copy. If it has changed in the browser in the meantime, choose Save as a copy or Overwrite.
- Save PRO to the Cloud
- In the menu: the PRO package in the Cloud space of your account.
- Save GPX to the Cloud
- In the menu: the same track in the Cloud space of your account, among the GPX files.
- Download GPX
- In the menu: the track with the waypoints, with their type and radii.
- Roadbook settings
- In the menu: Km stick in the tulips, Coordinates in every note, CAP in the PDF third cell and Roundabouts; Professional style sets them all as in a professional roadbook.
- Road test: pencils on the notes
- In the RoadBook PRO menu, Roadbook tab: on a roadbook made here each note has three pencils, on km, tulip and note, that open the Builder on that cell; Done takes you back to RoadBook PRO. Switch them off during the event.
Remember
- The RoadBook Builder, in the app and on the web, comes with the App + RoadBook Builder level of the subscription and is there during the trial days; the App level does not include it. Without it, opening it shows the offer with the App + RoadBook Builder level highlighted, even during an event; on the web you read that it is activated from the ODOCAP app.
- The roadbook is made on the device, even without a network: the network is needed for the satellite, for From the web and to save to your account.
- Generating from GPX, Update notes and Auto GPX need the navigation of the area, downloaded with its map from the NAVIGATION map, in Offline maps, Navigation maps. Opening, editing and exporting a roadbook do not.
- The waypoints of the GPX file become notes, and the danger signs colour the km on their own: red line with danger 2, red frame with danger 3.
- In Play the active note is the second row, as during the event.
- A roadbook belongs to the ODOCAP account that made it: with another account, on the same device, it is not shown.
- A roadbook changed on the device says to save to your account in its list until you save it.
If something does not work
- If New from GPX says the routing maps are missing, download the area from the NAVIGATION map, in Offline maps, Navigation maps.
- If Save to your account says Changed on the web, choose Save as a copy or Overwrite.
- If in From the web a roadbook says No notes yet, first generate the notes in the browser.
- If a note or a point ends up in the wrong place, switch off GPX point and Auto GPX: with either one on, every tap changes the track.
- If the pencils aren't there in RoadBook PRO, export the roadbook again from the Builder and switch on Road test in the menu.
- If the road map is empty close up, the offline map of that area is missing; the satellite comes from the network.