Planning Quirk

I tried to create a route using the right-click context menu to select my destination, and then using it again to select a starting point. After clicking plan I get a route that looks reasonable (it goes from the starting point to the destination). But when I click on the Drive button the route changes and the starting point becomes my current location.

That behavior seems both right and wrong. Right because it is the route from my current location to my destination, but wrong because it seems possible that someone might be starting from a place where “you can’t get there from here” (say a position in a “roadless” area, or on a beach where cars are allowed, but which is far from the nearest access point) so they want to start the route from a point that is on the road network. I’m assuming that ABRP would fail to create a route in this case. Maybe when the starting point and the current location aren’t “close enough” (and especially if a route can’t be found to the starting point) ABRP should ask if it should replan from the current location and if the user says “no” display something like “Proceed to starting point” and maybe give a vector to the starting point.

The plans below show the problem. My use case was to try to get ABRP to show me the guidance that it would have displayed at the start of the first route. The second one was a test to see if picking “sensible” start and end positions would change the behavior.

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=3451d560-dbce-4520-bcc1-236420962c92

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=49758f62-b8d6-4dd1-beeb-7ab4cbbebf79