Understanding waypoints
A waypoint is a decision, not a dot. There are two of them - and each one comes with a second question attached.
Ride through, or stop
Ride through. The route picks the point up and keeps going straight past it. This is how you say “over this pass, not the other one” - you are pointing the line, nothing more.
Stop. Here you get off the bike. The route splits into two stages at this point, and you can hang a waiting time on it that counts toward your arrival - fuel, hotel, the café with the view.
The app makes the obvious choice for you: tap bare map and you get a ride-through, tap a place and you get a stop - nobody taps a hotel meaning to ride past it. You can override it every time.
U-turns allowed?
Both types come with the question of whether the route may double back here.
On a ride-through it’s off. You go past, the route keeps heading the way you were pointed - otherwise a hint about direction turns into a U-turn.
On a stop it’s on, because you’re standing still there anyway and will often have to come back out the way you went in: the little road up to the viewpoint has no other end.
Both can be flipped per waypoint.
Close together, small roads
How far apart you set your waypoints tells the route what you have in mind.
Rule of thumb: a waypoint about every 100 kilometers, and your profile comes through in full. A ride-through will do - you don’t have to stop there. The easiest way: put it where you’d take a break anyway, or on a curve you definitely want to ride.
With waypoints farther apart, your profile’s character doesn’t get lost. On a long stretch the route assumes you want to make somewhat quicker progress there, and now and then switches to a faster road. So if you want to rack up kilometers in between, leave the gap wider.
All of that applies when the route is calculated online, with Pro. On the device - with Free, or in a dead zone - it plans in broader strokes by default. In that case, put a waypoint wherever you want the small roads.
When a waypoint counts as reached
What follows is about routing on roads. In NoRoad mode there is no road for anything to be pulled across to - there a fixed radius applies, 100 meters out of the box, and the chapter Profiles and NoRoad spells it out.
A waypoint can sit on the road or beside it - the viewpoint is rarely on the centerline. The route pulls it across to the nearest rideable piece of road, and the circle that counts as “reached” grows by exactly that distance. Plus 30 m of slack.
Which means: the farther your point sits from the road, the more generous the radius. No fixed number that is too tight for one rider and too loose for the next.
No recalculating at the pump
Around that circle sits a second one, 50 m wider. Inside it the app does not recalculate. Roll into the parking lot, swing over to the pumps, take the hotel driveway - the navigator keeps its cool instead of treating your coffee stop as a mistake.