[Camino-users] waypoint vs. endpoint

[Michael Zeineh]

Hi all,

I noticed something about waypoints vs. endpoints. Say I want to track from A to C, and I only want tracks that go through B. If I specify A as a seedpoint, and both A and C as endpoints, and B as a waypoint, this should accomplish this task. However, if tracks go through a circuitous root they can go from A to C and then to B afterwards. These tracks will not be filtered by the waypoint filter since they go through the waypoint. However, they will be truncated after the endpoint, so using this approach one can get a track that will not hit a waypoint.

Please let me know if I am doing something wrong, or if this is a limitation of the software at the moment. If the latter is true, maybe it would be better if waypoints were applied after truncation in procstreamlines (though there may be reasons I am not aware of for the current configuration). An easy workaround is applying a 2nd procstreamilnes with just the waypoint filter.

Michael Zeineh