A path network tells Mapvera where people can walk. To let a visitor say "take me there", each place they can head to has to be a destination the routing graph knows about — and the network has to physically reach it. This guide covers how a place becomes routable and how it connects.
Landmarks with the Wayfinding action
The everyday way to make a place routable is on the Landmarks tab. Open a landmark, set its Action to Wayfinding, and it becomes a place visitors can get directions to. Any landmark without that action is still shown on the map, it just won't appear as a directions destination.
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Open the landmark
On the Landmarks tab, click the landmark you want people to be able to route to.
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Set Action to Wayfinding
In the landmark's Action dropdown, choose Wayfinding.
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Repeat for every destination
Do this for each place that should be selectable as a "to" (and, if you allow it, a "from").
How a destination connects to the network
Marking a landmark as a destination isn't enough on its own — the route has to be able to arrive. Mapvera connects a destination to the network by geometry:
| Destination style | How it links in |
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| Location zone (MLOC) | If a place is drawn as a zone shape in your artwork and a path line ends physically inside that zone, the route connects to the zone. The zone's own ID is used as its name — path names are never consulted. |
| Point landmark | A path that reaches the landmark's point links the route to it, so directions can end at that pin. |
The practical rule is the same either way: bring a path up to (or into) every destination. A landmark marked for wayfinding but left stranded away from the network can be selected, but no route will draw to it.
Check your destinations are reachable
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Count them in the console
When Mapvera builds the graph it logs how many destinations it found (in the
[mapvera-routes]report). If that number is lower than you expect, a place either isn't marked for wayfinding or the network doesn't reach it. -
Test a route to each place
In the preview, pick each destination and confirm a line draws. A destination that never draws a route is stranded — extend a path to it.
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Mind the islands
A destination on a disconnected part of the network can only be reached from places on that same island. See "Make paths connect at junctions" if a route won't form.