How to find out what is at a point on the map

Right-click the spot on the map in Route by Zaweba and choose What's here? from the menu. Route names that point for you, using the offline map region you have prepared, so it works just as well in a lay-by with no signal as at your desk.

It is a small command, but it answers a question that comes up all the time when you plan routes: what is this place I am looking at?

When it comes in handy

Plenty of planning starts with a place you can see rather than an address you know. A customer might say they are the farm past the bridge. A colleague might point at a junction on a printed sheet. You might spot a car park near a drop and want to know whether it has a name worth putting in the notes. In each case you can find the spot on the map and ask Route what it is.

It is also a useful check. If a stop has been placed by right-clicking, or from a partial postcode that covers an area rather than a door, What's here? on the pin's surroundings tells you whether you are in the street you expected.

Asking about a spot

Make sure the right map region is loaded, since Route can only describe places inside it. Pan and zoom to the area. Zooming in well before you right-click gives a more precise answer, because the point you click is the point that gets named. Right-click exactly where you want to know about and choose What's here?

If the answer is close but not quite what you hoped, right-click a little nearer the road or building you mean and try again.

Going from a point to a stop

The same right-click is one of the ways to build a round. Right-clicking the map lets you add a stop there, alongside adding stops by search, by importing a CSV file or by importing a GPX file. A common pattern is to ask What's here? first, make sure the place is right, then add it as a stop.

Once a stop exists, double-click it to open its dialog. That shows its name, address, notes, time at stop, time window and its position as latitude and longitude. You can tidy the name there so your route sheet reads clearly.

The other direction: finding a place by name

What's here? turns a point into a name. The search box does the reverse, turning words into a place. It searches as you type for towns, streets, house-number addresses, named places, full or partial UK postcodes and latitude, longitude pairs. If someone sends you coordinates from a phone, paste them into search and Route takes you there. If someone names a pub in a village, search for it.

UK postcodes come from OS Code-Point Open and cover Great Britain only, because Northern Ireland postcodes are not open data. Places, streets and addresses in Northern Ireland can still be found where OpenStreetMap has them.

How much detail to expect

The answer is only as detailed as the map data. In towns and cities OpenStreetMap is usually rich, with house numbers and named buildings. Out in the country you may get a road name rather than a house. That is not the app being vague; it is telling you what the map knows.

Use the light or dark map style, from View, whichever is easier on your eyes, since being able to read labels clearly makes it easier to click the right spot.

Between the search box and What's here?, Route by Zaweba lets you move between names and places in both directions, entirely offline.