Control Points (CPs)

CPs (control points) are the points where the MiRally timing system records the competitors' passing time. In the Roadbook Designer, a CP is a roadbook line with GPS coordinates but no tulip. CPs do not appear in the competitors' roadbook: the conversion exports them in the CPs Excel file, which is loaded into MiRally.

Regularity CP: normal regularity control.
Pass CP: passage control. It is used, for example, to record the start time at Monte-Carlo starts.
CH: time control.
Radar Point: speed control zone.

Normal tap on the add CP button (or the Rabbit Box remote's -10 button): adds a Regularity CP at the current position. While the Designer waits for the GPS position a yellow message appears; when the CP has been recorded a green message appears.
Holding the button for 1 second opens the CPs menu:

Add CPs Automatically: turns the automatic CPs on or off. When they are on, the button turns red.
Add Pass CP, Add CH or Add Radar Point: adds a CP of that type at the current position.
Show/Hide CPs: hides the CP lines on the screen so you can see the references better.
Delete All CPs: deletes all the CPs of the roadbook.

With automatic CPs turned on, the Designer only adds CPs while you are in a speed (S) stage:

A Pass CP 100 metres from the start of the stage, to record the competitor's start time.
Then a Regularity CP roughly every 350 metres, from kilometre 0.500 onwards. The distance varies a little at random (up to 15 %) so that the competitors cannot guess where the CPs are.

These distances are changed in Setup → Auto PCs Distances.

Holding the arrow (⬅) of a line for 1 second opens its menu. In Convert to Reference or CP you can:

Convert to Reference: turns a CP into a normal reference.
Convert to Regularity CP, Convert to Pass CP, Convert to CH or Convert to Radar Point: turns a reference into a CP. Its tulip and its information are deleted.

The reference that starts a stage cannot be converted into a CP.

Hold the distance of the CP for 1 second to type a new distance. The Designer recalculates the references and the stages.