How to follow a route

[editortom]

I gather I’m missing something obvious, but... When I try to follow a user-created route (including anything I’ve created using Google Maps), there’s no way to distinguish the route dots from other dots that just seem to indicate roads that are available to travel upon. Is there a way to color code the dots for a specific route, or to turn off dots that don’t apply to the route you’re trying to follow?