I've updated the video to better show how a GPX waypoint is saved. Thank you! https://youtu.be/PvjS8VAYlns
On Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 3:39:39 PM UTC-7, Bart Eisenberg wrote: > > I agree on your first point--that "save" button is easy to miss; I'll add > it in on a final version. (YouTube videos can't be revised, only replaced.) > > > Re: marking the current location, I think the sequence would be: > <current position button>/menu/Use location/My Position/menu/Add GPX > waypoint/ edit & save > > But I think it's easier just to long press on the current position, the > blue dot, as shown on the map. That saves the first three steps. If the > result is not quite centered, just press again. > > On Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 2:54:46 PM UTC-7, Akkana Peck wrote: >> >> Bart Eisenberg writes: >> > >> > I've created a video tutorial on recording and using GPXs on the >> Android >> > version of OsmAnd. Feedback welcome. https://youtu.be/YlEnwgqnDIM. >> >> Nice video, with some things I didn't know, particularly some of the >> options in the My Tracks screen. >> >> One suggestion: when you make a waypoint, you don't mention that >> you MUST tap Save or the waypoint will be forgotten (even though you >> still have a balloon visible on the screen which you might think is >> the waypoint you just made). I've lost quite a few waypoints I >> thought I'd recorded on the trail due to that. >> >> Another thing worth mentioning is "Use current location". In your >> video you make a waypoint by long-pressing on the screen, but I >> more often want to save my current location, and doing that takes a >> lot of taps, uses two different menus and isn't that easy to discover: >> >> - Tap blue circle at bottom right >> (otherwise "current location" will be the center of OsmAnd's >> screen, not my current GPS location) >> - Lower left Menu button >> - "Use current location" >> - Lower right three-dot Menu button >> - Scroll down in menu to >> - "Add GPX waypoint" >> - Edit the waypoint name >> - Save >> - Back-arrow to get rid of of cruft at bottom of screen >> >> Or is there an easier way? >> >> ...Akkana >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
