Bob called in sick. There is no need to pick him up. yet the program DEMANDS that you go to his place anyway.
On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 11:42:43 AM UTC-5, Kevin Kenny wrote: > > Dumb question: Does OSMand make a distinction between waypoints > having the semantics of "this is my preferred route" and ones that > have the semantics of "this trip has multiple destinations?" If indeed > you have a trip where Alice wants to stop at point P to pick up Bob, > and then proceed to their joint destination at point Q, directing back to > Bob's place after passing by it is correct and desired behaviour. > > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Mike Frisch <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> It's (dead) simple math to determine if the direction of travel is toward >> or away from the next waypoint. Whatever waypoint is closest is the one the >> route should automatically direct to. A second, related setting would be >> "ensure route passes through all waypoints". If enabled, the route would >> always route to the missed waypoint. If disabled, routing is to the next >> closest waypoint. >> >> There is no technical reason why this feature couldn't be implemented. >> Tt's simply an issue of the author(s) not deeming the feature desirable. >> >> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:45 AM 'P Wat' via Osmand < >> [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> OsmAnd's determination to direct you back to a waypoint you missed, >>> either deliberately or accidentally, is indeed an irritation. Previous >>> contributors have noted that circumstances (eg traffic) do not always allow >>> the luxury of stopping to make corrections on-the-run. Being >>> constantly directed back to a missed waypoint renders the rest of the route >>> useless. >>> Paul Johnson and Jan Van Bekkum's suggestions are helpful. >>> IMHO it would be useful to be offered the option to "Re-route to the >>> missed waypoint", or "Delete the missed waypoint and continue to the next", >>> or "Skip the missed waypoint but keep it on screen to use later". >>> Paul W >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "Osmand" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/osmand/NzlJ5HNTfcM/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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.
