I believe this is planned for OsmAnd 2.8. See: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/3908
Nick On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 19:24:52 UTC+1, patrick alberts wrote: > > I would like to use a GPX track as basis for navigation. That in itself is > not a problem with osmand. > > However, if you're preparing a long track, e.g. for a road trip, you'll > get something with thousands of points. In case you use GPSies to create > the track, the editor of GPSies reduces the track to, e.g., 3000 points. > That makes the track rather rough. > > The track is not a route, it's just a track along points. osmand offers to > navigate along the track and also to calculate the start to the first > point. It's also possible to start somewhere in the middle and continue on > the track. That's all good and great. > > However, between the points, osmand does no calculation but always uses a > straight line approach. That's very confusing in road navigation. And it > leads to a mess when osmand starts to believe you're off the track (as the > road doesn't necessarily follow the straight line) and then calculates a > route to the nearest point, which might be the last point behind you on the > road, asking you to go back. > > It would be much better if osmand had an option to calculate routing > between the individual track points. That only seems to be possible if the > track were a route. There are tools to do the conversion, but not inside > osmand. The problem then is, that osmand tries to pre-calculate the whole > route for all the thousands of points, which can take for ages (if it > finishes at all). > > Wouldn't it be possible to only calculate routing on-the-fly between the > track points as you pass the track? With some logic preventing osmand to > try to go backwards half of the time? All ingredients seem to be there... > > a otherwise happy paying user > > -- 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 osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
