I followed the initial instructions in that old Post. Create a new folder in the tiles folder named to correspond to the map such as "VFR High'.
Copy the .metafile there. Rename the *.metafile to only be the file type .metafile with no filename. Once you do that, you can look longer see the file with most file browsers. It disappears from the file list, but it's still there for osmand to find and use. Many file managers, such as Windows file manager will not let you rename a file in this way. I use the ES File Explorer app available in the play store. EDITORIAL COMMENT: It's my opinion that requiring a "hidden" file with type only and no filename is a silly programmers trick by OsmAnd, for some purpose I fail to understand. Osmand should pick the alphabetical first metafile in the folder of any filename and ignore the rest. If you have done it correctly you should see a new online map available to osmand. You can select it as your underlay layer. It may take a while for tiles to load, and you may have to adjust zoom and scroll. You have to have an internet connection. If no tiles appear, then there is something wrong with the .metafile content, of the TMS map tile server is unavailable. Tiles in the wrong position indicates that the TMS tile server is not in your typical z,x,y format. Try z,y,x. There are some oddball formats that require a calculation that osmand can't handle. If I recall, Bing is one example. There are non-TMS tile servers such as WMS that osmand can't handle. Some tile servers take exceptional steps to prevent simple programs from using their tiles by obsficating the simple z,x,y style. They don't want you using their servers. 🐒 -- 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.
