I'm glad it works for you. What is the QGIS method?
On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 5:23:26 PM UTC-7, Akkana Peck wrote: > > Luke writes: > > One feature that I had been missing from Osmand for a long time - and > > others in the US I'm sure would agree - is the ability to display the > land > > use areas and what areas are national forest/BLM/etc. > > I finally found a way to get it to download and show the public domain > BLM > > maps! The steps are documented here: > > > https://howtotrainyourrobot.com/adding-blm-land-use-maps-to-osmand-on-android/ > > > > > This is handy but I noticed that lakes seem to not show when BLM map is > the > > underlay. Perhaps a conflict, or a bug? > > Bart Eisenberg writes: > > In the Underlay menu, is Show polygons on? > > I just tried Luke's excellent tutorial. Thank you, Luke! It works > beautifully, and is a lot easier and more general than the QGIS method > I posted a few weeks ago. > > And I tried Bart's tip for reservoirs, which worked (thanks to you > too!) but only after some fiddling. By default, the underlay map has > Base Map Transparency of 100%, and if I turn on Show Polygons, I see > the base (offline vector) map, including reservoirs, but the BLM > land use map disappears. But if I set Base Map Transparency to 50% > *and* turn on Show Polygons, I can see both reservoir and land use. > I can also see both if I use it as an Overlay (which I guess always > shows polygons? It doesn't have an option for that) rather than an > Underlay map -- though the first time I tried it as an Overlay it > didn't show and I'm not sure why. > > Are there any arguments in favor of underlay vs. overlay, or are > they pretty much equivalent? > > I don't suppose there's an option to download map tiles only when > on wi-fi? I couldn't find anything like that in the Online Maps > Settings, though there is a checkbox where I could temporarily turn > off updates. > > ...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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/bcfc87ff-0558-4447-bc41-3831f2412369%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
