While you're navigating with a GPX, press the the gear icon (Options) in the directions menu and look at the setting: "Pass along entire track". It should be disabled.
On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 4:21:41 PM UTC-7, David Remelts wrote: > > I am quite certain that it was a GPX route. My normal method is to use > OsmAnd on my tablet to create the route and when I am satisfied with it I > will save it as GPX and transfer it to the Android head unit in my truck > which is running the same version of OsmAnd. Then I will load that GPX > file and start the navigation. > > But, I think you are on to something. I did have occasion to generate a > route directly on the Android head unit in the truck and ran into an > unexpected detour on the route. OsmAnd did inform me that I had been off > the route for two tenths of a mile (or whatever) but it never tried to make > me go back and hit the points I had missed. > > So, obviously, the next questions is: why do they behave differently? > > > > On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 4:03:27 PM UTC-4, Bart Eisenberg wrote: >> >> Are you following a GPX route? Or just a route calculated by OsmAnd? >> >> On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 12:37:17 PM UTC-7, David Remelts wrote: >>> >>> >>> Say I am following a north-bound route on the expressway and I stop at a >>> rest area and then exit the rest area to continue along the route. >>> Obviously, I am rejoining the original route at a point further north than >>> where I left it when I entered the rest area. OsmAnd+ seems to realize >>> that I have missed some points along the route and thinks I really need to >>> go through those missed points. So, it will recalculate the route and tell >>> me to get off at the next exit and re-enter the expressway going south >>> until I have passed the rest area and come to the next exit where I am to >>> get off and re-enter the expressway going north again and continue through >>> the missed points on the route. If I ignore the instructions (which, of >>> course, I do) it will recalculate the route again and pick the next exit >>> for me so I can re-enter the south-bound expressway. Eventually, it will >>> give up and just continue along the original route without trying to >>> backtrack. >>> >>> Has anyone else experienced this and is there a way to eliminate this >>> behavior? >>> >> -- 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/b1b9ffe5-2746-4aa3-abb4-36ccd7013b59%40googlegroups.com.
