In any case, navigating with a GPX is usually different than navigating with a generated route because the former doesn't take the underlying map into account.
On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 5:12:22 PM UTC-7, Bart Eisenberg wrote: > > 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/33abb312-7b45-4ecb-a61e-5ee64d5fe7f6%40googlegroups.com.
