Bart, thanks for the tip about the "Pass along entire track" setting - I will test that the next chance I get. I confess that there is so much about this app that I don't know yet but the more I do find out about it the more impressed I am with it. I am beginning to learn that when it doesn't do what I expect not to blame the app but my own ignorance ;-)
But your comment about the difference between GPX and generated routes makes me start to question my normal method of using the app. I still want to use my tablet to design the route because it is so much more convenient and comfortable to be sitting in the fifth-wheel planning the next day's leg of the journey than it is to sit in the cab of the truck to do it. So, maybe rather than saving the route as a GPX I should just save the markers that were used to generate the route on the tablet, transfer them to the truck and regenerate the route. And, speaking of differences between GPX and generated routes: I have discovered that if I want to reverse the route the GPX route will recalculate the route based solely on the end points, ignoring any waypoints that were used to create the original GPX route. Whereas a generated route will retain the intermediate points, although they will have to be manually reordered. So, all in all, it seems that there are many compelling reasons to use generated routes whenever possible. Thanks again. On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 8:15:55 PM UTC-4, Bart Eisenberg wrote: > > 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/4c91186a-3e8c-4c3c-9ede-5f7a443fba76%40googlegroups.com.
