Hi David: I haven't tested this much, but here on the board, people have suggested transferring just the markers (as you contemplate doing) as a GPX file, then on the Options menu after you begin navigation, enabling "Calculate route between points". That should generate a route that either follows, or at least approximates, the one you had in mind. I would think that this generated route would be reversible.
>From the discussions here, I think this method is still experimental. If you try it, please post your results. On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 5:42:48 PM UTC-7, David Remelts wrote: > > 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/67d96aea-7f00-4a1f-93dc-a835dd0544fc%40googlegroups.com.
