Op di 10 mrt. 2020 om 16:30 schreef Bart Eisenberg <[email protected] >:
> Thanks Harry! > > I recently got an email from "Eugene zmeu" asking if he could add my > tutorials "to our articles in Features". I said yes, of course, but am not > sure how they'll be used. (I'm just happy they're of value.) > > On the Blog and Features page they also have the "Stories" sections. I do find a story there from "some" Bart: https://osmand.net/blog/story-19 Somewhere halfway is a link to your channel. That article I just discovered. To my American ear, the help pages are surprisingly clear. Where I notice a > gap, due to non-native writing, murky technical writing, or both, is in > parts of the blog, such as the OsmAnd 3.6 > <https://osmand.net/blog/osmand-3-6-released> post. I'm still trying to > figure out, for example, exactly how the improved version of straight-line > navigation works and where it might be useful. Airplane landings? > > I sometimes use it out of curiosity, like: it is 308 km in a straight line. Why do I have to drive 487km? But that is my only use for it. In mountainous areas it can be extreme when travelling by car from one valley to another parallel valley, or around a lake. Even a plane can't fly in straight line because they have to stick to their flight lanes bypassing/avoiding greater cities and military objects for example, and to separate the commercial flightlanes from the military flight lanes. Only a bird can fly in a straight line (if it is not too windy). > I'm interested, long term, in doing some videos beyond OsmAnd and would > appreciate your thoughts. I read on the forum that you like Magic Earth. > Would that be worthy, you think? Any other suggestions--products, trends > or technologies? I recently did one on Custom Maps > <http://www.custommapsapp.com/>, an open source Android app I've long > admired. And I think my undiscovered masterpiece is a video essay on OSM > becoming the world's trail map. ;-) > > Well, I can only say that I discovered that video essay relatively fast after you released that one :) W.r.t. Magic Earth: I really like it, but as it contains only a small subset of the OsmAnd functionality and "tweakability", the learning curve is also quite low. When comparing it to OsmAnd for car navigation, I prefer ME in 80% of the cases (or so), but that's mostly because of the free traffic info (which is not always 100% accurate) and the very clear screen with accurate voice instructions. Even though it's pedestrian and cycle modes are relatively good, I still prefer OsmAnd by far. It really is the Swiss knife of navigation apps giving you hundreds of sometimes confusing options/functionalities. Harry -- 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/CAGARPpvA5rX3j8%2BmdGTzE%3D4DfUWEpQ8k7t2_mKERNW-9XjEzJw%40mail.gmail.com.
