Wow, that sounds dumb but also really easily correctable. I'll try it next time.
On Monday, May 4, 2020 at 10:52:22 AM UTC+2, Harry van der Wolf wrote: > > Sorry, I am incorrect. > > 1) DOES function. If I "stupidly" click the grey "Start" button it gives > an error that it doesn't have a location, but when I then activate location > on my phone and simply wait, it does the calculation and starts navigation. > So the button is grey as if inactivated, but it does work. This is > terrible from application design point of view. > > 2) is still a good feature request. > > Op ma 4 mei 2020 om 10:34 schreef Harry van der Wolf <[email protected] > <javascript:>>: > >> That TTS has absolutely nothing to do with it. If you do not have TTS or >> recorded voice configured, then it will ask that indeed, but that is not >> what the op meant. >> >> The op is completely right that: >> 1) doesn't function if you do not have a GPS location, You can't start >> the navigation. In other applications you just start and wait for the >> program to get its location and then do the route calculation. >> 2) is confusing detail. As a driver I can't estimate whether it is 227 >> or 223 meters, and I don't care either. Secondly: Due to inaccuracies in >> both GPS/Glonass and street mapping, this 227 meters might be right on the >> map, but might be 235 meters in practice. >> >> @Matija: Please create 2 issues for this: >> https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/ >> This is a "user helps user" mailgroup. The devs look at the issues. >> >> Harry >> >> >> Op ma 4 mei 2020 om 10:20 schreef Eugene zmeu <[email protected] >> <javascript:>>: >> >>> 2. https://osmand.net/features/start#Voice_prompts >>> try to change TTS to recording voice (Voice guidance menu) >>> >>> On Monday, May 4, 2020 at 10:58:58 AM UTC+3, Matija Pa wrote: >>>> >>>> Lately in OsmAnd+ I've been having these two issues while navigating >>>> (driving): >>>> >>>> 1. I tap on my destination and want to just immediately tap on *Start >>>> navigating* button (or whatever it's labeled in English). But I can't >>>> do this - the button is disabled - until my phone has found my location? >>>> This wasn't the case in some previous versions of the app. And finding my >>>> location can sometimes take up to a minute or more. This is dumb because >>>> I'm driving and I need to focus on the road. >>>> Now, I keep my phone location off until I need it, to preserve battery. >>>> So I turn it on, and then fire up my OsmAnd+. >>>> I want to be able to *just tell OsmAnd+ to start navigating and then >>>> wait for it to do its location/navigation calculation in its own time*. >>>> It's annoying to have to wait just to tap on the button that I'll have to >>>> tap anyway. >>>> >>>> 2. Voice navigation tells me, e.g. "In two... hundred... twenty... >>>> seven... meters... turn left." If I'm driving in a city this is dumb >>>> because, by the time I listen to what I should do at the next >>>> intersection, >>>> I'm already through said intersection! If I'm at 50 km/h and have 200 >>>> meters to go, in those precious ~5 seconds of speech I will pass 70 meters >>>> and then panic because I've learned I'm in the wrong lane or smth. >>>> It would be so much better to simplify this and *instead of saying "in >>>> 227 meters" just say "in 200 meters"*. Because the other 27 meters >>>> don't matter to me as a human driver. >>>> >>> -- >>> 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] <javascript:>. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/a79c98c3-fe09-4822-881f-cefc6b0ff743%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/a79c98c3-fe09-4822-881f-cefc6b0ff743%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- 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/80f99b2f-c1e5-4c89-8843-9b7b12352891%40googlegroups.com.
