Here's an annotated list of my videos: https://sites.google.com/view/bartetutorials . But yeah, nothing there about custom styles. On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 2:11:04 AM UTC-8 hvd...@gmail.com wrote:
> Unfortunately there is no up-to-date documentation. Over the years the > rendering became more complex and the documentation was hardly ever updated. > > You are now only talking about the rendering, but also the way the maps > are built can reduce or enhance the rendering options. > The most up-to-date information (and I specifically do not say > documentation) can be retrieved from the github repository: > https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-resources > Check the renderiing_styles and obf_creation (less important but in case > you do decide to create your own maps). > > From a usage perspective, which is not rendering as such, but might be > helpful as well in some little tweaking, you can take a look Bart > Eisenbergs's youtube videos about hiking. They are really very informative. > See https://www.youtube.com/user/barteisenberg. > Also there: the latest ones represent current OsmAnd options best. > > Also: From the map menu when selecting "Configure map" (the two "layers" > tiles on top of each other), you can add extra overlay or underlay maps. > There are a lot of (downloadable) overlay/underlay maps available (no, not > OpenAndroMaps Elevate. I just checked). > Maybe one of those might suit your needs. > > Harry > > > > Op za 2 jan. 2021 om 17:58 schreef Waldemar Isbrecht < > waldemar...@gmail.com>: > >> I was a long time Locus Map and OpenAndroMaps user and I really like the >> OpenAndroMaps Elevate themes. >> I've been using OsmAnd on and off for some time now and while there is no >> OsmAnd render theme that comes even close to the OpenAndroMaps Elevate >> theme I always settled for the Touring theme in OsmAnd. >> >> Some things I don't like about the Touring view for hiking (Alpine hiking >> scale SAC active): >> - colors for trail difficulty are way different from what I'm used to. >> - trail_visibility is being ignored in Touring view although the default >> renderer actually processes it. >> >> So I went down the rabbit hole to modify the >> "Touring-view_(more-contrast-and-details).render.xml" theme with custom >> additions. >> >> Alas, I didn't find a good and up to date documentation of the render >> theme syntax. >> The only place I found some help is: >> https://osmand.net/help/docs/Custom_Rendering_How-To.htm >> As far as I know the described syntax in that article is outdated. >> There's no useful documentation as to how render files are processed. >> The first thing I had to find out is how dependency is working. >> "Touring-view_(more-contrast-and-details).render.xml" is dependent on >> "default.render.xml". >> The Next thing was that both files use different syntax. Some of this is >> described in the "default.render.xml". >> Then I needed to grasp where to add my modifications - I still don't get >> how to add trail_visibility in touring view. >> Then there are all the different attributes. Most of them not documented. >> Just try to work out what "pathEffect_5" means? Or pathEffect_0 through >> pathEffect_5 for that matter. >> >> Sure, with days of spare time I could reverse engineer most of what I >> need by searching in the source code - and sometimes even this is not >> enough. >> >> Is there some place with detailed and up to date documentation for the >> rendering theme files. If not, should I open an issue at the GitHub repo? >> I think with better documentation more users could actually contribute to >> OsmAnd rather than constantly asking for help and changes for some render >> theme in the GitHub issues. >> Proper documentation would empower more users to do the desired changes >> themselves. I know I would benefit from better documentation and maybe even >> contribute my changes to OsmAnd. >> >> -- >> 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 osmand+un...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/45310035-41c2-441e-bb63-c9f2241bc11an%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/45310035-41c2-441e-bb63-c9f2241bc11an%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 osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/af624b7c-a0f8-4320-8fb4-c1784095927en%40googlegroups.com.
