Hi Max,

Thanks for the advise, I've been trying CamSam and that seems to be a good 
solution. I'll give up trying to get the speed cameras to alert in Osmand 
and use CamSam. Thanks again.

Cheers

Jon


On Friday, September 23, 2022 at 10:51:28 AM UTC+1 Max1234Ita wrote:

> Hi Jon,
> OsmAnd has very basic map editing capabilities: you can just add some POI 
> you may encounter along the way (i.e. a restaurant), it has no capability 
> at all for what concerns editing existing objects or creating new, complex 
> ones, as a relation is. So, unfortunately, you need to use a real OSM 
> editor to manage that.
>
> One thing you can try is to make it announcing POIs along the calculated 
> route, you can set this in Configure Profile -> Navigation settings -> 
> Voice prompts.
> The Problem is that this way every POI you're approaching will be 
> announced, restaurants, cafes, shops, drinking water fountains, etc.; it 
> can become quite messy when driving across an urban area.
>
> If you want a specific announcement for cameras only, I would recommend to 
> use CamSam: it can run in parallel with OsmAnd and you can also have a 
> small widget superimposed to the OsmAnd navigation screen (paid version 
> only).
> CamSam is free for fixed cameras, while the paid version will also report 
> mobiles (BTW, make sure it's legal in your Country to have such 
> announcements).
>
> Kind regards,
> Max
>
>
>
> Il giorno gio 22 set 2022 alle ore 20:39 Jon Doe <[email protected]> ha 
> scritto:
>
>> Hi Massimo,
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this.
>> As it looks like most of the speed cameras have not been added to the map 
>> correctly & it not really practical for me to search and change every 
>> single one in the country, is it possible for Osmand to give an alert when 
>> approaching a speed camera POI which is located close to the road I'm 
>> travelling on, no matter what, if any, "relation" has been added to OSM?
>> For example, when you are 400m from a speed camera PIO, it checks the 
>> location of the PIO and if it is within three meters of the road you are 
>> on, trigger an alert?
>> Or if that's not possible, just trigger an alert whenever a speed camera 
>> POI is nearby, even if not on your road. I would rather get a few false 
>> warnings rather than non.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>

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