First point: Wow, Trip through Japan and now Ladakh. I wish I could join ... ;-)
Second: From my point of view, there are 2 different navigation styles. 1) you plan a trip with exact way to drive: you use a Track. 2) you plan a trip with several waypoints you want to reach, the streets to drive has lower priority: you use a Route Personally I prefer to use Routes, because it is much easier to add additional or remove obsolete waypoints.Thinking about a paper chase, you may have 1, 2, 3 points and with each reached you add a new one into. Or maybe you have 20 points planned, and due to various circumstances you have to rearrange the order of the points. With Routes that's just a matter of seconds, as each point is a separate item in the navigation list. Therefore, both Tracks and Routes has their usages. The only thing is, that Track GPX are very good supported in Osmand while Route GPX are not. LadakhRider schrieb am Dienstag, 23. Juli 2024 um 12:13:05 UTC+2: > " So GPS track files in my opinion are only suitable for off road usage > and not for serious road tours (200-400 kilometers). Another problem with > navigation GPS track files is the lack of what road you are on and the > name of the road to turn onto. " > I did 800~900km trip through Japan in May by motorcycle, starting in Osaka > and traversing lots of dense farming country, and I found it worked fine on > the whole, just the occasional bend thing I mentioned above. As for road > names, well in Japan there basically aren't any! :) A few streets in > Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo and Sapporo have names, but the other 99.99% don't, so > I never noticed the naming deficiency in Osmand. A week today I'll be off > to Ladakh in the Himalayas, so it will be interesting tosee how it performs > there. At least they have road names there. > > > On Tuesday 23 July 2024 at 5:51:50 pm UTC+9:30 [email protected] wrote: > >> >> Thank you for the suggestion. >> >> In the past the 'Attach to Roads' function has been unusable because it >> was simply to slow. This may now be fixed with the current release of >> OsmAnd. However it still does not fix the micro turn instructions that >> happen way to often in my testing, of which I find annoying. Another >> complaint I have with using a GPX track file is when the track point falls >> on an overpass routing will navigate you off the Autobahn and back onto the >> Autobahn. So GPS track files in my opinion are only suitable for off road >> usage and not for serious road tours (200-400 kilometers). Another problem >> with navigating GPS track files is the lack of what road you are on and the >> name of the road to turn onto. >> >> I am currently using Kurviger for route planning and exporting via GPX >> Route file and then importing the waypoints to create a proper navigation >> route. This combo works very well. I have entered several routes and can >> now say Kurviger is as good as Google Maps for finding cities and POIs. It >> still struggles a little with street addresses. If I have a street address >> it cannot find then I would look for it with Google Maps, note the GPS >> location and then drop a waypoint on that spot in Kurviger. >> >> This is my current solution. >> >> >> At any moment, you have a choice, that leads you closer to God or further >> from God. >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:51 AM LadakhRider <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Would not a GPX track do what you are after? >>> I create all my tracks at Plotaroute.com, import them into Osmand, and >>> if I want it to navigate with turn-by-turn and have audio instructions, >>> then I select attach to map. This then tells Osmand that the long string >>> of co-ordinates that constitute a GPX track, which it would otherwise >>> interpret as nothing much more than a straight-ish line, that it now passes >>> through road junctions, such as a standard 4 way junction, or a T-junction, >>> which effectively chops up that string into smaller road segments, each >>> going from junction to junction, and then telling you to turn left in 200 >>> metres etc. >>> I have done this a lot and it generally works fine. It does however >>> interpret some road bends as a junction, and so you get instructions to >>> turn left in 200 metres, get there and find no junction, just a bend. But >>> only some times. >>> So when I export the GPX out of Plotaroute.com, I select it to be a >>> track, not a route, and with no directions or waypoints. Easy! >>> >>> On Thursday 30 May 2024 at 12:04:18 am UTC+9:30 [email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> So i'm new to this app and trying to figure it out. I've tried >>>> importing a gpx. The ottawa ride for dad route. >>>> >>>> It appears the waypoints or poker stops are not in file and the route >>>> does not follow exactly the roads intended. >>>> >>>> Not sure what i'm doing wrong. Do i have to add the waypoints/poker >>>> stops as intermediate and if so, how. How do i make sure the route is >>>> exactly as intended? Do i attach roads? If so at 5m (the smallest). 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