>> My "other" category says 8.45 GB and I have no idea what kind of data this
>> could be and how I can manage (e.g. delete) it. I have maps worth around
>> 1GB on my device, a few tracks and favorites, that's it.
IIUC the number of GB displayed is the amount of free space available in
(the
> Here's where I've got up to.
I'm interested but couldn't understand your description:
> I have asked osmand to create an accessible folder within the 'download'
> folder (following the approach taken by Vespucci) on my internal storage.
Where's "the 'download' folder"?
By internal storage do
> @Stefan: The version you get from F-Droid is not the OSMand+Live version,
> it is the free OSMand~ version. This is not the same.
I wouldn't know (nor care too much). I'm pretty happy with it (tho
I wish it could magically be less resource-intensive ;-)
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> Since version 3.9.3 users of the paid google version of OSMand can't use
> it, when they havn't installed the spy services of google. And now the
> users of Android 5.x will be fired. The developers of OSMand have got our
> money and now we can go.
I'm not sure how the version of Osmand in
>> Audio notes would be useful in such settings. I'm imagining a system
>> where you press a button and it will record incoming audio from the
>> microphone for the next 5s, then stored as a geolocated note.
> osmand can do this, but it requires dealing with a touchscreen. I am
> guessing you
> If I am driving, not a passenger, all I do is turn on tracing in OSMAND,
> then using it as a guide (my track), I just try to remember what I saw and
> update the map from memory. Very poor approach but better than nothing.
Audio notes would be useful in such settings. I'm imagining a system
> Having written the above, I'm coming to the position that private roads
> which people who have permission (ish) to go someplace may use should be
> tagged access=destination, and roads only very special people may use
> should be =private, and osmand should dafault to allowing a terminal
>
> With power usage, do you believe that
>
> osmand running gps receiver, displaying where you are and navigating
> along an already calculated route
>
> takes significantly more power than
>
> osmand running gps receiver and displaying where you are
I don't know. Putting my software
> I realize this is preference, but as someone who knows how to read maps,
> I very strongly dislike 3D view. I want to see a plan view, with angles
> preserved and scale preserved. I know that it does not match visually
> what I see out the window, but I am able to know relative distances in
>
> Advantage of contraction hierarchy comes rather for long distances, but it
> may be disadvantage in rural areas, as their road network is a subset of
> OSMAnd/BRouter.
I guess in theory it should be possible to construct auxiliary data from
osm data, just like online routers do, and then make
> The big problem (as I see it) is that OsmAnd can't calculate long routes.
> The answer is: "You have to add waypoints", and that is also what OsmAnd
> suggests.
Reminds me that I wonder if OsmAnd (or other routers) use some form of
"planning": rather than do a recursive search from start to
> so what can a non-professional user of osmand do except for switching to
> another app, as this one has become obsolete? or: how to get an old version?
I don't know where you're looking, but in F-Droid you can select old
versions (not arbitrarily old, but they do keep some versions around).
> The main reason for buying a new phone is: More and more apps are now
> longer supported by android 4.3.
That's why I strongly recommend you go with a device that's supported by
LineageOS: they keep providing new releases *much* longer than the
original manufacturer.
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> I have an old nexus5 (which was way cool in 2013), and osmand runs ok on
> that, but I haven't tried to navigate with it lately.
I use a Samsung S5, which dates back to the same era (and both come
with 2GB of RAM) and Osmand runs fine in it, including navigation.
[ Funnily enough gsmarena.com
> The algorithm takes the sum of segment costs of already evaluated route.
> Then, it adds the length of the straight line to destination multiplied by
> heuristic coefficient.
Thanks.
> This risk decreases with the route length.
Would it make sense to adjust this coefficient based on distance,
> I also use a heuristicCoefficient="1.4" since several years following the
> example of Harry van der Wolf, which makes the calculation of routing much
> faster. I like it!
BTW, what does this magic button do?
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> I'm trying add online google maps to Osmand by instructions on this
> link http://dailyway.ru/zagruzka-rastrovyx-kart-v-osmand/
Makes me wonder: why would someone make extra efforts to tell Google
even more about their whereabouts and (geographical) interests?
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> But if the destination is very far and I don't know where it is/I'm in
> hurry/I'm too lazy to scroll the map around :), what happens you can see in
> the attached picture: it shows all matches found in a range of about 15 Km
> from current position, while Rome (city) is located as far as about
> True, but as the OP stated: "Being quite tech challenged" and LineageOS
> involving rooting, custom roms and such, I doubt that's a realistic option.
You don't have to do it yourself nor to do it right away.
IOW, it can be taken as a form of "insurance".
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> It requires Android v4.x at a minimum if I'm not mistaken, but you should
> probably aim for an Android v5, 6, 7 or even 8.0 device because anything <
> v5 is considered ancient and insecure.
Better yet: aim for a phone supported by LineageOS, so that you won't be
stuck at "whichever Android
> Osmand is now at least in Europe disqualified as a car navigation since id
> doesn't have any information about traffic and other navigations (such as
> Google, HERE or Waze) can guide you much better. Still Osmand is great for
> bike or hiking. But not usable for cars because the very slow
> Try moving half a screen with your digit and moment later move back.
> Displayed back areas are rendered from null.
Yes, there's a lost optimization opportunity here, indeed.
> It would make sense with constantly updated on-line maps but with
> offline data?
Note that labels (like street
Hi,
I'm wondering if there's a way to tell Osmand to write highway numbers
and road names *on top of* the navigation route rather than have the
navigation route hide them.
I really like using Osmand, yet I tend to prefer to follow the road
signs, so very often I work this way:
I use Osmand to
> True, but I mentioned it earlier on an OSM mailing list & one of the others
> said he'd tried searching it via Bing & Bing Maps & no results at all?
That just indicates that Bing doesn't (yet?) support this kind of
location representation. That representation was designed by Google but
it's
> I like OsmAnd a lot. But during the time I use it I had to change 3 or 4
> mobile phones. Each time when I install OsmAnd on a new phone I have to
> adjust settings to meet my needs. Also I loose my favorites, gpx,
> audio/video notes. Is there a way to sync all these without copying files
>
> Maybe OSM could get the concept of virtual paths, like dirt tracks
> that become "beaten" as more people use them. When a routing agent
> then wants to route people between A and B and it encounters "beaten
> tracks" between these areas applicable to the current profile, it
> might funnel
If I have two .obf files for the same region, how can I know which one
is more up-to-date (ideally under a GNU/Linux system, but I guess if it
has to be done under Android that's OK as well).
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