GPX parsing broken

2019-08-11 Thread Thomas Köller
Osmand groups waypoints in XML files by their tags. The GPX schema allows for inclusion of a element in the waypoint type, which in turn can have a element, see here . Whenever a GPX file containing such a element is imported into osmand, th

OSMAND routing produced weird result

2017-12-23 Thread Thomas Köller
The attached GPX file holds the result of OSMAND computing a route between two points in car navigation mode (Osmand 2.8.2). This result is obviously wrong, instead of doing a U-turn followed by a left turn, I can simply do a right turn, there is nothing there to prevent that. Doing the same c

Suboptimum routing /w example

2017-07-30 Thread Thomas Köller
When using Osmand for car navigation, the routing decisions are sometimes suboptimum, or just plain silly, as in the attached example. I came across this during my vacation in Scandinavia. As can be seen, both start and end point are on the same major road, the E14. The route computed by Osmand

GPS signal frequently lost/regained

2016-07-03 Thread Thomas Köller
When I am using Osmand for car navigation, it frequently (though not always) happens that it tells me that it lost the GPS signal. In most cases, it reports the GPS signal being regained after a couple of seconds. This is repeated at irregular intervals. It is a bit annoying if you are just app