Thanks for your input, Peer. I now have full synchronisation of my “Favourites” across all of the relevant Android devices :-) I was able to do this after installing “Apps2SD PRO” to my rooted devices and running the ’SDFix’ option.
Furthermore, I’ve also synchronised “favourites.gpx” to my desktop. While this provides a backup by way of the Mac’s “Time Machine”, I had also wanted to be able to edit the POIs on Google Earth. This would be much more convenient than doing it on a ‘droid. However, Google Earth’s .gpx import doesn’t (or at least “didn’t” in my case) appear to preserve the folder structure; the POIs are no longer separated into the OsmAnd-specified “Categories”. As a result, I’m currently unable to effectively edit the favourites file as desired. Does somebody know of a way to edit favourites.gpx externally while maintaining “Categories”? > On 18 Jan 2020, at 05:10, Peer <v7p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > see also https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/osmand/d48vagIHpLQ > I did have a similar but slightly question. > > With the app App2sd you can link the internal map with the map on the > sd-card. When you copy a file to the internal map and Apps2s lets you see it > in the external map also. I think your phone has to be rooted for this app. > I tried it briefly and it works on my pc. > > I use the ssh Server App form Banana Studio to copy files from my pc to my > phone. This app is able to copy to my sd-card directly. > > Op zaterdag 18 januari 2020 02:27:07 UTC+1 schreef J Albrecht: > Thanks for your “Syncthing” explanation, A Thompson (particularly the point > about the .stignore file!). If I can get this to work, it will be an ideal > solution for my wife and I to be able to share POI’s with each other. Alas, > it’s not working for me. > > Since I don’t have enough storage capacity on Internal Memory, I have no > choice but to store all of OSMAnd’s data on my devices’ external SD cards. > Unfortunately, Syncthing only has readonly access to this location. As a > result, changes can’t be synchronised. > > With the above in mind, can somebody perhaps suggest a viable workaround? > > In an ideal world, we’d be able to stipulate where the favourites file can be > saved to and accessed from. In my case, that would be anywhere on my devices > where I have readwrite capability. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> On 12 Jan 2020, at 20:19, A Thompson <thomp...@gmail.com <>> wrote: >> >> using Syncthing https://syncthing.net/ <https://syncthing.net/> (free, open >> source) successfully. >> >> If you use a file manager to open a .gpx POI file with OsmAnd, and choose to >> import as favourites then OsmAnd adds the contents intelligently to your >> existing favourites, preserving categories and avoiding duplicates. It seems >> that on startup it now imports favourites.gpx in the same way. Thus, by >> syncing favourites.gpx between devices you can sync additions to your >> favourites, but you still need to make any deletions manually on each device. >> >> Syncthing works between folders, but these can be in different locations. >> I've been syncing favourites.gpx between an Android 4.4 OsmAnd installation >> on a phone's SD card, and the built-in storage of an Android 9 tablet. To >> sync only favourites.gpx, not the whole folder, then Syncthing's ignore >> pattern for the folder should be: >> >> !favourites.gpx >> * >> >> (This resides in a text file called .stignore that you can create in an >> editor or during setup of the synced folders in Syncthing.) See "Ignoring >> files" in the Syncthing documentation. >> >> Other than choosing to start Syncthing automatically on device boot, I've >> been using all default settings. This means only syncing while on WiFi. If >> you add to favourites on multiple devices while they're unconnected, there >> will be a conflict that Syncthing handles. But if you do it while they're >> connected there's no problem: on the next full restart of OsmAnd each device >> will see all of the newly added favourites. > -- 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/28D994A1-CF28-49C0-A336-10FD63E2D664%40gmail.com.
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