Re: GPS signal lost when locking screen (both 1.9.4 and 2.0)

Newer Android versions also often need the affected application to be excluded from power management optimization. ( E.g. Stamina exception for Sony devices ) This is frequently adviced for other GPS applications like LocusMap. Dne 16. listopadu 2017 3:28:43 odp. Aurélien Fuss

Re: Can't find a certain map to download

First, download the world map, about 200MB, within map management. Then browse to a region of interest and tap/hold on free place without map features. A menu pops up, with the name of region and various options for downloading maps or other related files( isolines and hillshading data)

Re: Speed as the basis for ETA in various travel modes

Note that OSMand works only with the file with exact name routing.xml. You may want to copy and overwrite routing.xml by prepared routingxxx.xml. But the app restart is needed. There is no good way to make ETA estimation for sailing, as neither future speed, neither to be passed distance are

Re: Speed as the basis for ETA in various travel modes

Hi Paul, The question may be, if it is worthy to expect ETA from OSMand. Perhaps just for a straight segment with about stable wind. B2/ It is a text file. You can copy/paste within the file or from outside. B3/ I Guess it can be, or you can just modify existing profiles like car=7kt,

Re: Speed as the basis for ETA in various travel modes

AFAIK, the routing.xml file is not explicitly listed among external OSMand files, but is hardcoded into the application. Application uses the hardcoded data, unless explicit file is provided by the user. It is also present in the application installation file APK, what is technically a ZIP

Re: Speed as the basis for ETA in various travel modes

Yes, what Max suggests seems like way to go.. -- Dne 9. května 2018 17:10:17 "'P Wat' via Osmand" napsal: Hi Poutnik As ever, you come up with good ideas, and sound methods. However, doing it that way it looks as if I'd have to sacrifice the normal car,

Re: Speed as the basis for ETA in various travel modes

Yes, I forgot there is probably the Gut release tag. -- Dne 9. května 2018 18:18:17 Max napsal: Hi! You can also download the latest one from GitHub project, but there may be version compatibility problem, so I do not recommend it. routing.xml

Re: Speed as the basis for ETA in various travel modes

At least I do so and it works. I used it to tweak heuristic routing coefficient. Respectively in the folder the user dedicated for OSMAnd data, if applies. -- Dne 9. května 2018 18:20:31 "'P Wat' via Osmand" napsal: Right. Hmm. On 7th May Harry VDW said "

Re: World Base Map?

IT is also useful when you are unsure what subcountry maps(FR,IT,DE,UK..) to download, especially if you are a foreigner. You locate in the we map e.g a part of a France, you make a tap-hold The region under finger gets coloured the name of the region appears The menu for region files to

Re: Traveling duration / travelling speed

each kind of road, and that's true for all modes, not only > for trucks! -- Poutnik ( The Wanderer ) My Brouter profiles https://github.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles/wiki -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe fr

Re: Traveling duration / travelling speed

ling > speeds for each kind of road, and that's true for all modes, not only > for trucks! -- Poutnik ( The Wanderer ) My Brouter profiles https://github.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles/wiki -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" grou

Re: Can maps be stored to SD- card?

I could use maps on SD card for OSMAnd, but I was a happy Android 4.3 user then. Dne 16. února 2018 9:27:01 Mika Paakkari napsal: Hello. Ööö for me it seems that this would not work. Allthough I could copy some files to SD card I can not set osmand to read

Re: Incorrect Altitudes

wrote: 2018-02-17 19:41 GMT+01:00 Poutnik <poutnik4n...@gmail.com>: While Europe subtracts altitude by the correction, US adds altitude, so the higher value is the (over?)corrected one. I didn't know that :) -- Poutnik ( The Wanderer ) My Brouter profiles https://github.com/poutnikl

Re: Incorrect Altitudes

Yes, it is like that. While barometric method beats GPS one in short term accuracy and precision, it is vice versa in long term. But for the most cases, users do not care about absolute altitude nor about the profile being tilted along timescale. What they are interested in is the geometry

Re: live tracking without internet?

Live tracking without internet connection is IMHO possible only as police-like phone tracking via cell tower location and tower signal strength . In rare tower region as rural Mongolia it may be very inaccurate. I am not sure about legal any technical availability of the solution.Also, I am

Re: Issues while following gpx track

There is a possibility to use BRouter, either as a local Android application, either its web frontend, which can generate the GPX file with voice hints for crossroad/junction turns. In LocusMap, these hints are possible even if Brouter app is used as the local 3rd party routing service.

Re: Routing with OsmAnd

If people makes mistakes and errors, why to expect simple algorithms applied to complex data do not ? -- Dne 7. srpna 2018 10:00:40 Martin Trautmann napsal: It's always risky to rely blindly on the routing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: How to change the language of the map?

What about these steps: "Sandwich" button (Settings) Maps source Map rendering menu section Map language Switch from Local names to e.g English. Checked for the world map and Arabic countries. It is possible that other than local or English names may not be available. One need to try.

Re: Speed assumptions

There is a catch the GitHub repository contains development version of routing.xml file, that may but may not be backward compatible with the file version for your OSMAnd application. The save way is to download the APK installation file of your osmand version, open it as ZIP file and extract

Re: Map style: differences between Osmand and Openstreetmaps Web

Probably something like the Voluntary UK custom theme in Locusmap, coming with 6 style variants and switchable features, that follows the Ordnance Survey. http://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=2915.0 -- Dne 12. srpna 2018 10:53:33 Jim Barton napsal: I'd just like to be able to have

Re: Map style: differences between Osmand and Openstreetmaps Web

-- Dne 12. srpna 2018 18:54:50 Jim Barton napsal: Thanks for the link. I've had a look and installed the locus app, and it's not for me. It seems to be a complete separate download of a customised version of OSM Maps. Of course it is, Why to expect it should not be ? OSMAnd uses

Re: Special rendering for sac_scale=hiking

As an alternative, or temporary workaround until implemented, you may want to try LocusMap with free OSM based (Google it) OpenAndroMaps(OAM) with OAM map theme Elevate/Elements. AFAIK, T1 us blue, T2/T3 red and T4-T6 black, with farther distinctions by the line patterns. Additionally, you

Re: Offline routing issues

Only if OSM data reflects real traffic signs incorrectly, or correctly, but in obsolete, deprecated way. Otherwise OSMAnd has to be changed. -- Dne 13. srpna 2018 18:43:47 Martin Scharm napsal: [...] However, the second issue in Warsaw remains an unnecessary U-Turn.. Does the OSM

Re: Speed assumptions

Or, one may track down the older file version from the GitHub file history, if the repository is tagged by the release version number. -- Dne 6. srpna 2018 17:52:43 Poutnik the Wanderer napsal: The save way is to download the APK installation file of your osmand version, open

Re: routing.xml

Rather compatible versions of routing.xml and osmand, the best if extracted from the APK file of used osmand. As combination latest release of Android and latest XML file from GitHub may cause crashes. -- Dne 26. srpna 2018 15:15:06 Martin Trautmann napsal: On 18-08-25 16:54, Bert

Re: Merging GPX Favourite files

If some manual work is for you less evil than using various tools, then you can manually copy the points between the files, as any GpX file is a plain text file That you can edit by any plain text editor like notepad.(Rather avoid using Word) If the data are not huge, it may be easier for

Re: OSMAND and the way to follow

AFAIK, following GPX in OSMAnd is detached from the vector maps and included data. There can be even Raster maps and/or the GPX route may be off-road. Consider using GPX generated by Brouter web or local Brouter, where visual/voice hints are at junctions/crossroads only, and only for non

Re: OSMAND and the way to follow

I see from the msg formatting you may use iPhone.In such a case, you can use only Brouter web for gox generation, as Brouter app is only for Android. -- Dne 22. srpna 2018 19:18:31 Marc Roujansky napsal: 930/5000 Hello I have just made a 900 km bicycle tour through the East of

Re: Difference between ridewithgps and osmand?

Have you considered OSMAnd/BRouter or LocusMap/BRouter ? Most bike routing solutions has no way to address personal biker preferences that differ a lot. Brouter is different. It means less extra points in manual route creation just to fix wrong guess of the router. Especially LocusMap is

Re: Will you consider uploading OsmAnd app to F-Droid officially?

F-Droid build is unofficial compilation of open sources with functionality of OSMAnd Plus and price of OSMAnd Free. Uploading there either of official builds do not make much sense. Dne 4. dubna 2018 22:22:05 Ricardo Stryki napsal: I know that the OsmAnd build

Re: voice and standby

IMHO, it does not make much sense to keep these notifications in advance based on fixed distance, as for low speed it would be funny. Rather to have them based on estimated remaining time, so the distance would be proportional to speed. E.g. it would be 1 min, 15s and 6 sec, what makes for

Re: voice and standby

I was not addressing this. This is matter of fixing OSMAnd. -- Dne 22. dubna 2018 13:19:57 B Stas napsal: Hello, maybe but I said that because on the highway it's all 500m we say "(" continue straight .. ")" and after 50km it becomes boring !!! Jean Le

Re: "Native library is not supported on this device." What best to do?

I remember rarely receiving the msg on my former phone Sony Xperia M Dual / A4.3. That did not make much sense. -- 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

Re: changing SIM card

Some years ago I have read China uses a specific intentional offset of hundreds meters in their maps to make non-Chinese GPS solutions unusable. Is(was) it true or false ? -- Dne 8. října 2018 7:34:10 "gwenda...@gmail.com" napsal: Hi, Let me say at the outset that I am

Re: Has google search relagated this forum?

Why not to use OSMAnd Google group ? It is more specific. Or, bookmark the direct link to the group. AFAIK, Google groups are not related to Google+. -- Dne 20. října 2018 3:11:30 A Thompson napsal: Every day or two I would check this forum by typing "osmand forum" (without the

Re: Has google search relagated this forum?

It is not like the old school maillists from 1990s with the control email messages. Rather the opposite. This is primarily a web based Google group / forum, that has (fortunately) optional email interface. Similarly as Microsoft support forums(once on Usenet) have the optional Usenet

Re: OSM and map tiles

In fact, it is not an OSMand trick, nor even an Android trick. Android is a high level platform built on the basement of Linux and the Linux filesystem. In the Linux(and probably Unix as well) world, a filename starting with the dot is the standard way to mark a hidden file or a folder.

Re: OSM and map tiles

Very good is also Android version of Total Commander. It allows listing hidden files and renaming files to .filename. I was used to ES FE, but abandoned it as many others, when it development went on the path I did not like. -- Dne 21. října 2018 17:08:11 Metaluc napsal: ... Most

Re: Back from Europe- now I have a problem!

Comparison to GM may be misleading, as it uses any location from location provider, while OSMAnd may insist on GPS location. GPS tester utility is better choice. Some of them like GPS status can explicitly (re) download aGPS data for faster fix. -- Dne 26. října 2018 6:40:12 Bart

Re: Back from Europe- now I have a problem!

OSMand does not determine GPS location. Android does. There may be hardware or OS problem. Also, not to confuse GPS location and location from Android location provider, that may use also mobile network, wifi and Bluetooth. Try GPS status or other GPS testing utility to test GPS. --

Re: Voice navigation question

In contrary of natively calculated routes, OSMAnd ( other apps usually too) takes GPX route as a simple point sequence. The is no difference to an off-road outdoor GPX route, just this time points happen to sit on roads. OSMAnd in gpx-route-following mode ignores road network data from the

Re: Springs are food?

Perhaps Food category includes drinks and water is a drink as well. At least, it makes sense to me. -- Dne 4. listopadu 2018 20:30:16 Jack Burke napsal: Does anyone know why springs (as in, water sources) are included when you search the category Food? Wondering if I should come a

Re: Unable to access osmandmapcreator.jar

Some archive managers like 7ZIP decide the file format not from the file extension, but from the file content. E.g. JAR or DOCX files are nothing else but ZIP files. If you renamed them to *.ZIP, you could open them by any archiver. -- Dne 3. října 2018 16:04:20 bdtx400 napsal: Ok

Re: Show minor roads when zoomed out

P.S., in my understanding the Elements theme draws (near?) any detail present in the map zoom level code, while the Elevate postpones it for higher zooms not to get display overcrowded (and CPU busy) by to many details. -- Dne 10. října 2018 10:27:43 Poutnik the Wanderer napsal

Re: OsmAnd and Brouter (bike offline routing): only first of four alternative Brouter routes is available

You can Generate all 4 routes directly in BRouter, using the same origin, destination (taken by Brouter from OSMAnd favourites)and profile, what would create files BrouterN.gpx , N=0-3. Than you can import the GoX file in OSMand. -- Dne 29. září 2018 22:47:30 Peter napsal: I have

Re: Purchased OsmAnd 1 year ago but license is gone

If you registered the new device to the same Google account as was the old one, Google repository should be aware about your licences. -- Dne 11. října 2018 8:41:55 adi.visore...@gmail.com napsal: Hello guys, More than a year ago I purchased a lifetime license for OsmAnd but when I

Re: Show minor roads when zoomed out

[...] I couldn't find the 'Elements' theme, but could find other map styles - I found the offroad one showed a nice level of detail. [...] On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:35:06AM +0200, Poutnik the Wanderer wrote: P.S., in my understanding the Elements theme draws (near?) any detail present in th

Re: OsmAnd and Brouter (bike offline routing): only first of four alternative Brouter routes is available

Not sure. Perhaps what if you calculate the same route several times ? Or, as a workaround, try BRouter nogo points. -- Dne 30. září 2018 11:18:58 Peter napsal: Thank you. There is no chance to have this alternatives in User-Interface in OsmAnd? -- You received this message

Re: Why are the versions on F-Droid and Google Play different?

AFAIK, OSMAnd+ is opensource, but payware to support the development, providing extra features. In my understanding, the licence allows to FDroid to take the code, remove the payment related part and recompile it as a free application. That causes the delay, plus they may not recompile every

Re: TMC data in OSM used by Osmand for routing?

Note for others that By TMC is very probably meant Traffic Message Channel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_message_channel?wprov=sfla1 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TMC Speaking just for myself: IMHO, OSMAnd is rather focused to be a versatile offline map/navigation/outdoor GPS

Re: Can Osmand totally replace a Garmin in a car?

You must mean OSMAnd+, not AndOSM+ .. :-) OSMAnd navigation is designed as offline navigation and cannot be in real-time aspects fairly compared to online navigations with realtime features, like Google maps or Waze. Even its 3rd party online routing services do not provide real time

Re: Land rendered as water - Please advise

Good verification step is also testing the area in an independent application, based on OSM as well. e.g. OSMAnd versus LocusMap, using MapsForge compatible OSM based maps, supposing both are using recent maps. -- Dne 17. prosince 2018 7:43:40 Martin Trautmann napsal: On 18-12-16

Re: Standard maps versus Roads-only maps

Standard maps contain all the map details, not needed for navigation, but useful for outdoor, city orientation or map exploration. Road-only are almost like it says: road only plus minimal set of not road related details. They contain all navigation information plus some non road data as

Re: Using OsmAnd on a Windows PC

Why not to try http://brouter.de/brouter-web/ ? using Brouter bicycle specific routing, using built-in or custom routing profiles? You can then download the route as GPX file with Brouter turn hints for OSMAnd. See also https://GitHub.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles/wiki -- Dne 29.

Re: Voice navigation question

Brouter does not announce every direction change by design, it tries to omit trivial ones. This can be modified in the profile. A quote from my unofficial Glossary GitHub page: "Priorityclassifier is a BRouter numerical parameter calculated for ways and used for generation of pictogram/voice

Re: fast routing experiment conclusion

The optimal heuristic coefficient as accuracy/speed tradeoff does not depend only on the start and destination. For the same start and destination, it depends on the used profile as well. As the route from each profile has different average road rating and due a different provided route also

Re: fast routing experiment conclusion

-- Dne 29. listopadu 2018 14:25:19 Harry van der Wolf napsal: Op do 29 nov. 2018 om 13:59 schreef Poutnik the Wanderer < poutnik4n...@gmail.com>: For the same start and destination, it depends on the used profile as well. Right. But you are now more or less speaking with B

Re: Voice navigation question

It does not make sense to use a single value. It should be evaluated per way segment basis within the profile script file. If fact, the more values the better. -- Dne 5. prosince 2018 16:38:25 "'Osmandtrier' via Osmand" napsal: I used Priorityclassifier with the value 10 and made

Re: fast routing experiment conclusion

The routing.xml is not guaranteed to be backward compatible. The frequent mistake is to download the current version from the master branch at GitHub. But this version may be ahead and may cause a crash even of the latest OSMAnd release. The save way is to download the respective OSMAnd

Re: fast routing experiment conclusion

Glad to help. More files are just renamed ZIP archives with specific content, Like Java files JAR or MS office files DOCX or XLSX. -- Dne 25. listopadu 2018 8:14:17 km146...@gmail.com napsal: I had no idea an apk was a zip archive. Sometimes I feel like I'm from a different century.

Re: Can Osmand totally replace a Garmin in a car?

Are eventual extra Garmin features never used ? Is the way OSMand works preferred to Garmin one ? If both answers are yes for you then the answer to your question for yourself can be yes. The answer depends on personal preferences. I guess the word totally is overused these days and its

Re: fast routing experiment conclusion

The heuristic coefficient is a priori rating of not yet evaluated part of the route. Routing algoritms based on A-star algorithm use cost rating for way segments, that multiply the segment length to give the "cost" of the passing the way segment. It is a measure of how much is disliked a

Re: fast routing experiment conclusion

By few words, the optimal routing and finding the optimal route are 2 very different things. -- Dne 28. listopadu 2018 17:28:15 Harry van der Wolf napsal: "And when travelling 700-1000 km, an extra theoretical(!) 1-2 minutes at the start or in the end (city to city via long

Re: fast routing experiment conclusion

-- Dne 28. listopadu 2018 19:51:46 Greg Troxel napsal: I meant where is it is encoded and where does it come from. On OSMand native routing, it is all stored in the routing.xml file, by default internally, unless a user explicitly place a file copy in the OSMand data

Re: fast routing experiment conclusion

-- Dne 28. listopadu 2018 20:47:04 Stefan Monnier napsal: Would it make sense to adjust this coefficient based on distance, then? I.e. when the "straight line to destination" is hundreds of km, use a value around 1.4/1.5, but only use 1.2/1.3 or so when the distance is down to a

Re: fast routing experiment conclusion

Ideals are meant in the contest of the used routing profile. It may be the motorway for fastest car route. Rating 1.4 would be for a road 1.4 times slower. It may be a road with nominal speed close to optimal fuel consumption.Rating 1.4 would be for a road with 1.4 times higher fuel

Re: routing on paths for bikes

Aside of built-in profiles, there is many custom user peofiles, with very different preferences from road bikes to very crazy MTB bikes. See e.g. https://GitHub.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles/wiki where there are many of mine plus references to others. -- Dne 14. září 2018 1:22:14 john

Re: routing on paths for bikes

OSMAnd bicycle routing is good, but only if it does what you want. For rest of cases, BRouter is better, as it is easier to tell it what you want, and to switch or tune your wishes. -- Dne 14. září 2018 6:07:56 Paul Johnson napsal: On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:33 PM Majka wrote:

Re: Does the paid version OsmAnd+ on Google Play have contours?

Garmin which has been resolved in a timely manner? I have never had such an experience with OSMAND! So, I am very grateful to the developers of OSMAND!!! Helmut Poutnik Wanderer schrieb am Sa., 26. Jan. 2019, 14:18: Is not it a little weird, if one realizes that OSMAnd is considered an all