I'm missing something here. OSMand can load up a map from a file.
Where does the network come in?
Do you wish to share a map or copy it to another device?
Thanks John
On 17 Jan 2018 5:06 pm, "Michael Doran" wrote:
> Has anyone successfully integrated Osmand with a mobile mesh networking
> te
Apart from asking me to pay 29 or 39 euros it didn't seem to be very user
friendly.
When selecting a start point it seemed to assume my location was some 450
kilometres from the actual location.
Eventually it accepted a street address but as suggested places to go where
all 450 kilometres away.
Yes but it is a smaller screen.
Cheerio John
On 12 February 2018 at 19:21, Tom Norton wrote:
> Being quite tech challenged I have a question. We will be cycle touring in
> Europe this year and I will be buying an unlocked cell phone. Can Osmand be
> used on an Android phone? Are there certain s
A suggestion only buy at least a 16 gig micro SD card to go in it
especially if you're thinking of putting on a few mp3s.
Cheerio John
On 13 February 2018 at 19:30, Tom Norton wrote:
> Ni,
> Here is the phone I am looking at.
> http://bluproducts.com/devices/vivo-xl-2/
> Is Android 6.0 Marshmal
I also noted this sometime ago. I suspect we should enter it on github
somewhere as could it be corrected please.
Cheerio John
On 14 February 2018 at 13:17, Angela Morley wrote:
> I've noticed that OsmAnd has this habit of displaying the closest
> geographic street to a POI rather than the act
Where are your families? If they are some distance from you you will need
some sort of connection.
Cheerio John
On 23 February 2018 at 13:10, Stojan Gajic wrote:
> Sorry guys,
> maybe it's a stupid question but for me it's still not clear if our
> families can follow us on live tracking (real
Your options are internet cafes and use a wifi connection to call home.
You can send your position from your GPS but you'll need to work out how to
how it. Are there any Internet cafes in the area you are travelling.
OpenStreetMap has many of them but it does not include them all.
Conventional ce
my family while I'm away so I could
>> have 3 in one device: phone, GPS and live tracking. I would have to carry
>> less stuff and less things to charge.
>> If there is no possibility of ive tracking for Osmand than nothing. will
>> carry my SPOT
>>
>> sg
s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_Satellite_Messenger
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
>
> Dne neděle 25. února 2018 14:37:21 UTC+1 john whelan napsal(a):
>>
>> SPOT will do it and uses satellite so doesn't need any local
>> communication network.
>>
>>
When I do an address search I first select city or town then streets within
that city and finally it gives me a list of numbers of buildings in the
street.
Is this the search you are using? Or are you doing something else?
Is there something else that might cause it not to work? Well does
OpenS
I checked it in JOSM and can see no reason why it wouldn't show on an
address search.
Cheerio John
On 9 March 2018 at 20:48, Bart Eisenberg wrote:
> The building is indeed on OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/565561288
>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 5:03 PM john whelan wrote:
earch by selecting the suburb followed by the street name,
> the only options that I am given are "Everglade - Dew Street" and "Orb -
> Dew Street" as well as Online Search. Is there normally numbers as well as
> the intersections as options?
>
> Thanks,
>
&g
I've replaced one of my older tablets with a new new one so redownloaded
OSMand paid for version.
The price seems to have gone up substantially as its now seems to be a
monthly fee or am I confusing something?
Thanks John
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>
> Dňa sobota, 19. mája 2018 18:02:26 UTC+2 john whelan napísal(-a):
>>
>> I've replaced one of my older tablets with a new n
Depending where you are located and how long you can wait a "refurbished"
one might work well.
Newegg.com have LG G5 H830 ( T-Mobile Version ) $150 ships from China.
They seem to be new. Don't have the FM radio since they are T-mobile but
they are fast, have a very good camera and display and unl
I ride a recumbent trike so width can be an issue and so can ground
clearance.
However I recently plotted a route and the path it selected involved a path
through a park that went down a gulley, so very steep up and down portions,
and additionally it was earth so after some recent rainfall the bac
like to use but thanks for the suggestion. I'll pull it into the
device and see how it does when I play with it.
Thanks John
On 13 September 2018 at 17:33, Majka wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday, 13 September 2018 23:15:09 UTC+2, john whelan wrote:
>>
>> I ride a recumbent tri
The osmand routing works if I drop in a way point to avoid the problem path.
Cheerio John
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, 7:22 pm john whelan, wrote:
> I looked at the web interface. Using fast bike low traffic it took me
> along a fairly major narrow four lane highway that has a higher speed
In OSM it is a 61 node way. In other words fairly large.
In contrast Ottawa University, Ottawa Ontario Canada has both a campus
outlined and a building tagged Ottawa University. It stands out a bit more
easily.
St. John's College Santa Fe, NM is found quite nicely in nomation but
unfortunately
Did you purchase the contours plugin from the Amazon store?
If so it may not have registered on the google store.
Cheerio John
On Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:48 PM Richard Quint,
wrote:
> I purchased OsmAnd+ and the contour line plug in several years ago for my
> Kindle Fire. When I tried to install
I suspect the place to ask for this is on github.
Cheerio John
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 1:11 PM Peter Jombík, wrote:
> we ask for it 2 years... noone answer...
>
> Dňa nedeľa, 3. novembra 2019 10:16:34 UTC+1 Hi There napísal(-a):
>>
>>
>> Is there such a thing? a POI that shows/lists bridges,
>>
If they are interesting and have the correct licence have you thought about
importing them into OpenStreetMap?
Be aware there is a process to do this and it might be more complex than
first appears.
Cheerio John
On Mon, Dec 2, 2019, 12:57 PM David Bengoa Rocandio, <
da...@bengoarocandio.com> wro
Assuming you are running windows you wiil need an Android emulator such
as BlueStacks or YouWave.
There are others.
Cheerio John
Tom Norton wrote on 2020-01-17 4:13 PM:
I am REALLY tech challenged! So here is my question.
I use Osmand on my Android phone and tablet. Can it be installed on my
No idea but the first is slightly better known. Google may help.
Sorry John
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 7:34 PM Tom Norton, wrote:
> Thanks! I have never heard of either. But then again I am "challenged""!
> Is one preferably?
>
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Brouter is fast and can be run on a smartphone. It is dedicated to
routing. However it does take up resources so on a slower phone or one
without so much memory OSMAND will still run without Brouter.
OSMAND gets the routing job done. It might not be the fastest on the
planet but it works.
Network Browser an Android app can be useful in no cables are required.
Cheerio John
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 3:31 PM Peer wrote:
> You can use dropbox (or simular)
>
> I store tracks from my android simulator (genymotion) on my pc. Then I
> copy the files with filezilla (ssh) to my phone. On my p
If you purchased it through the Google app store any device that has the
same Google name will be able to install it.
Basically if it uses the same gmail address it should work.
Cheerio John
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020, 11:42 'e.ru...@quicknet.nl' via OsmAnd <
osmand@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
In Ottawa Canada at Lyon station I wanted to find a route to walk to 60
Cambridge Street.
The station has at least two exits one of which is closer to my destination.
How do I tell OSMAND where to start? Lyon station doesn't work well as the
station is underground and I don't want to know a rout
in OSM?
-CP
Op 25-11-2020 om 15:28 schreef john whelan:
In Ottawa Canada at Lyon station I wanted to find a route to walk to
60 Cambridge Street.
The station has at least two exits one of which is closer to my
destination.
How do I tell OSMAND where to start? Lyon station doesn't
hard to find/use them.
Dne 25. listopadu 2020 15:28:44 john whelan
napsal:
In Ottawa Canada at Lyon station I wanted to find a route to walk to
60 Cambridge Street.
The station has at least two exits one of which is closer to my
destination.
How do I tell OSMAND where to start? Lyon
g is to know what
> to set as the navigation point, without looking at the map nor having
> knowledge of the place.
>
> Dne 25. listopadu 2020 18:22:17 John Whelan
> napsal:
>
>> So you are saying that search for in OSMAND followed by directions is a
>> waste of time and y
if he has no idea what to search for.
Dne 25. listopadu 2020 20:55:07 john whelan
napsal:
And that is the issue finding or adding a tag that I can search for
in OSMAND.
Cheerio John
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 14:01 Poutnik Fornntp <mailto:poutnik4n...@gmail.com>> wrote:
No, I
sults including Lyon, Underground entrance, as well as the
platforms. If I start typing 'entrance', Underground entrance is an
option and then I get the option to show underground entrances on the
map (or choose by name). Is that what you want?
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, 14:28 john whelan,
Osmand uses a snapshot of the OSM database. Your address might not have
been mapped when the snapshot was taken.
Cheerio John
On Sun, Aug 7, 2022, 11:56 Haowen Liu wrote:
> I got exactly the same result as before, i.e. the street itself. After
> clicking into the street I only see the several
Looking at the base data in JOSM the building has no number attached.
Time to add some building numbers I suspect.
OSM Nominatim is a separate program that things like JOSM use and has
it's own idiosyncrasies. For many years it only used UK postcodes not
Canadian ones.
Cheerio John
Haowe
Cx file Explorer might work but I don't run android 13.
Cheerio John
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 16:48 ra wrote:
> please advise: I need a files manager who can see ALL files in android13,
> i.e. the osmand data in android > data > net.osmand.plus. all files
> managers I have tested so far just show
If I wish to add POI information to an outline of a building tagged
building=yes how do I select the building in OSMand to add or add tags to
it?
Thanks John
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> PS: I recommend Vespucci editor for Android about your aim.
>
>
>
> Am Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2016 17:34:50 UTC+2 schrieb john whelan:
>>
>> If I wish to add POI information to an outline of a building tagged
>> building=yes how do I select the building in OSMand to ad
Success but it would appear that I can only edit certain nodes ie those
designated POI by OSMand. For instance I am unable to add a postcode to a
house even though it is a node in OSM.
Interesting it could be done with good documentation but the buildings
would need some sort of node that OSMand
I think the most pertinent point is the indexes change so if you want
everything to work with the latest version you need to recreate the .obf
file.
Cheerio John
On 4 July 2016 at 03:51, James wrote:
> Can anyone tell me, how to see the changelogs of Map creator, to see
> what's new in versi
Do you have wifi on your phone?
Thanks John
On 5 July 2016 at 14:25, Egal wrote:
> Does somebody knows the real download link, which uses the map management
> of OSMand ?
>
> @Harry von der Wolf:
> The link http://download.osmand.net/rawindexes/ is absolute NOT the same
> link as OSMand uses. T
So if you have a wifi router you can pull the data file in over wifi and
save your data budget. You may have to configure the phone to turn off the
over air connection. If you don't try an internet cafe but you may need a
browser to get past the agreement front page.
Cheerio John
On 5 July 2016
Why cheaper? If you are down loading on WiFi the cost is the same on the
phone or the PC.
Cheerio John
On 5 Jul 2016 3:45 pm, "Egal" wrote:
> It would be easier and cheaper, when somebody knows the real download
> link. Is it a secret ? I don't think so.
>
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There are other issues such as restricting access to people who have
purchased the product.
There used to be a type of torrent available but I'm not sure if it still
is.
Cheerio John
On 5 Jul 2016 3:56 pm, "john whelan" wrote:
> Why cheaper? If you are down loading on Wi
Note to Egal, I find Harry's posts useful. No one knows everything
especially in the world of software. Just because things do not work the
way you would like them to doesn't mean the world will change to fit round
you.
You have a solution buy a router with wifi, if you have a lap top with win
1
cing the
>> files.
>> In a few hours it should be all synced.
>>
>> Miguel Domingues
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Miguel Domingues > > wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for alerting me, i'll see what's wrong.
>>> Em 05/12/2
http://openlocationcode.com/
In many parts of the world buildings do not have an address. There are a
number of different proposals floating around such as three words etc.
It's not perfect in that there is little protection against transposing
numbers within the address and many Post Offices pr
For many parts of the world there is no street address but there is a
latitude and longitude set of coordinates.
If a bar code with the coordinates could be scanned with a smartphone and
the resultant location displayed in OSMand then I think we would have a
practical solution to an address where
That sounds like another bit of the puzzle.
Thanks John
On 10 September 2016 at 17:13, Max Erickson wrote:
>
> On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 4:16:37 PM UTC-4, john whelan wrote:
>>
>> For many parts of the world there is no street address but there is a
>> latit
I'm getting something like 20-50 of these each day. The emails from other
people I wish to read are getting lost.
I can unsubscribe to a particular thread but that just cuts the number to
19-49 per day and it soon back up to the normal number.
I am feeling very frustrated.
At the end of a week
hen ignoring.
>>
>>
>> Dne 18/09/2016 v 19:19 CP napsal(a):
>>
>> John, I'm not in the same boat as you. So forgive me for probably a silly
>> suggestion. But my email filters take all this work out of my hands. Could
>> it work for you too? I think there ar
The native file type of OSMAND .obf contains indexes and I suspect contains
a subset of what is in a .pbf file. You can generate a .obf file from a
.pbf file using the mapcreator associated with osmand.
Cheerio John
On 28 November 2016 at 17:36, David Taylor wrote:
> To summarize it is not pos
Locally we have strip malls. The building outline has been mapped with the
address, postcode, etc. Nodes are used within the building to identify the
individual units, coffee shop, pizza takeaway etc.
If I select a node it seems to select the nearest highway rather than
picking up the informatio
At 45.4667192, -75.4908625 there is a node within a building outline. The
building outline has the address and postcode.
OSMand does not appear to use them when giving the address but grabs the
street name fro the nearest street. Note there are multiple nodes within
the building outline and they
Please raise an issue, it is a difficulty when the address is on the
building outline and you want to find a cafe marked as a node inside the
mall for example.
Thanks John
On 6 January 2017 at 19:21, Gavinx wrote:
> I really like the ability to select POI and obtain additional information.
>
>
I assume you've downloaded the area you wish to travel?
Basically you start with a starting point then search for your destination
and say show the route. I'd try it on a short trip first.
Cheerio John
On 7 January 2017 at 11:11, Terry Jones wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've heard and read uniformly g
It does depend on the country and even in the UK there are locations where
it is permitted. The West Midlands for example.
Cheerio John
On 21 January 2017 at 04:59, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I've noticed that bicycle routing is trying to use footways, when in
> general, footway implies bicycle=no.
grab the daily dump then trim it down to the size you want then use
mapcreator to generate the file for osmand.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmAndMapCreator
copy the .obf file onto the device etc.
Cheerio John
On 24 February 2017 at 15:31, Gavinx wrote:
> I am doing a lot of mapping wo
Locally cycle parking racks are few and far between. With a fairly
expensive recumbent trike knowing there is something I can lock it too
makes a major sometimes.
I agree though that cyclists and car drivers have different requirements so
would support not having my map cluttered up with car park
I'm running 2.6.3 I have downloaded Ontario today, I have downloaded
contour lines and hillshades.
I still do not see the elevation profile.
Thoughts please.
Thanks John
On 5 May 2017 at 11:37, Bart Eisenberg wrote:
> I've slightly tweaked this and published it. The new link is
> https://you
levation is now embedded in the map itself: the contour and hillshade
> layers aren't needed.
>
> This is so far just a hunch. If I can get a confirmation here, I'll
> annotate the video.
>
> On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 11:03:30 AM UTC-7, john whelan wrote:
>>
>
I live at the boundary of Ontario and Quebec so I need both maps.
However most of Ontario is more than four hours drive away and I hate to
think how long it would take to cycle it.
Could some thought be given to making maps based on a city's location, that
would save 90% of my downloads and save
before. I must
confess having to know where on the map to touch to display the menu might
not be the easiest of tasks to a new user.
Cheerio John
On 5 May 2017 3:29 pm, wrote:
> On Friday, 5 May 2017 19:03:30 UTC+1, john whelan wrote:
>>
>> I'm running 2.6.3 I have downloaded O
Not all of us have the latest device that can be expanded by adding a
memory card and downloading 500 mb when 50 will do isn't exactly friendly
to those who do not have unlimited bandwidth or who forgot to download the
area first and are using an Internet cafe to grab an update.
Besides which thos
eating your own maps
> especially for these kind of pruposes: http://osmand.net/
> help-online?id=technical-articles#Create_offline_maps_for_yourself.
> It was written for linux but it can be easily adapted for windows.
>
> Harry
>
> 2017-05-05 23:25 GMT+02:00 john whelan :
>
31st march was 1 month and 1 week ago, its not that late yet.
Cheerio John
On 6 May 2017 at 15:25, Friedrich Kircher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I miss updates of maps for Latin America. Last update was 31 March, 2
> months and 1 week has passed and no new version is offered for download..
> Anyone nows a
The maps are version dependant. So a new map will probably not work with
an old version. You can create your own.
What problems are you seeing with the new version?
Thanks John
On 18 May 2017 12:22 p.m., "Igor M." wrote:
> No, i need osmand PLUS version just for map updates.
>
> среда, 17 ма
orks fine, but current versions slow so much
> and impossible to use.
>
> четверг, 18 мая 2017 г., 20:59:47 UTC+4 пользователь john whelan написал:
>>
>> The maps are version dependant. So a new map will probably not work with
>> an old version. You can create your own.
&g
Manually download on a windows machine then copy the files over.
Cheerio John
On 20 May 2017 at 09:35, James Vellenga wrote:
> I just installed Osmand, and was trying to download the map files, and
> they won't download. After a few aborted attempts, I switched off my wifi
> and downloaded a re
n't work
> either, nor does downloading from my Linux box.
>
> Sent from my Android.
>
> On 20 May 2017 9:38 AM, "john whelan" wrote:
>
>> Manually download on a windows machine then copy the files over.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> On 20 May 20
Try firefox it has a built in download manager.
Cheerio John
On 20 May 2017 at 18:59, James Vellenga wrote:
> Frustratingly it doesn't work for me. After loading the list, once I
> select a file it will tell me it is taking to long and the site cannot be
> reached.
>
> On Saturday, 20 May 2017
You could start with OpenStreetMap rather than Google. OSMAND
openstreetmap android.
Cheerio John
On 3 July 2017 at 10:22, wrote:
> Hi, first I'd like to show you something, and then ask questions how to
> make it better.
>
>
> -- Google MyMaps --> OsmAnd
>
> One of the best things abo
; appreciate the example, and I think some others would too!
>
> Best regards,
> David
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3 July 2017 at 16:30, john whelan wrote:
>
>> You could start with OpenStreetMap rather than Google. OSMAND
>> openstreetmap android.
>>
>>
?*
> or *refrain from further off-topic commenting*. Thank you very much.
>
>
>
> On Monday, July 3, 2017 at 4:44:32 PM UTC+2, john whelan wrote:
>>
>> You can create your own maps for OSMand. There are a multitude of tools
>> available to process OSM format files incl
Technically you can download the OSM data here:
https://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html then use osmconvet64 to cut out
the part of California you want followed by using mapcreator
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmAndMapCreator to convert it to a map
osmand can read in. Copy it to you dev
Correction I don't think that applies to contour lines.
Sorry John
On 23 July 2017 at 10:22, john whelan wrote:
> Technically you can download the OSM data here:
> https://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html then use osmconvet64 to cut
> out the part of California you want fol
Try the free version first. It has practically the same functionality
except you are limited to downloading ten maps.
Cheerio John
On 9 Aug 2017 11:33 am, "Line Hansen" wrote:
> Thank you Dave, for taking your time to help me :)
>
> An other OsmAnd user is answering "no" to most of the questio
Electronic equipment likes a very smooth power supply. Computers last
longer when they are behind a UPS.
Fifty years ago we used an electric motor / generator set that smoothed out
the variations in mains power supplies.
A mil spec phone might be able to withstand charging from a bicycle dynamo
>What does it actually crash with (this StackOverflow entry might be useful
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3643395/how-to-get-android-crash-logs
)? Does it crash when you just plug in or unplug a regular phone charger?
If not, then something must be different - and perhaps broken - about th
The problem is you need to isolate the phone so charging the power pack up
then disconnecting it from the dynamo would work fine but having the phone
connections and the dynamo connections connected would mean fluctuations
still reach the phone.
It would however diminish brownouts but the phone's
On a conventional PC that has an under sized power supply it will run quite
happily until the power required is greater than can be powered by the
power supply.
On a PC you can put a meter on the cord going to the wall then run
different software on the PC. Some will use noticably more power than
have that on when needed.
>
> What if I deleted most of my maps? Is Osmand searching through all of my
> maps when it starts up? If I only have one country installed then maybe
> that would help? I have all of Europe on my memory card at the moment.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
A simpler way would be to use maperitive to create a .jpg or do a screen
capture and edit the image just ensuring the osm street map logo is on.
It's normally very simple to add a .jpg to a web site.
Then trace the walk(s) in a different colour. If they have waypoints on
the map document them so
In Ottawa Canada the buses are equipped with a screen about 12 inch display
mounted at an angle for the bus driver to look at. They don't use OSMand
but do display the position of the bus on a map and where the route is. I
wonder if what they do use could be duplicated using OSMand. It might be
If it is Open Data could it just be added to OSM?
There are some hoops to jump through but once added it would be available
to all.
Cheerio John
On 23 Oct 2017 9:45 am, "joost schouppe" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just rediscovered this script that takes Belgium/Flanders official
> address data to Osma
The other way is to go and fix the problem of labeling on the highways.
Which countries?
Thanks John
On 21 December 2017 at 08:44, Tadeus Ratzfatz wrote:
>
> I use Osmand in western africa. There I have the problem, that often main
> roads are tagged as "tracks" and not as primary or secondary
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