<div dir="ltr">I have to correct myself: I thought OsmAnd really performed routing when navigating using a gpx trail. It doesn't, I tested it today. It translates turns in the track into screen messgaes and spoken text messages, without doing anything with the map. So it will send you into a ravine if your track goes there. <div>But it can route you to the start of your track, and when you go off-track, it routes you back on track.<div><br></div><div>All the more reason why the gpx should be a correctly ordered single chain.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Fr gr Peter Elderson</div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op di 20 aug. 2019 om 16:57 schreef Peter Elderson <<a href="mailto:pelderson@gmail.com">pelderson@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Andy Townsend <<a href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com" target="_blank">ajt1047@gmail.com</a>>:<br><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div>Ok, I accept I just don't know how it's done. So how is
that done? How do I tell my Garmin to guide me along, say,
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<p>Essentially, you'd just look at the screen and follow that! I
tend to use waypoints for an idea of things like "how long will it
be until I get to where I'm going to stop for lunch", not for
"turn left here because route XYZ turns left here", because you
can see on the screen that route XYZ "turns left here".<br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div>So it’s not done. The osm route is not used to route. You can see it and keep yor dot on the line, but the navigating device does not navigate along the route. It can navigate, it has the route, but it does not do it unless I create gpx from the route, send that to the device, which then recreates the route from the gpx.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p>
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<p>If you want to add a series of waypoints and route along those
then you can, but want you can't typically do with one of the
hiking-oriented Garmins is follow a particular feature. You could
create an OSM-based Garmin map that forced a device to route along
a trail at the expense of any other paths, but I certainly
wouldn't want to do that as it would stop me from leaving the
trail to eat in a nearby town.<br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nothing stops you from leaving the route, and I expect the device to route me back to the track afterwards. And it does, and so does OsmAnd.</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p>
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<p>Creating a Garmin route from a GPX file is possible, but probably
impractical, as you'd need to restrict the number of points.
Apparently my GPSMap 64 supports 200 routes with 250 points per
route, and up to 5000 waypoints in total.</p></div></blockquote><div>If only there were a way to store permanent routes in, say, a mapping database, which could be used to determine what ways to follow...</div><div><br></div><div>You only need to load the section(s) for the next day or a few days. Afterwards, just remove them. No problem. I have had no problems to load the via degli dei as 7 sections, each a day’s walk. No restrictions necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>I also loaded these in OsmAnd and had it guide me all the way voice-in-ear, ie not having to look at the screen at all. </div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<p>Where Garmin on-device routing is really useful is for when you
need to get to somewhere but don't have an on-screen route to
follow - for example if the weather's turned and you need to abort
a previously planned route and get another route to your
destination from where you currently are. It's also useful where
there are natural obstacles like rivers, where the distance on
foot may be significantly more than the as-the-crow-flies
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<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Andy</p>
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