I accidently made it work more or less the way I wanted it to!
Turns out the waypoints in GPX should be saved as shaping points. I did a
quick testdrive around the block and this is what happened:
- Turn by turn voice-navigation with streetnames and which lanes to follow.
So I can actually leave the phone in my pocket and put in a earpiece to
listen to the directions.
- If I run into an unexpected obstacle I navigate myself around it, Osmand
will pick up the remaining part of the route and recalculate it from my
current position without insisting to visit a missed waypoint.
- It did this without telling me I was approaching and reaching a waypoint
all the time.
Ofcourse this is exactly what I wanted it to do!
Two hickups so far:
- The route Osmand calculated was different from what I intended it to be
when I was composing the route on the personal computer. That would be
because of the difference between the used map-material (Google Maps vs
Open streetsource). So adding more shaping points would take care of that.
- When I reached my destination it told me to navigate around the block the
other way around again, only to end up in the exact same spot I was
standing at that very moment. I'm not sure why it did that.
Now for the next test which I need to conduct is find out what Osmand does
when busroute does the same strip of street twice within the same route
(for instance, the first time to reach a busstation, the second time
leaving the busstation and thus ending up in the same street I drove
through a couple of minutes earlier only to go another way the second
time). If this should cause problems I think I have to cut up the route in
2 different files.
Op zondag 3 september 2017 14:44:22 UTC+2 schreef Westnederland:
>
> Hello,
>
> We are a group of public transport busdrivers who are curious if it is
> possible to get OsmAnd to work with our specific needs.
>
> We drive multiple different routes during a shift as part of a total of
> 30+ different routes we can be dispatched to. So we need to memorize al of
> these routes. If there is a detour due to a event or roadworks, we also
> need to memorize that. We thought it could be usefull to use OsmAnd in
> areas we are not familair with, like new busroutes we need to memorize or a
> diversion which leads us into unknown territory. We want to do this
> *without* the navigation screen, so purely by voice-turn by turn TTS
> instructions by connecting earphones to the phone so we can hear the
> instructions in one ear while the other ear and our eyes are concentrating
> on the traffic and our passengers.
>
> Also, we would like the navigation to recalculate a route when we had to
> go on unsuspected diversion like a road closure due to an accident. We
> don't want the navigation to keep trying to get us back to a missed
> waypoint or something like that before it wants to proceed with the rest of
> the route.
>
> However, we can't seem to get it to work like we want it to.
>
> What we tried so far is made GPX files online with both Myrouteapp als
> Ridewithgps and tried pretty much every setting these sites would give us:
> Save as GPX 1.0, save as GPX 1.1, in Ridewithgps adding turn-cues and
> saving them within the GPX-track with setting "include cues as waypoints",
> the same thing but then using POI waypoints, saving both cues as POI as
> waypoints, saving as GPX ROUTE instead of GPS TRACK.....
>
> In all of these testcases pretty much the same happened.
>
> - No streetname announcement, exept when we went off-route and OsmAnd was
> trying to get us back on route again.
>
> - No clear turn by turn voice guidance.
> There was some guidance but the timing of it is way off. Some voice
> instructions are too soon (like turn right in 300 meters, then 100 meter
> before the actual turn it would say "Turn right" which would cause us to
> turn right into the wrong street or even it tells us to turn right when we
> have to make a left turn FIRST before we get to the point where we have to
> turn right). We can't find a setting to adjust this anywere...?
> Some instructions are left out all together (like in a highway setting it
> would tell us to "Keep following the road" when in reality we have to make
> a turn to a different highway, or even to get off the highway it would not
> tell that at all).
>
> I know a bit about the technical side of it, so I know GPX by itself would
> never announce streetnames and clear guidance. I do know this information
> can be stored in GPX-files... so that is why we opened an account with
> ridewithgps-website where you can add navigation cues and/or POI with
> navigation clues to the GPX files. However:
>
> - The navigation cues as in Ridewithgps ("add to cuesheet" and type the
> tekst you want to be spoken by OsmAnd into the "notes"-section) are not
> being pronounced at all.
> All it pronounces is the *type* of navigation cue (e.g. Left, right,
> straight") and it does that like this --> "In 300 meters you reach your GPX
> waypoint Left".... "Turn left and then you reach your GPX-waypoint
> Left"..... "You have reached your GPX-waypoint Left".
> What we intended was for OsmAnd to *not* announce the nearing or reaching
> of a GPX waypoint but simply reading out loud what we typed in the
> Notes-box within Ridemygps-site. The type of navigation cue is in a box
> which cannot be typed in by us on the Ridewithgps site.
>
> - The same thing applys to POI's with typed extra info. However, this time
> it would actually speak out loud what was typed. For instance:
> "In 300 meters you reach your GPX waypoint Turn left into Main Street"....
> "Turn left and then you reach your GPX-waypoint Turn left into Main
> Street"..... "You have reached your GPX-waypoint Turn left into Main
> Street".
>
> We did remove the tick in the OsmAnd settings in "Navigation settings --->
> navigation properties ---> Announce "GPX waypoints" and even removed ticks
> at "Favourits" and "interesting places" (I'm not sure if in the English
> edition this would be the exact translation but I think you know what I
> mean hopefully), but Osmand would just announce the waypoints (both cues
> and POI) in the exact same way as described above.
>
>
> It did teach me that Osmand can proncounce through TTS what is typed
> within <name> </name> tags (looking at the XML-data of al the tested
> GPX-files).
>
>
> So what would help is:
>
> - Make and save a route in GPX-track (not GPX-route) format.
>
> - Be able to put the name-tags in there in a fairly easy way in all the
> right places so we can prepare the TTS-announcements ourselves at home,
> preferribly on the desktop computer, before we go out en work our shift.
>
> - Use of name-tags without the "In 300 meters you reach your GPX waypoint
> Turn left into Main Street".... "Turn left and then you reach your
> GPX-waypoint Turn left into Main Street"..... "You have reached your
> GPX-waypoint Turn left into Main Street", just "Turn left into Main Street"
> on the right moment.
>
> - Specificly GPX tracks and not GPX routes because a track can work with
> you when you have a unexpected detour, as where a route will try to get you
> back to a missed waypoint first before carrying on with the remaining part
> of the route.
>
>
> Is there anyone here who can help us accomplish this? Thanks for your
> time!
>
>
>
--
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.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
