Hi Krzystof,

It's and old topic but I  would be interested in whether you succeeded in 
modifying the routing.xml file as you wanted. Looking to do the same for 
Netherlands, which unfortunately contains very few unpaved roads.


Cheers,
Roel


On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 10:24:27 PM UTC+1, Krzysztof Poland 
wrote:
>
> Correct me if I misunderstand you. If you can, point me to documentation 
> of this feature (routing).
>
>    1. This file overwrites and controls embedded default routing 
>    parameters in osmand.
>    2. It looks like both the current and the new routing engines are 
>    controlled with this file.
>    3. The existence of this file in osmand directory overwrites (or 
>    controls) any routing parameters including those in the osmand menu.
>    4. Selecting routing profile (car/bicycle/pedestrian), the osmand 
>    routing engine uses only parameters defined in routing.xml file.
>
> Concluding, if I leave car profile params unchanged, and tune bicycle 
> profile parameters to my unpaved road motorcycle riding preferences, osmand 
> will do routing for car like it has done so far, while by selecting 
> "bicycle" profile I will get routing by unpaved roads and paths.
> It bases on assumption that the published "routing.xml" file reflects 
> default routing parameters for all profiles embedded in the current version 
> of osmand.
>
> Am I right?
> Krzysztof
>
>
> W dniu poniedziałek, 11 listopada 2013 17:04:53 UTC+1 użytkownik Harry van 
> der Wolf napisał:
>>
>> The routing is determined by the routing.xml. See: 
>> https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-resources/blob/master/routing/routing.xml
>> It shouldn't be too hard to modify this one and make one yourself which 
>> you can put inside your OsmAnd folder on your phone.
>> Note though that the routing.xml in your OsmAnd folder will ALWAYS be 
>> used, also when you are in your car and certainly don't want to go over 
>> unpaved roads.
>> The best would be to have another mode next to browse/car/cycling/hiking 
>> but your request is a very specific request and we already had requests for 
>> "normal" motorcycle routes (nice roads for motors). And also for 
>> trucks/campers/caravans.
>>
>> The best, I think, would be a "custom mode" in which you can adapt all 
>> priority/routing settings to change the default routing.
>> Given the current OsmAnd priorities creating a huge workload on the 
>> programmer already, spending so much free time on OsmAnd, I think this will 
>> take some time :)
>>
>> And with regard to your "way-point to way-point" navigation: It has been 
>> asked before. But again: There is (normally) only one (gifted) programmer 
>> working on Osmand only being able to do as much as time and motivation 
>> allows. And that is already a lot.
>>
>> Harry
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/11/11 Krzysztof Poland <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Hello
>>> I'm searching OsmAnd threads about off-road navigation. I use OsmAnd to 
>>> navigate off-road mainly.
>>> In my country many rural roads as well as roads connecting villages are 
>>> unpaved so they are the best for dirt-bikes.
>>>
>>> In the current version (1.6.5) of osmand there is a feature called 
>>> "prefer highways". This can be used with the "shortest" or "fastest" road.
>>> If along with "prefer highways",  "prefer unpaved roads" will be added, 
>>> using it together with "shortest" should be very useful for off-road 
>>> navigation.
>>> I'm wondering if it is possible to invert attributes used to evaluate 
>>> roads between highways (mainroads) and unpaved roads and use the same 
>>> routing algorithm.
>>>
>>> Moreover, during real off-roads where there are no roads, there should 
>>> be a feature like "way-point to way-point" navigation. In old garmin 
>>> devices it was very useful. Maybe GPX navigation works like it, but I've 
>>> never used it.
>>> If you are aware of a thread which better suits the matter and which 
>>> more considerably affects the implementation of new features into osmand, 
>>> please, post a link here. We could further discuss the issue there.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Krzysztof
>>>
>>>
>>> W dniu środa, 26 czerwca 2013 21:05:06 UTC+2 użytkownik C K napisał:
>>>
>>>> I did not think about dirt bikes.
>>>> Routing would not lead to any tracks in Central Europe because all dirt 
>>>> roads are either private property or banned driving for all vehicles but 
>>>> farm vehicles.
>>>>
>>>> Car routing is not the same as motorcycle routing.
>>>> With car routing the route is either optimized to shortest  time or 
>>>> shortest distance. Motorcycling routes should be optimized to a more 
>>>> qualitative factor like "The route is the reward"...
>>>>
>>>> I've read that the TomTom Riders Series is equipped with such an 
>>>> algorithm. But I never had the chance to try it nor do I have any clue how 
>>>> they implemented it.
>>>>
>>>> Usually when you do offroading you do not use roads in a commons sense 
>>>> - it's more comparable to hiking - with a bike though :)
>>>>
>>>> Any further ideas? 
>>>> Suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Chris 
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 18:55:05 UTC+2, S.by wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have also thought about this ... long time ago ... this is indeed a 
>>>>> missing link ... to a major audience ... but i didn't suggested it 
>>>>> because 
>>>>> i am not sure which routing will it provide ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Routing in dirt roads/paths and regular roads ? that's just what "car" 
>>>>> routing is now .
>>>>>
>>>>> The fact is that there are 2 major motorcycles types : 1 ) road bikes 
>>>>>   2) dirt bikes 
>>>>>
>>>>> The last category "dirt bikes" also has sub categories ... bike that 
>>>>> can't go on paved roads (motorcross) and bikes that meant for dirt roads 
>>>>> only but can go on paved roads also .  
>>>>>
>>>>> Well the first one .. hence "road bikes"  "car"  is covered already by 
>>>>> "car" profile.
>>>>>
>>>>> The car profile today has a "wheal" icon which represents paved roads 
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> About the bicycle profile ... well maybe this profile category fits 
>>>>> "dirt (only) bikes"  (motocross)  .. But creating an icon that contain 
>>>>> bike 
>>>>> and a motocross motorcycle in the same icon is very hard . 
>>>>>
>>>>>      
>>>>>
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