Thank you Tom, Bart and Xavier for these answers, they really did help! My question #11 was, I realize, silly: of course steepness depends on route, and so the existing altitude profile for a route, will be enough *slap face*!
And for #3,#4: if Vespucci exists as an app to tap into all underlying details in OSM, I wouldn't necessarily propose to burden OSMAnd with this, as I'm sure the devs have already considered it. On Friday, June 19, 2020 at 7:58:29 PM UTC+2, Xavier wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 05:44:00PM +0100, Tom Crocker wrote: > >Hi Francesco > > > >3+4) I'd like it if the tags of ways and areas could be shown on osmand, > as > >they are for nodes. I expect it's about keeping the interface usable for > >the average user. > > It may have more to do with keeping the size of the map files down. > > OSMAnd is a navigation app, not a general OpenStreetMap data > viewing/editing app (for that, there is Vespucci, http://vespucci.io/, > which allows viewing/editing *all* of the underlying OSM data). > > There is a lot of data tagged in OSM that has no impact for routing > purposes, and I suspect that tag data in OSM that is not necessary for > routing is omitted when building the OSMAnd map data files (both to > keep them smaller, and to speed up access on phones). If this is the > case, then OSMAnd will never be able to show the details that Vespucci > can, simply because it does not have all of the underlying OSM data > available. > > With the above said, I can see the usefulness of being able to view > some form of "advanced details" about the various items OSMAnd's maps > do contain, if for no other reason than a quick verification of "is > some (routing relevant) data missing here...". > > So if Francesco would like to float this suggestion by the OSMAnd devs, > he should register it on the OSMAnd Github tracker here: > > https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/4f4c2fab-471f-403a-9306-28d7866658dbo%40googlegroups.com.
