High level actions on Favourites

[Mark Howard]

If I load, say, 50 POI's into OsmAnd via a GPX file, can I assign them to a new category with a specified icon shape and colour in a single group action?

If so, any pointers as to "how" would be appreciated.

[A Thompson]

Faced with the same situation, I discovered a work-around. When you import the GPX as favourites, the new POIs go into the default folder called "Favourites". If you make sure that prior to the import this folder is empty (or even deleted) by moving any contents to other named folders, then after the import your new POIs are all in the "Favourites" folder by them selves. Then you can simply rename "Favourites" to whatever you like, change its appearance, etc.

You can do this repeatedly - if you made a second import, OsmAnd would recreate "Favourites" for the new POIs, and you can rename it again.

It's an easy system once you get into the habit of using "Favourites" solely for importing.

I hope that helps! I think I made it sound more complicated than it is...

[Mark Howard]

Thanks for the response.  That looks worth having a play with, which I'll do tomorrow.

Very new to OsmAnd.

Am not sure when you are talking about "folders" are they folders at Android file level - or folders within the OsmAnd app?

[A Thompson]

OsmAnd  has so many features, all created by open-source developers, that even frequent users need to keep exploring to see what works.

No, by "folders" I was talking about the named sub-folders you can create within My_Places>My_Favourites within OsmAnd.

Would you like me to post some screenshots to illustrate what I was trying to say?

[Mark Howard]

That's great, thanks.

I have managed to load all the POIs into different categories and assigned different colours to each.

All that is missing is the ability to assign special icons to each category.  

But I can live without that :-)

[A Thompson]

Great!

 I was just experimenting a bit more. What I said about imported GPX POIs appearing in My_Places>My_Favourites>"Favourites" applies when you click on the .gpx in a file manager and select OsmAnd as the app to open it with. If instead you import by going to My_Places>My_Favourites within Osmand, and choosing "+" in the tool bar at the top, then OsmAnd automatically creates a new favourites group/folder with the same name as the .gpx file, rather than using the "Favourites" folder.

As for icons, it's odd... When you manually create a new favourite (long press on the map, then select the star) you get a rich set of options for its appearance, but I can''t see how to apply that to an existing group either. The user interface is one of the things the devs are working on most at the moment, so I would guess that this is likely to improve in future releases.

[Mark Howard]

That's good to hear (the work on the UI).
Watch this space, I guess.

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[joachim.sch...@googlemail.com]

I didn't know about this possibility to create subfolders. And I tried to find it according to your description. What UI element is it? All I see that looks like suitable is the "+" sign. But this leads me to a file open dialogue.

[A Thompson]

I agree that the option doesn't seem to be present on the My_Places>My_Favourites  screen as you would expect. But if you create a new favourite or edit an existing one then you will see a "select group" section in the setup screen for that favourite. At the end of the list of current groups is the option to add a new group.

[joachim.sch...@googlemail.com]

Thank you, I found it!

Now something equivalent for organizing tracks and routes would be fine. But so far I only managed by creating folders in the file system by hand.