VOICE TURN-BY-TURN ISSUE

[Charles Buono]

I create maps to use on long-distance motorcycle trips. I create the route in Google My Maps and then share the link to GPS Visualizer to convert to .GPX. Then I use GPS Track Editor v1.15.141 to validate and fine tune the route.This method works well, however, I have noticed that the voice guidance will occasionally omit a voice prompt for a turn. It is especially frustration when entering a freeway exchange where the road branches out in many directions. Is there a way to correct this? Thanks..

[Bart Eisenberg]

Does the voice guidance name what streets and highways to turn on? Or are the directions generic: i.e., turn left, turn right? 

[Charles Buono]

It announces the direction and street.

[Bart Eisenberg]

I don't have an answer, but I'm impressed you are able to get street-by-street directions.  For externally-created GPXs, most reports here describe a situation where OsmAnd follows the GPX, but not the underlying map. Which means that every twist in the road is announced generically as a turn. I'd be interested in seeing one of your GPXs, if you're inclined to post it.  

[Charles Buono]

I'd be happy to share, but I don't know how....

[Robert Grant]

What I discovered a few months ago is that a GPX track created with the Osmand app itself will provide turns with street names! That's a very cool feature. LMK if you need details.

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[Bart Eisenberg]

Right: GPXs created in OsmAnd provide proper turn-by-turn navigation in OsmAnd. The function is part of the route details screen, as shown here: https://youtu.be/o84C0z3Kydc?t=563 

But other than using BRouter (which I've not yet tried), I haven't heard of an externally-created GPX that can do the same.  The question keeps coming up because people like to plan routes on a screen larger than a phone.  

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[Robert Grant]

@Bart, the amazing OSMAND how-to you've created is really underappreciated.  The detailed knowledge and great use of graphics with voice over amaze me.  You should have many more views and subscribers for such an excellent tutorial.  I agree that planning a route on the phone pales in comparison to the ease and accuracy of other programs that create GPX tracks.  However, these lack the street name provision that many users desire.  To plan a route on OSMAND using a mouse, I use the ApowerMirror android app to mirror phone to computer.  It's a nice trick that makes tracks with street names easier to create.

Robert Grant

[Charles Buono]

OK. Thanks. I looked at BRouter earlier and p[layed with it for a while but not enough to feel comfortable. It is set up for bicycle riding,,,

[Bart Eisenberg]

@Robert.  Thanks!  Learning to make the videos was its own education.

@Charles  Thanks for sharing the GPX.  I'll take a look.  

[Bart Eisenberg]

@Charles.  Try this with the GPX you posted: 

Create a route within OsmAnd that goes from your starting point to your destination. (Give it some time to calculate.) When I tried it, the OsmAnd-calculated route appears to follow your GPX exactly, or at least close.  

Press the directions button and then the middle of the Distance/Time field

From there, you should see directions.  I think those are the directions you'd hear when you actually do the route.  How do they look vis-a-vis your original question?  

When I tried to navigate your GPX directly, I got the expected generic directions: e.g. "Turn slightly right and go." "Turn left and go".  

RE: BRouter.  I thought the Web version has an auto mode--but again, I've not done much with it.  

On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 8:56:38 AM UTC-8, Charles Buono wrote:

[Charles Buono]

@Bart Thanks. The example I shared was the "optimum" route generated by Google Maps so it pretty much conforms with the OsmAnd generated route. The maps I create are extremely customized, i.e. Route 66 (1926), Lincoln Highway, etc. These maps all demonstrate "voice" capability but it doesn't always catch every turn. I haven't been able to figure out what tells OsmAnd when to speak. I think the issue is related to editing (non-software generated) changes. Just scratching my head...

[Osmandtrier]

It could be, that is not a problem of ossmand. It ccould be a problem of your track. If Osmand add voice hints to a gpx-track, Osmand do not refer to the streets. It only refer to the change of the angle of the track. For example. The blacklines are the streets, the red line is the gpx track. There is no change of the angle, so there is no voicehint.

[Charles Buono]

@Osmandtrier I agree that it isn't an OsmAnd problem. It is my ignorance of how OsmAnd generates voice commands. It's been awhile, but as I recall, most missed turns occurred when the roadway forked, like at a freeway interchange. I couldn't see far enough ahead on the screen to figure out where the route was going and had to decide whether to go left, right or straight ahead. I wonder if, at these type of junctures I place a way-point, OsmAnd might call out the path.

[Gavin Meredith]

Turn by turn instructions are not helped by the fact that Osmand disabled the off route alarm feature. If you miss a turn Osmand will never use the option of stopping and going back to get on route ( even using when using Osmands native navigation feature)
Instead the app calculates a new route / detour which can be miles in length. Doesn't make sense.
This is a major inconvenience when cycling in rural areas or if you have time constraints.
Unlike other navigation apps Osmand seems to have an aversion to an off route alarm. A right pain.

[Bart Eisenberg]

This might be a workaround (but not the equivalent) for the lack of a route alarm:

Create a route in OsmAnd.  

Save it to a GPX.

Start navigation using the GPX

In directions/settings, make sure "Pass along entire track" is unchecked

If you leave the route as dictated by the GPX, I think this will lead you back to it.  (But no alarm sounds)