Off-road navigation without "snap to road/track"

[M. Lunde]

We had a nasty experience the other day as we followed - we thought at least - a circular route, but ended several miles away from where we expected. All this is due to that Osmand - also when walking in terrain - seemingly all the time tries to guide you to the next point in the gpx-track by following any tracks on the map. I would really like to turn off this functionality so that I just see my position (blue triangle) and the gpx-track itself.

After our bad experience I have experimented with changing some settings, but the problem still exist. What I have done is:

1) Under navigation service chosen "Straight line" rather than "Osmand"

2) Under "fix to road" (maybe not the precise text in english) changed this to "off".

This has as far as I can not changed a thing.

I would like to keep the pacman system where points er being eaten whenever you pass them, but if this is not possible just something that does not give this possible erroneous information.

Just for info, what went severely wrong in our case was that we followed a 10 mile circular route A, but seemingly a nearby circular route B was - for reasons I do not understand - active at the same time. Someway along route A Osmand must have chosen to go for a point in Route B. I thought that such a situation would have resulted in a long straight line in the display, but we were blindly guided the complete false direction following a track Osmand calculated for us by using the tracks in the area. This was a mountain area with almost no people, so we just with luck made it home to a small village half an hour before it went completely dark.

[Poutnik]

For offroad purposes it may be worthy to try LocusMap application and Guidance feature.
As the application is focused on outdoor usage.

Dne 26/03/2016 v 17:49 M. Lunde napsal(a):

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[Lennert Bakker]

I've followed gpx-tracks many times with Osmand and in my experience Osmand will always try to send you back to the track you've chosen. It is important to check which gpx-tracks are visible on the map and I recomend to show only the one you're going to follow.

There is a big difference between a route with viapoints and a track. Offroad you should use a track

[M. Lunde]

Thanks Poutnik. This was an excellent advise. Have just tried LocusMap in Guidance mode, and I have control of where I am going! Wonderful feeling - a shame that Osmand does not offer this. 

Den lørdag den 26. marts 2016 kl. 18.00.37 UTC+1 skrev Poutnik:

For offroad purposes it may be worthy to try LocusMap application and Guidance feature.
As the application is focused on outdoor usage.