Feature request - ‘favourites’ GPX file organised according to in-app folder

[James Ashton]

I’ve recently been using OSMAND as a replacement for my Garmin Montana - I work as a motorcycle tour guide, and must lead customers on pre-determined routes, stopping at ‘waypoints’ along the way. It’s a fantastic app, very powerful and SO much better to use than the Garmin. I do have a couple of feature requests however, which I think would make the app even better - I’ll post separately in order to best manage them.

It’s great that I can import waypoints from Basecamp, as well as add my own within the app (IE, on the road). It becomes very difficult to manage these waypoints however because they are all stored together in a file called ‘favourites.gpx’. OSMAND lets me organise waypoints into folders within the app, and it would be really helpful if these folders were accessible as seperate GPX files on the SD card. This way you could easily manage waypoints that have come from different sources so that when you import back into another program (like basecamp) you don’t need to filter for waypoints that you already have.

For example: I could have a favourites folder called ‘from Basecamp’, and then a folder called ‘New waypoints day 1’, ‘new waypoints day 2’, etc, and each of these has a corresponding GPX file on the SD card: ‘from Basecmap.gpx’, ‘New waypoints day 1.gpx’, ‘New waypoints day2.gpx’. I hope the idea is clear

As an addition to this, it would also be logical to have a parent folder within the OSMAND folder on the SD card. Exactly the same way that ‘tracks’ has a parent folder. And like tracks, if within this folder there are any gpx files containing valid waypoints then they be automatically accessible within the app without having to first import them (again, exactly the same as ‘tracks’)

This would all make the app even better than it already is. Please keep up the good work

[CP]

Op 03-06-18 om 22:36 schreef James Ashton:

It’s great that I can import waypoints from Basecamp, as well as add my own within the app (IE, on the road). It becomes very difficult to manage these waypoints however because they are all stored together in a file called ‘favourites.gpx’. OSMAND lets me organise waypoints into folders within the app, and it would be really helpful if these folders were accessible as seperate GPX files on the SD card. This way you could easily manage waypoints that have come from different sources so that when you import back into another program (like basecamp) you don’t need to filter for waypoints that you already have.

I have a similar need for a similar situation. But I'm taking a different approach. As I find managing waypoints on mobile device very  cumbersome I've completely stepped away for anything else then the trivial A-B route.
That's not different with OsmAnd. It doesn't work for my taste and see no business case.

I manage my routes exclusively using motoplaner.de (recently superseded by kurviger.de). You get all the bells and whistles from working with a large screen on your laptop. I export what I need as GPX and import into OsmAnd.

As for changing GPX parameters: I hardly see the need to edit the route while I'm actually driving it. I place a marker on the spot what needs improving. And then take it home for further processing.

-CP

[Majka]

On Sunday, 3 June 2018 22:36:26 UTC+2, James Ashton wrote:

 Exactly the same way that ‘tracks’ has a parent folder. 

This is my personal workaround but it would work for you as well:

You don't have to import the gpx. If you have gpx with POIs only (not defined as route, but a simple gpx with "list" of points), you can move it to the tracks folder / subfolder and then display of this "track" in Osmand. 

[David]

I use both favourites in categories, and gpx files with only waypoints.
They work and feel almost the same when used in osmand, you can even edit your own gpx files.
I think it would be great (and logical) to merge them both in one system.
Maybe with a special naming convention for in-osmand-generated favourites (favourite-friends.gpx favourite-swimmingholes.gpx)
For users who never look at the files nothing would change and for users who use favourites and waypoints a lot, life would improve.
David