Opinions, please: should I suggest a "Highlight" menu option

[A Thompson]

In the "Configure map" menu are "Details" and "Hide". This is very good. But sometimes you want to clearly see a critical feature that might normally be  obscured. Just for my personal use, this led to me writing derivative renderers  for walking:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/osmand/WyGJS0Dekrk/trDnAl62AQAJ

and rail travel:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/osmand/bg5-git0O38/BkA_YlICCAAJ

The first one works by making some ways more prominent, the second by allowing you to  turn other stuff off.

Recently I wanted to clearly see UK county boundaries on the map (boundary=administrative, admin_level=6) and was tempted to write a renderer to do it.

But! Walking, rail, county boundaries... would it be good to suggest on github that there could be a menu option at the same level as "Details" and "Hide" called perhaps "Highlight", giving various options? It only needs changes to the rendering .xml's.

[Pertti Lehtinen]

Thankhou for the great options. 

Unfortunately expected menu options as introduced "In the "Configure map" menu are "Details" and "Hide" do not exist after. xml file copy to the "rendering" folder and closing OSMAND, rebooting and even restarting my phone. OSMAND updates are OK. 

Can you help me please what can be wrong?

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[Eugene zmeu]

You can make your render.xml file for your use case. Read more here https://osmand.net/help/docs/Custom_Rendering_How-To.htm

[danilo baggini]

The menu options in yours kml are very good.

I have noticed a small  bug:

a highway=track with 

access=yes

motor_vehicle=no

disappear when you select the option Hide restricted walks

but the walk is allowed, the restrictions are only for motors.. 

Danilo

[A Thompson]

Hi! I linked to two different renderers:

walking.render.xml doesn't place its extra options under "Details" or "Hide" but right at the bottom of the menu that contains "Details" and "Hide" under a heading of "Other map attributes"

rail.render.xml gives two extra options under "Hide"

For each, after placing the .render.xml into OsmAnd's rendering folder and doing a full restart, you need to select either "walking" or "rail" in Configure Map>Map style before the new options appear. If you select one of the normal renderers again, then the extra options disappear. 

I hope that helps! I'm glad you're interested.

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[A Thompson]

Thank you. Actually, since so few users will ever experiment with custom renderers, I was wondering if various highlighting options could be built in to the main app. But on reflection it would probably be messy and complicated, so you're right - custom renderers for those who have special requirements and the necessary know-how!

[A Thompson]

I'm very pleased that someone else has found walking.render.xml useful.

I've looked at a few ways that have the tags you describe (including other tags), but can't replicate the bug. Could you give me the location or OSM way number of an example?

Thanks!

On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 1:35:32 PM UTC+1, danilo baggini wrote:

The menu options in yours kml are very good.

I have noticed a small  bug:

a highway=track with 

access=yes

motor_vehicle=no

disappear when you select the option Hide restricted walks

but the walk is allowed, the restrictions are only for motors.. 

Danilo

Il Lun 27 Apr 2020, 05:00 A Thompson <thomp...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

In the "Configure map" menu are "Details" and "Hide". This is very good. But sometimes you want to clearly see a critical feature that might normally be  obscured. Just for my personal use, this led to me writing derivative renderers  for walking:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/osmand/WyGJS0Dekrk/trDnAl62AQAJ

and rail travel:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/osmand/bg5-git0O38/BkA_YlICCAAJ

The first one works by making some ways more prominent, the second by allowing you to  turn other stuff off.

Recently I wanted to clearly see UK county boundaries on the map (boundary=administrative, admin_level=6) and was tempted to write a renderer to do it.

But! Walking, rail, county boundaries... would it be good to suggest on github that there could be a menu option at the same level as "Details" and "Hide" called perhaps "Highlight", giving various options? It only needs changes to the rendering .xml's.

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[danilo baggini]

Excuse me for the delay..

I am not in condition to give you the way id of the bug but I can give the relation id where the way is inside:

relation id 7685374

ref P01b

from Verbania frazione Suna

to Chiesetta del Pellegrino

Best regards

Danilo

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[A Thompson]

Thanks, Danilo, I see your issue. But I think we just need to wait for the next OsmAnd map update. 

Looking, for example, at Way 76597840 which is a part of your relation displaying the undesirable behaviour, I see from https://osmlab.github.io/osm-deep-history/#/way/76597840 that between January 4th and April 8th, this was tagged with access=no. The current OsmAnd map for Italy Piemonte is dated April 1st, so this is the information being used, in which case my renderer is doing the right thing.

If the next map update doesn't fix it, then I'll need to look again!

Thanks for your input!

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