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Thanks for the quick response. That explains my issues partly.

And I might add that restarting oruxmaps changes much: Now the waypoints are centered correctly. And the height gain/loss have different, more correct values. Probabely now oruxmaps uses different height data sources?

And I had a misunderstandig: of course the height loss ist NOT zero, but instead should be the same as the height gain (for a roundtrip).

Regards, Michael

I've created a route with brouter using the recent oruxmaps  10.6.1 GP.

One can display route statistics - but I do not understand the meaning of height gain resp. loss. My route is a roundtrip, i.e. it starts and ends at the same location. Thus I'd expect to get a height loss of 0m - but oruxmaps reports 189m. Similar I mistrust the height gain - oruxmaps reports 164m, but qmapshacks calculates 380m.

Similar spurious: When I delete a waypoint during creation of my route the calculated max. height is at a wrong location/height.

Maybe also related: The tip of the waypoint icons do not end at the route but their circles seem to be centered at the route. But the automaticaly created km waypoints are rendered correct - i.e. their tips end at the route.

Please find enclosed my route as a sample.

Regards, Michael

Just today I got oruxmaps 10.1.9 GP, and now turning instructions are included. I. e. this bug has been fixed.

Thanks, Michael

I do use offline brouter to create nice tracks, works great. Sometimes if there is no path (e. g. along the beach) one can use straight lines as a replacement, again great! But those straight line parts sadly are not counted for as part of the whole distance. Partly it works, the km distances along straight parts are counted correctly with km marks, but not within the track statistics.

To reproduce: Simply draw a straight line between two points using brouter offline of some km distance. You'll get marks for each single km, but track statistics reports a total of 0km.

Fix would be nice, but I admit that my problem really is a minor one.


Regards, Michael

I had a similar problem just today. I could solve it by reloading the DEM data from within oruxmaps, i. e. engage 3D view, get the download message, reload, and then try 3d once again. But I have to admit, I, too, did update the mapfile itself.

My guess: oruxmaps does a kind of processing of the downloaded DEM files before it can work with them. Maybe, sometimes this preprocessing is fails?

Regards, Michael

I might have discovered the root cause of my problem: I often use earplugs to listen to some internet radio stations. Of course when I want to follow a route with oruxmaps the earplugs are unplugged (even with a reboot of Android). But oruxmaps seems not to be able to engage the loudspeakers. If I now first start audials (my internet radio app) my favourite radio station appears on loudspeakers. Now I close audials and start oruxmaps. And voice navigation always works as expected.

Hope that will be a stable workaround.

Regards, Michael

2022-09-07: It is even crucial to use the "proper" app to enable sound for oruxmaps. Starting audials, closing audials = no sound. If audials stays alive (but paused) = sound. Using neutron instead = no sound. Using PA tone, closing PA tone = sound. Thus my workaround will be to go with PA tone. Maybe also important: the action sequence within oruxmaps - start gps logging - create route using brouter - follow route. Odten logging is active when I start to create the brouter route to be followed.

That's difficult to report since I'm using the German interface. Roughly all items are ticked within sound menu with the exception of reporting the detailed waypoint description.

But as I wrote I do assume that all my settings are fine,  because the voice navigation sometimes WORKS as expected without changing any setting. I've tried it this morning successfully within my garden:-). I could even proof right now that voice navigation works if WLAN is switched off:-(

Thus there must be something else wrong... And, as I wrote previously, if it is not working it fails continuously independent from restart/reboot. Maybe an existing GPS fix is blocking the voice? What else might "survive" a reboot?


Regards, Michael

Sorry to come back to my issue, but I again encounter this problem regularly. I. e.  oruxmaps is completely silent, no voice. If I start from a fresh android boot the voice seems to work fine. Thus there seem to be no access rights problem nor a configuration issue wirhin oruxmaps. I'm using the most recent GP version (9.0.4 GP) on Huawei mate 9.

If the voice if missing the major difference to the working conditions are:
- no Internet access (of course no WLAN outdoors),
- track logging (and thus GPS) within oruxmaps activated,
- route created successfully using brouter offline during my hike.
And if the voice is missing, I'm unable to activate it. I've tried to stop/restart oruxmaps, I've even rebooted android. If silent it stays silent whatever I've tried.

Does voice navigation rely on Internet access? That would be really bad for outdoor use.


Regards, Michael

Great!! Thanks a lot for this hint.

Regards, Michael

Yesterday I've checked voice navigation once more using the current version 9.0 GP. And it worked flawlessly. But besides the different version I did change two settings:

Oruxmaps 9.0 did give a hint to configure power management - thus I've discovered an additional Android configuration item to disable power management for oruxmap, now engaged. And I have engaged the option within oruxmaps to add navigation information within the starting point.

Can't tell why voice navigation now is working, but of course I'm glad that the sound now works!

Regards, Michael

Often one can download gpx tracks for some nice hiking tours. I'd like to use oruxmaps to follow such gpx tracks. That is working fine, but such gpx tracks do not include turning points. Brouter of course can create tracks including turning points.

Is it possible from within oruxmaps to augment a gpx track with turning points from brouter standalone?

I know one solution - use brouter-web on the internet and export oruxmap-ready routes. But I'd like a standalone solution without internet use. And from technical perspective brouter + oruxmap should be able to solve that problem.

Regards, Michael

Yes. The route is created by oruxmaps itself based upon OpenAndroMaps. During my hike I've decided to use a spontaneous created new route/track to go back to my starting point. The turning points are included and visible after I've selected to follow the new route. But instead of voice navigation I got only one or two buzzer sounds.

When I tried exactly the same on another hike with the same software (oruxmaps & brouter & OpenAndroMaps) it worked fine, i.e. I got voice sound.

It worked fine with some older version of oruxmaps (sorry, don't know the version).

But before the first faiure I had trouble with a new google security feature - google disables all access rights for "unused" apps automatically, and brouter had lost all its access rights. I've manually re-activated the missing rights. Hope that google security will automatically learn, not to discard rights again.


Regards, Michael

As the topic already says: sometimes when I start voice navigation during a hike, the navigation is started, but there is no voice output. This problem does not occur everytime, but quite often.

Here is my usecase: Start hiking and logging. Works fine. After around 12km I decide to follow a newly created route starting at the current position going back to my starting point. Route creation works fine, following route, too. But instead of getting voice hints there are two short buzzer sounds. Following the route works fine, only the voice output is missing.

It's not a problem of my Android device - sometimes voice navigation works fine including sound.

If voice navigation is failing I could not get it to work again: I tried to stop logging, restarted oruxmap, re-created my route, even rebooted the Android smart phone. The navigation voice always keeps to be silent. I guess that the problem may be triggered if I start voice navigation AND the phone has already a GPS fix. Even after my reboot the GPS fix was instantaneous available before starting oruxmaps.

I'm using the current version oruxmaps v.8.5.5 GP under Android 9.1 on a Huawei Mate 9. I use the openstreet maps from OpenAndroMaps.

Hope there is a workaround - or sometimes a fix for that annoying issue,

Michael

Nobody? I really wonder why the positions of galileo satellites are visualized by orux, but not used?!?

Of course I know that position calculation is done by Android, but the individual location of galuleo satellites are nevertheless know?


Regards, Michael

Hello!

I'm using the Huawei Mate 9 smartphone to run the most recent oruxmaps GP. The Huawei initially supported Galileo location provider, but as far as I know sadly this has been disabled with some firmware update. To my surprise from within oruxmaps/tripcomputer/satellites your app still displays "unconnected" Galileo satellites. But it never uses them.Otherwise the app GPS test never shows Galileo satellites.

Thus my question: Is it possible to enhance oruxmaps to really use Galileo for navigation despite being disabled from Android/Huawei? Maybe you could even provide a possibility to select the satillite network to be used?


Regards, Michael