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Manually drawing a route for navigation

Gene Imes shared this problem 13 years ago
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In the US. Navigate from Milport Alabama to Columbus Mississippi along highway 96(in Alabama) and highway 50 in Mississippi. Drawing a route with `Add new route & measure` the route will not go directly along highway 96/50 but will go around another circuitous route. This is a problem.

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I think Locus can`t do much for you as the navigation routes are calculated by internet services as described here:


http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php/manu...


Did you try the other offered sources? My personal experience is that Mapquest is the best on for car navigation.

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I have tried both.


Don`t know about cloudmade but with MapQuest in its own app or on its web page it will calculate directly on highway 96/50. I do not know what the problem is. Perhaps it is how Locus requests routing (merely speculation on my part).


There is a work around. The problem is that the routing will not crose state lines or county lines (in other places I have found). Draw up to the lines then turn off navigation. Draw the next point just over the line and then turn navigation again (slow and tedious).


I would like to find a fix. I ride a motorcycle and like to ride on secondary roads. Maybe the problem just shows in Mississippi because going into Mississippi and around the state are the only places I have noticed this behavior.


Thanks,


Gene

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Gene, may you please write me start and target point coordinates, so I can test it on my device also? As tommi wrote, I cannot directly fix something in online services that compute routable track. Anyway I can at least check, if locus correctly handle incomming path and also check why MapQuest web side return different result then in Locus.

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1 N 33deg 33` 37.370"


W 88deg 04` 57.475"


2 N 33deg 31` 8.616"


W 88deg 21` 40.720"

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Any progress on this?

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Menion is still on holidays, so no progress.

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I do not know if problem is still there, but in case it is, then as @tommi wrote, I can't do much about it. So it's required to fix problem in OSM data itself, or contact map provider

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