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Highlight / Navigate offical routes without GPX etc.

Sebastian shared this question ago

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Hi there,

Is it somehow possible to highlight specific official routes that are part of the currently shown map/overlay in locus or even navigate them?

There are so many overlays or maps that include perfectly marked official routes and osm understands these routes. An good example may be opencyclo.l + eurovelo routes.

Also there are Desktop based maps which can show you all routes that are part of your current map view and let you chose and highlight one,sometimes even with wiki link, elevation profile, etc.

https://cycling.waymarkedtrails.org/#?map=8!51.5983!13.1524

That would be quite a nice function for locus, especially if you could just chose a route from the map and activate the guidance function. But just highlighting the route for "quick-on-demand-check-if-I-am-still-on-track" would be sufficient as a start.

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0709 ●

I suppose highlight by using the correct cycle theme you like ? (Vector maps)

Guidance navigate ?

If you download a track or route, you see it cannot be used as a route to follow, except for purely visual guiding.

These are all just pieces that come from OSM in random order. In a download see many randomly in length and order criss-cross running track segments even in opposite directions ,

Can be used as a background template to quickly create a new design, in the direction you want.

See similar item

https://www.plotaroute.com/posts/2654/D/1

https://forums.garmin.com/de/plauderecke/f/forum/221107/track-heisst-nur-track-im-garmin/1050189#1050189

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Sebastian ●

Well, not exactly theming it, but possibly that is the OSM /locus function that must be used - but I don't know how. Yes visual guiding would be fine, but right now lots of the official routes have the same color scheme, just differentiated with different shortcuts (like EV7). What I d like would be to select a certain vector route and have it highlighted in a way that I can see the whole route as created by whomever. I don't want to redraw it, because the data is already there.

Referring to my waymarkedtrail link from above I made Screenshots what is possible with that small desktop OSM theme. 1st normal view, 2nd list view of all cycle routes that are part of the current view 3rd one specific route selected and highlighted (there is even a gpx /kml export option, and a link to OSM, who created it, how long, etc - so all the data is there, even for routing or guidance) - that would be the workflow for Locus I am searching for.

(well I guess the Screenshots are randomly ordered here, but I think it's clear what I am referring to)

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Henk van der Spek ●

So, you were one click away from happiness. Just hit the gpx download and it will be imported in Locus straight away and ready to follow with "guidance" or "navigation"in Locus.

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0709 ●

Correct.

Downloaded and than visually shown in Locus by all downloads are ok. (usable)

Navigation:

Some seems to be more ok than others.

EV7 seems to be reasonably fine.

But I did not 100% check these long + 100 km's route for real Locus navigation !

Some are not.

For example the Ochsenweg EV3 Westlich. By the fragmented tracksegments as shown in the links.

I do not test ALL routes ;-)

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Sebastian ●

Well, that's why I am asking - it would be much less hassle (going to a third party website, scroll through the routes, check all routes, download a gpx, import it, don't like it, go back to the website, etc.) and a pretty cool feature if integrated in locus. The same 'd apply to hiking routes...

It would also not collide with the selling points of lomaps if I am correct. Make that feature payable if necessary.

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Sebastian ●

(of course navigation straight from these vector to gpx to navigation conversion may be spotty - getting this conversion working properly would be AAA+, but that's already not working spot on for downloaded gpx from komoot for example and I understand why it is that way...but even basic guidance should work with the converted routes or at least just the possibility to show the route highlighted in a different color scheme than routes of the same rank - even for redrawing it, it'd be useful)

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Menion ●

Hello Sebastian, others,

this is a really interesting idea, but can someone tell me, how to technically do it in the app? :). Currently used vector maps do not offer such a feature.

A few months ago, we've added support for the Rother routes downloaded directly from Locus Store. User-based routes are planned and we should start work on it really soon. So I believe, that a lot easier will be to prepare & share base cycle routes directly over Locus Map once this feature will be ready.

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