Navigating a track
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I am going next week to countries where the Here map does not work properly a.o. Iran. I also want to drive some dirt roads in Armenia.
It is clear that Here does not have good maps for Iran. I have planned the route with the OSM maps and OSM route calculations. Now I don't feel like using an other navigation app. I am used to the MRA app. My idea was to write out the route as a GPX 1.2 file and then start driving the track in the MRA app. Now I drove a GPX track with the MRA app last week, but really got the impression that the app doesn't follow the track, but rather keeps the roads (from the Here map) as close to the track as possible. So that's not going to work for me in Iran and offroad in other countries aswell. Am I doing something wrong, does a setting need to be changed? How do I make the MRA navigation app really follow the track and not nearby roads. -
@C-A-Kielen may other high professionals will have better explanation. But let me try for an answer:
At first: if you have planned a route at MRA-Rputeplanner, it's not necessary to export it as gpx file - and import it in MyRoute-App afterwards for navigation. In MyRoute-App, you can switch on auto sync of all. Then routes and tracks are on both, simultaneously!
At second: if you open a synced route (or open an imported gpx file) you can select in MyRoute-App, to navigate this route as a track.
BUT, to do the navigation, MyRoute-App is using always HERE map! Independent if you have planned this route in MRA-Routeplanner by another map. That's the issue you have seen.The point is: both - HERE map and MRA-Routplanner are not (yet) designed to operate offroad routes.
My suggestion: do it as it is usually of offroad riding; plan it by OpenStreetMap, and open it in MyRoute-App on the bike, only to view it (don't start navigation). Then follow the line and compare by yourself, if you are riding still the same path in reality, as the line on the screen determines.
