i was on a trek last month and was following a trail from a gpx file. there was no other guide with us so i had to constantly keep the phone on, try to be on the dotted line and more often i would divert to one side and had going up, we diverted a lot, had to face trouble being rimrocked more than once.
one, i felt like a need for voice navigation on OSM for hiking, just a simple "you have diverted from track, move to right 10 meters to be back on track" followed by "you are on track".
then i felt like the app should have 3d elevation data WITH the gpx track so that i can look at the phone, see the contour and look up at the rock and cross reference. This is 100% what i wanted.
1. is this open source ?
2. can this be added to some hiking app or even to osmand?
3. i tried to add a gpx track and got "Track does not contain Timing data.". if the file does not have that data, why not ignore all that and just show the visualization?
No, it's not open source yet. I don't yet know where to go with this and if there's enough interest to continue development. I'm currently working on having accounts, so users can upload their tracks to their own profile. Also, integration with Garmin Connect is almost finished (so Garmin tracks will be automatically synced to your profile). Sign up to the newsletter if you want to keep in touch (or write me an email).
Regarding 3.: It only works for GPX files with timing data (i.e. from a n actual activity) in order to show speed etc. But this is the most requested feature so far, so I'll work on it...
i was on a trek last month and was following a trail from a gpx file. there was no other guide with us so i had to constantly keep the phone on, try to be on the dotted line and more often i would divert to one side and had going up, we diverted a lot, had to face trouble being rimrocked more than once.
one, i felt like a need for voice navigation on OSM for hiking, just a simple "you have diverted from track, move to right 10 meters to be back on track" followed by "you are on track".
then i felt like the app should have 3d elevation data WITH the gpx track so that i can look at the phone, see the contour and look up at the rock and cross reference. This is 100% what i wanted.
1. is this open source ? 2. can this be added to some hiking app or even to osmand? 3. i tried to add a gpx track and got "Track does not contain Timing data.". if the file does not have that data, why not ignore all that and just show the visualization?