Proposal: help bring the motorcycle style into official OsmAnd

[julcnx]

Hi Christophe,

Thank you for this style. Many riders use it, me included. I already sent two small PRs (#19 national park zones, #20 dirtbike:scale cleanup), and thanks for merging them.

I would like to help more, and I have two ideas. I wanted to ask you before I start.

1. Unpaved road rendering

Right now unpaved roads are drawn like tracks, so a gravel highway=primary or highway=secondary looks strange: you lose the road class. I am working on a general proposal for maps to show paved and unpaved on every road class (road class colour stays, plus an unpaved mark). I would like to bring this to the enduro style first, with screenshots before and after.

2. One motorcycle style in official OsmAnd

Today riders need to find this repo and install the .osf file. I think it would be great if one motorcycle style shipped with OsmAnd itself, so every user has it by default. To get there, I think we would need to:

• use English for the file names, rendering attributes and comments (OsmAnd can translate the labels shown to users)
• maybe merge the profiles (enduro, gros trail, petit trail) into one style with options
• follow the format OsmAnd uses for its built-in styles, and then send it to the OsmAnd team

Your name and work would of course stay credited.

Would you be happy for me to contribute toward this? I can do the work in small PRs so you can review each step. If you prefer to keep this repo as it is, that is fine too: just let me know, and I can work on it separately and credit your work.

Thanks,
Julien

[cricri-du-lauragais]

Hello, thank you for your interest in this project.

• My English is very poor, which doesn't make communication easy.
• The style and routing are already integrated by the Osmand team into a plugin included into version ~ on F-Droid.
• I think it’s a good idea to find a better way to represent major unpaved roads ;)
  But I think the most important thing is still how the routing system treats them.

Since I’m not a developer and don’t fully understand how Git works—other than uploading files from my computer—I think that if you have the skills, you should clone this project and modify it.
I’d be happy to help you, see it evolve, and of course use and promote it ;)

The code is full of “hacks” to work around the official style, and the documentation is very sparse, I'm not sure if the Osmand team is willing to put in the effort on this issue.

As for the routing, it's much “easy” and they could indeed be combined into a single file with an option, but I'm not sure what the “legal” implications are for a company when it comes to navigation information that could lead to potentially serious accidents.

[julcnx]

Bonjour Christophe,

Merci beaucoup pour ta réponse, et pas de souci pour l'anglais, on peut continuer en français.

D'accord, je ferai un fork et je travaillerai sur l'affichage des routes non goudronnées : garder la couleur de la classe de route, et ajouter un signe pour « non goudronné ». Ce ne sera pas tout de suite, j'ai d'abord d'autres travaux à finir, mais je te tiendrai au courant.

Tu as raison pour le routage, c'est le plus important pour la navigation. On pourra en parler à ce moment-là.

Tu peux me dire où trouver le plugin intégré par l'équipe OsmAnd (version F-Droid) ? Je veux partir de la bonne version.

Merci encore pour ton travail, tu seras bien sûr crédité.

Julien

[cricri-du-lauragais]

le plugin non officiel est ici
https://osmand.net/uploads/plugins/osmand.rendering.plugin/1/
il est mis à jour manuellement par un des dev qui est le mainteneur de la version F-droid
c'est juste mon .osf avec une page de présentation dans le sous menu Osmand.

pour les difficultés de communication je pensais aussi surtout vis à vis des dev Osmand

[cricri-du-lauragais]

tu peux contacter le dev sur telegram