craig
Supporting Sponsor, Overland Certified OC0018
I think you are asking about automatic offroad route calculation.
There isn't an auto-routing feature. In my experience with street network software this just doesn't work well offroad. Gates are locked, the street network data available doesn't distinguish between a 4x4 trail, a twin track, or a fully engineered USFS gravel road... yet alone the difference between easy, intermediate, and hard 4x4 trails (if it has the trails at all). Gates are locked, roads get washed out, and most people want to plan a route that involves seeing particular scenery.
We will be adding a "Go to point" type of feature where an as the crow flies arrow is always shown between your current location and a specific lat/lon destination. We have been partnering with participants in the Nevada Trophy, Northwest Challenge, and other offroad geocaching type events to identify the best approach to supporting this. I have an alpha version now that works great for the competitions, but isn't something I'd consider to be ready to be incorporated as an officially supported feature.
Back to your original use-case. What you can do is to use any software you want to create a GPX track. For example, on ling trips I use Google Earth at home to calculate a route to the 4x4 trailhead. Save it as a KML file and use GPS Babel to convert it to a GPX track that I save in the Overland Navigator tracks directory. I've also used Garmin Mapsource to create a GPX track with a mouse along the route I want to follow, and saved that into the Overland Navigator tracks directory. Heads up GPX waypoint and track creation is a feature that I consider to be at the very top of the todo list on the software side... Looking forward to getting these map-packs done so I can focus my attention back on adding features.
Craig
There isn't an auto-routing feature. In my experience with street network software this just doesn't work well offroad. Gates are locked, the street network data available doesn't distinguish between a 4x4 trail, a twin track, or a fully engineered USFS gravel road... yet alone the difference between easy, intermediate, and hard 4x4 trails (if it has the trails at all). Gates are locked, roads get washed out, and most people want to plan a route that involves seeing particular scenery.
We will be adding a "Go to point" type of feature where an as the crow flies arrow is always shown between your current location and a specific lat/lon destination. We have been partnering with participants in the Nevada Trophy, Northwest Challenge, and other offroad geocaching type events to identify the best approach to supporting this. I have an alpha version now that works great for the competitions, but isn't something I'd consider to be ready to be incorporated as an officially supported feature.
Back to your original use-case. What you can do is to use any software you want to create a GPX track. For example, on ling trips I use Google Earth at home to calculate a route to the 4x4 trailhead. Save it as a KML file and use GPS Babel to convert it to a GPX track that I save in the Overland Navigator tracks directory. I've also used Garmin Mapsource to create a GPX track with a mouse along the route I want to follow, and saved that into the Overland Navigator tracks directory. Heads up GPX waypoint and track creation is a feature that I consider to be at the very top of the todo list on the software side... Looking forward to getting these map-packs done so I can focus my attention back on adding features.
Craig
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