I’m trying to fill in all the remaining unmapped roads in my local area (and minimising going over the roads already mapped) and using Google Maps to plan where to go is quite difficult. Yes, I can add waypoints between A and B, but it doesn’t permit more than 10 or so waypoints and the process is cumbersome.
Ideally, what I’m after is an app where I can somehow ‘draw’ the roads I want to drive and then save it as a path and then when I’m in the car, it’ll navigate the path from start to finish.
Does such an app exist?
Yes, it’s like the Travelling Salesman problem but I’m not aware any TS algorithm where you can feed in a map and it outputs the optimum route to take.
you can export the route as a track of GPX data, any good nav app should be able to import that track. But I never did that, I remember most of it, leftovers seen live on mobile wiht osmand/oruxmaps.
You can manually draw routes and then export as gpx files with JOSM. Nice because you can overlay Mapillary on top of imageries. JOSM is of course an OpenStreetMap editor, so make sure you don’t upload your drawing. As for the navigation app, I’d recommend OsmAnd.
In Google Maps website, selected Your Places, selected Maps and Create Map.
Then click Import under Untitled Map-Untitled Layer, and select the ML file then give it a name to the new map.
Finally, open Google Maps app on the mobile, selected Your Places, Maps and then select the map that was created in the previous step.
This way, I can now at least see a static route map that I’m going to drive on Google Maps app, and using my current position indicator (blue dot) on the map, I can at least drive the roads which needs mapping, albeit without voice navigation.
Can you provide more details on this step? A route could be relatively complex if you are trying to cover a bunch of unmapped roads scattered throughout an area.
I wonder if there is a way to programmatically determine if a way in openstreetmap has Mapillary coverage. As far as I know, they’re not linked, just overlaid.
Sorry,my bad. The plugin is indeed not available on iOS version of the app. Recommend using the other workflow to make a route on that website and then export to GPX.
Somewhere I read about a GitHub project that was for directing users to areas without images, but I can’t find it. I did find this forum post with lots of good ideas and website links. Page not found
