Alarm while following a route

Hi,

Today I started to use OruxMaps with a long distance cylce tour of over 100km and I have to say OruxMaps is a great navigation assistance!
However, I created a route as gpx and kml file and imported it into OruxMaps and set it up to follow as route. OruxMap gives me an alarm if I leave the route, that's fine. I hoped it gives me also an alarm i.e. if the route has a change in the direction because the route is not always a straight line ;-)
My question now is, how can I setup OruxMaps that it gives me an alarm for example 100m before I have to turn right oder left? Otherwise I have to check it every few seconds manually with my eyes while driving and it can be very stressful in cities I don't know and it would be nice to get a short sound from OruxMaps that I have to look to the device because there is a change in the direction. Other apps do this, i.e. ViewRanger, Locus, run.gps etc. also with imported routes. To be honest, mainly I want to use OruxMaps because its fantastic and offers everything I need and want, but the alarm while following a route is very important to me.

Thanks in advance for any suggestion or help!

Kind regards
MrDroos

Ok, I have an idea to work around.
I load a created gpx-track as route in OruxMaps. With viewranger I am able to create the waypoints from this gpx-track automatically. These waypoints from viewranger I can extract to my SD card and then I import it in to OruxMaps. After this I go to the waypoint list, select all and show them on the map. Now I have the exact route which is followed and I get an alarm reaching any waypoint on the route. Not the finest solution but it works. What I am asking to me is, when I load a track as route, I can choose to follow and the route alarm. Also I can choose wpt-alarm. Why are then there no waypoints loaded with the gpx-file?

hello!

i did it in your way to follow a route, with the same problems.

now i tried another way. i only use waypoints for my route. (import from gpx). then i use the waypoint alert as an approximation alert. when the alert comes, i know its time to turn. works very well for me.

Thomas

Hello from a newbie to oruxmaps.
First : I love orux and use it for my bike tours. It's a really great program and i supported it with a donation and hope, that everybody does that, who uses it.

In the past i used MagicMaps2Go with my W6.5 phone. Was not bad but orux is better

But my old program had this ´turn alarm´ we miss in orux like the first poster of this thread.

Now my question and idea to the orux programmer :
Is'nt it possible to add a new alert parameter : ´Alert xxx metres before the track turns for more than yyy degrees´
So i can let me warn, when i have to do for example a right turn with 90 degrees in 100m on my track.

What do you think about that ?

Thank you !

Hey folks,

I had a similar idea and called it cheeky "Maybe Egg of Columbus" .

Its here in the IMPROVEMENTS section.

By reason that it is an improvment and programming is needed we might discuss this in that section?


Best,

TopBiker

Can you explain me how I import a .gpx track, navigate with it (GPS wise) using an Offline-map which I have already installated under Mapfiles.

Thanks a lot.