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I use Osmand a lot. It work well, but I dearly wish they'd improve some UX issues.

I always seem to have the map telling me how far it is to some temporary marker I placed months ago that I can't easily work out how to remove.

Also any time I do navigation, the Trip Recording plugin pops up as a sticky system notification even when I haven't enabled trip recording.

But the offline navigation is a killer feature, and following custom GPX's.

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> I always seem to have the map telling me how far it is to some temporary marker I placed months ago that I can't easily work out how to remove.

You can either tap the marker and tick it off, or use Menu -> Map markers if you can't find it. You can also use Menu -> Configure map and turn off Map markers completely.

> Also any time I do navigation, the Trip Recording plugin pops up as a sticky system notification even when I haven't enabled trip recording.

Hmm, it does pop up every time for me but dismissing it works.

Yeah figured out the map marker thing now. Ticking it off didn't really help because it then just switched to the next one.

Just one of those things where the default behaviour isn't great and relies on the user to reconfigure.

Well, the behaviour is great if you're using markers only as short-term working "notes" and always ticking them off when you're done (use favourites for places you want to save longer-term). But yeah the marker feature doesn't explain how it wants you to use it.

I use the markers to loosely transcribe walking routes from books or the web then tick them off during my walk. I was always curious if this is what they're actually designed for, though.

I most commonly use them for marking the location of my car or campsite when going bushwalking and wanting to be certain I can find them again. Also sometimes for marking annotations I want to add to OpenStreetMap later...

I use them for Audax checkpoints, but given how they work and their iconography I suspect they're primarily for orienteering.

You can disable the notification. Took me a while to find this as well.

Menu > Plugins > Trip Recording > Settings > Notification (Second to last option)

Thank you!

did they implement A* for offline pathing? i remember they were thinking on it and what was in place was oom on my phone

I don't know what algorithm is used. Mostly I'm using it in pretty simple situations like working out the distance to the next campsite along a hiking trail.

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