Option to use openstreetmap in the future?

Chera Bekker

Hello MRA team,
I noticed a topic from about two years ago about the use of openstreetmap in the navigation app. It was at that time not possible nor planned. Is this still the case for Navigation Next?

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Corjan Meijerink

@Chera-Bekker Correct. The OSM map will not be usable in the Navigation module. Within the Mobile app itself, you can use this map!

As soon as you start turn-by-turn navigation, the HERE map will be used automatically

Chera Bekker

@Corjan-Meijerink just for my curiosity, why did you choose the HERE maps for navigation and not OSM?

Corjan Meijerink

@Chera-Bekker Because OSM does not have the technical support (SDK) for our chosen development stack (Flutter)

Dave J 0

@Corjan-Meijerink Understand this but will we have an option for different colour layouts etc as the current HERE version is not good in daylight (my perspective) as I would like more contrast in colours like the OSM versions of the map layers?

Corjan Meijerink

@Dave-J-0 Yes, definitely! More styles will be added later. Starting off with a dark mode map

Dave J 0

@Corjan-Meijerink Brilliant. Looking forward to this.

Florens

@Corjan-Meijerink will there be another way to navigate the openstreet map route? I think that the best "kronkel routes" are made on openstreet, but we lose the route when I turn on navigation. Also it doesn't give the same route if I make more navigation points in another map.

Maybe there is a way to export the openroutefile to a mra-navigation supported file?

For me the "kronkelroutes" was the reason to become a gold member.

Corjan Meijerink

@Florens That will eventually also work in Next! The development is scheduled for much later in the year.

You can convert an OSM generated curvy route-track to a route (with waypoints). This can be navigated with the app But yes...this is way to cumbersome

Chera Bekker

@Corjan-Meijerink The OSM has also the option to use route segments with different routing options per segment. How will HERE deal with those segmented routes? Do we need to add a lot of waypoints to make sure that HERE will not be able to deviate?

Corjan Meijerink

@Chera-Bekker We aim to make HERE routes fully compatible with segments such as in OSM

Please do note that this is scheduled way in the future.