Is there a way to pull a route from MyRoue App and share it as a navigable Google Map

[Mzokk]

richard i would think that if you had osm maps in garmin base camp and built a route using that i would imagine that would work with voice prompts as lt is the same map format

It should not matter as its a track not a route. The track has to be linked to the roads somehow to get turn by turn instructions. In OSMand I think that is why you can set a tolerance for road and track matching. It might be that navigating imported tracks is behind a paywall?

 

[Wapping]

It might be that navigating imported tracks is behind a paywall?

I can’t see any paywall in the ‘Organic Maps’ app. Equally, I can’t find any way to navigate a bespoke GPX ‘route’, loaded onto the app, other than by ‘follow the line’. Better than nothing though, not least as it’s free and therefore meets one of the OP’s mates’ criteria.

 

[Mzokk]

Yip just downloaded it. Looks like another good option for walking cycling though

 

[tjmouse]

Thanks for all the detailed responses, one of the many reasons to love this forum!

So TomTom does not work unfortunately, it will load the route but then if you deviate or if it finds a better route then it replans and drops any waypoints and just goes to the finish location.

Either people will have to subscribe to something (MRA Next, OSandM etc) or route planners can break the route down into a few Google links and plan in stops for people to load the next section.

 

[Wapping]

Time for your chums to dive into their bulging piggybanks or to get busy copying routes into the free Google Maps. The latter is not your job, hopefully.

 

[tjmouse]

Time for your chums to dive into their bulging piggybanks or to get busy copying routes into the free Google Maps. The latter is not your job, hopefully.

Indeed.

To be fair the guy organising the trip saw me use MRA and bought a lifetime gold subscription immediately but i expect others will be less willing.

 

[leedude03]

if you or one of your other bods who dont wish to pay anything, put the track of the route into organic maps you can then plot a route of that track in organic maps to follow it, should be very doable you have 100 points to use to follow said track, it may tale a little time getting it done, you would also need to download the maps for the area that this route covers, but again very doable, once the track is coppied as a route you would then have voice prompts due to the route being made inside the app.
of course this would depend on how bothered some one could be to do it.

ps could you possibly upload or share a link to this route so we could take a look.

i may even give it a go

 

[Wapping]

ps could you possibly upload or share a link to this route so we could take a look. i may even give it a go

Now there’s an offer not to be sniffed at, OP

 

[Wapping]

Lee’s idea does work, but it’s a tedious process tracing over the route.

I uploaded a ‘track’ of a ‘route’ and then downloaded its associated maps:



I then proceeded to trace over a section, to create (as Lee suggested should happen) a ‘route’:



I am using an iPad and learning on the job as it were, reordering the points in the list as I went along to force the route to follow the track. The problem, on first use, is that the app chooses how to go from point to point, meaning that you really do have to force it along. That said, there may be something in a settings menu (I haven’t looked) which resolves that problem.

Conclusions, from a brief trial run

1, Lee’s suggestion does work.

2. It’s clunky and time consuming. However, this might improve with familiarity and / or perhaps using it on a PC, though a big iPad is pretty powerful these days.

3. It’s a method that’s probably best on easy A to B routes. But, if so, you might as well go straight into Google Maps and create it there.

4. Would I spend time tracing over a complex track? No. I’d use BaseCamp or MyRoute, whose tracing abilities are much better….. or I’d get someone else to do it…. Or better still, I’d use BaseCamp or MyRoute’s ability to convert a ‘track’ into a ‘route’ at the touch of a button.

5. I think the basic problem is that the app is not really designed around ‘vehicle’ or for ‘on-the-highway’ use for GPS guided navigation of third party ‘routes’. In short, we are probably forcing the app to do something it’s not best suited to.

6. Point 5, might well explain why app developers charge a very modest fee to allow ‘navigation’. It probably takes some considerable developing and then support. MyRoute have years of experience of it through Tyre, but still went through a very big (it’s still going on) development of their very good ‘Navigation’ app. The people who could perhaps turn it on fastest is maybe Google, by allowing navigable routes to be transferred from Google My Maps into Google Maps. But, for whatever reason(s) they refuse and nobody seems able to hack it.

 

[Wapping]

For what it’s worth, here’s the KMZ file (downloaded from the Organic Maps app) for the ‘route’ I created by tracing:

Test – Google My Maps

Test only for UKGSer

www.google.com

And here it is as a GPX ‘track’ file in MyRoute:

If nothing else, it proves it works.

 

[leedude03]

thank you Richard i knew it would work having tried it last night, but good of you to put the proof up there for all to see, like i said it would be time consuming, i guess if someone was so reluctant to spend on an app that could do it for them, then this would be away to achieve it.
i still think mapping it out in google maps in parts and sharing the links would be better and possibly easier.

ps Richard, in the app there are a few settings you can alter that does make it a little easier, but after all it is free and as you have said does work.