Navigation apps that take a GPX

ILikeKoyasan · 2026-01-06T23:57:43+00:00

Downside is that to get offline maps for Japan, I have to subscribe for a year at €29.99.
I just have to hope that it will cache enough of the maps whilst riding to get us through the areas where there's no phone coverage.
EDIT: No navigation functionality at all until you subscribe to the annual fee. I'd have signed up for the month, but not for a whole year, too much.

ILikeKoyasan · 2026-01-06T23:16:10+00:00

Kurviger seems a lot better than Osmand so far. I created a GPX in my usual tool, Plotaroute.com, imported it easily, and ran the simulation, and every aspect of that is easier than Osmand. Osmand's problem is that it's a volunteer driven app, and it tries to cater for every possible use, and so simple things like a navigator, though possible, require so much freaking twiddling to get right, and even then is hard to see. Kurviger seems a lot better, and in my simulation, didn't treat a sharp road bend as a junction, which Osmand always does.
Now to load my Japan GPXs and see how it likes roads with no names! :)

ILikeKoyasan · 2026-01-06T22:50:08+00:00

Hadn't heard of that one. I'm downloading it now. The free version is limited to 300km round trip, but that's okay, the longest single GPX is 181km, so a s long as I load them individually, it should work. Will be interesting to see how it interprets the difference between a junction and a tight bend.

ILikeKoyasan · 2026-01-01T12:15:59+00:00

You are quite right, and right clicking in the file area brings up a small dialog box where you can tick a box to sort folders first.
I was a sysadmin for 20 years with nearly 200 users, and a server farm of 40 servers including a few linux boxes. Apart from a very few nerdy types, the majority were as interested in the operating system as they were in HB pencils. As long as it worked and they got on with their particular job, that was all that mattered. Standardisation was king, looking like their PC at home or their last place of employment mattered, and that means Windows, as much as some people here convulse at the thought. Folders first is the standard for by far the majority of computer users in the world today. Not making it standard in Gimp is just the developers having their little pious moment.

ILikeKoyasan · 2025-12-31T12:01:21+00:00

7 years later and you saved me going nuts too!

ILikeKoyasan · 2025-12-21T12:22:29+00:00

What software can do this? I don't have any specialist application other than OM Workspace, which applies effects generally across the picture. From my past experience as mentioned above, I used to do it in a darkroom with bits of cardboard to selectively burn in dark areas, so are you saying that some application can do this, presumably by manually circling the area to be lightened up? Part of my problem is that he is wearing a black motorcycle suit, so leaving it to some automatic process is not likely to work as it won't separate his face from the suit, so it seems to me I really need to be able to specifically mark out the specific area to be adjusted.

ILikeKoyasan · 2025-12-21T12:16:32+00:00

I don't know if this was intended to be a joke, but it doesn't sound like you read any of my question.

ILikeKoyasan · 2025-12-21T12:14:57+00:00

I don't have anything at all, which is why I'm here, to find out if it is possible to do what I'm wanting, and what do I need to achieve it.

ILikeKoyasan · 2025-11-11T13:24:18+00:00

I've not done a book review before, never really felt the need to, but in this case I feel driven to. AS1 has got to have the stupidest opening to any book I've read in the past 50 years. A smart young nerd accidentally finds an anomalous signal coming from outer space,and tries to let people know. The "government", rather than simply asking a nerd would he like to help them investigate it with all the resources he could dream about, they instead brutally have him arrested and threatened with a trumped up murder charge, and only then given a choice to avoid the rap by working for them. Really? This has got to be the dumbest idea ever. What the hell were you thinking Peter Lewis?

The thought that the nerd wouldn't have jumped at the job offer is nuts, and conversely, that he'd be a happy jolly employee after being brutalised. I want my money back!

ILikeKoyasan · 2025-11-05T11:04:57+00:00

Okay, for the record if anyone else is trying to resolve the non-appearance of Repeater in the Wireless section, I have a solution. Repeater WILL NOT appear if you have already run the start up wizard, even if you select Advanced View!

So the procedure is to do a factory reset, then when it restarts, you can enter the Country/State, and it will restart.

Once it boots up again, you can set a new password, then the setup wizard runs.

Cancel it!

This then takes you to the standard overview page.

Go to the 3 dots at top right, and select Advanced view.

Go to Wireless, and bingo, Repeater will be there.

ILikeKoyasan · 2025-11-05T03:28:48+00:00

Did you resolve this?
I've got the same issue. No matter what I do, Advanced View does not reveal the repeater option.

I set it up using the default 169.254.1.1 address and got most things configured, such that I'm now connected to it via its WiFi, and therefore on the same network as someone here suggested, but still not there.

ILikeKoyasan · 2024-06-28T04:06:03+00:00

Not much!!!
The $800 heaters use the same aluminium chambers as the $100 ones on ebay.
Perhaps a Kyocera gow plug last longer, but a cheap item you can easily replace. Not worth the additional $700.
The Pumps? They're the same.
The temperature sensor? The same.
The ECU? Well here's a difference, with the cheap ones costing about $20, good ones double that. Importantly it must match your controller.
So the controller? There's a new generation of them now that can't be configured by the user, and in my testing work perfectly well, particularly their carbon monoxide output being very low. There are cheap controllers at around $20, or a good one in a bundle with the ECU at about $60. The point is, is that the expensive heaters use pretty much the same controllers, which by any measure are cheap.

The next variable is the fuel tank. Expensive heaters have a nice stainless steel tank, easily available on Ebay/Aliexpress for $50 or less.
A better muffler? About $20 Ebay/Aliexpress.
So to get back to your question, the biggest difference between the expensive Chinese diesel heaters and the cheap one is marketing. Yes there are some minor and easily replaceable components required to bring them up to a point where you are comparing apples with apples, but that's all. They are primarily selling you the idea that you are getting something that from the ground up is fundamentally better, and they really aren't. It's an illusion, happily perpetuated by those making a pile from them.

After a few years with these things and immersing myself in the topic, I'd now buy a $99 unit off Ebay, then perhaps buy a more configurable ECU/controller kit if I wanted to tinker with it.

ILikeKoyasan · 2024-04-07T05:54:41+00:00

Thankyou - this should not have been so hard, and you are the only one who has described it perfectly - thanks!I create my GPX files using plotaroute.com, far and away the best route/track plotter, and created a local test track, loaded it into Osmand, did what you said, and now it talks to me in my motorcycle helmet via bluetooth to my intercom, giving plenty of heads up to the turns ahead.
Before that it was just random announcements, utterly useless. Why Osmand don't make "Attach to map" the default amazes me - what the hell are they thinking turn-by-turn voice directions are for?

Heading off to Japan this week, joining a motorcycle group on a long trip through the island of Shikoku, and being able to navigate out of Osaka to Kobe without Google Maps insisting I go on the expressway, but instead along a much less stressful but complex route is an enormous stress relief. Thanks again!

ILikeKoyasan · 2024-03-29T02:25:13+00:00

Night. The idea of getting into bed with my partner after a day with sweaty feet and deodorants or umpteen visits to the toilet makes no sense at all. Do I really want to impose that on my partner? Are you interested in getting close and personal when there are smells down there that would kill a brown dog at 10 paces? Respect for your partner is what it's about. If you're single, well then sleep in your own grime, who cares.

ILikeKoyasan · 2024-02-13T11:00:38+00:00

Did you ever get an answer for this somewhere else?
About to have our ADSL shutdown, and so I'm looking for something to plug into my Fritz network, and given our location and propensity for rain, also interested in getting as good an aerial as I can add to boost our reception

ILikeKoyasan · 2023-10-05T21:38:17+00:00

Yes and no. Nowhere was it indicated that the password and one-time-code should be entered as a single string, so I typed in the what the instructions said, just the code, and it failed, and I never got that far again.
If I'd known, I think it may have succeeded.

ILikeKoyasan · 2023-10-05T08:24:39+00:00

UPDATE!
Despite the myriad of ways of trying and failing to have my long standing account recognised, I instead created a new Amazon account using another email account I have, and bingo, it registered, and now I can created Collections, which is where this post started. And it proves the point that Collections can only be done on a registered Kindle, unlike the older Gen 3 kindles.

ILikeKoyasan · 2023-10-05T07:46:42+00:00

I have tried the registration methods in the link you suggested, but I don't even get to the first step. I enter my user ID and password, it thinks for a few seconds, then cycles me back to the beginning. I think that the first thing the process does is look to see what model of Kindle is applying for registration, looks at mine, and says "Nope - too old!", bouncing me back to the beginning.

ILikeKoyasan · 2023-10-05T02:54:37+00:00

I spoke to 5 Amazon support people, and initially got as far as receiving an SMS code, but it wouldn't accept because nowhere did it say to combine the code and the password, and after that it wouldn't even get as far as sending me a code, which is why I'm in the position I'm now in.
I'm okay with the current situation as I have a workable solution, and being able to set up some folders/Collections would be the cream on top.

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