Map on the Website

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Overview

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The osmand.net/map site is currently being developed and tested.
Therefore, the layout and operation of some functions on the site may be different from those described in this article.

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Authorization

Map Context Menu

For opening it right click anywhere on the map. This menu includes the following actions:

• Where am I – a quick search for your current location on the map.
• Open weather – opens the Weather menu.
• Create new route – opens the Plan a route tool with the selected location.
• Add Favorite – allow you mark and set a point of interest as a favorite for easy access.
• Directions from – sets the start of navigation from the selected point.
• Directions to – sets directions to the selected point.
• Cope coordinates – allows you to copy the coordinates for external use.
• Add pin – allows you to place a pin to mark a location on the map.
• Show regions – displays the regions associated with the selected point.

Weather

The Weather plugin is a paid feature of the OsmAnd app. For the web version, Weather is a free feature with such capabilities as:

• Enable weather layers on the map: Temperature, Pressure, Wind, Cloud cover and Precipitation using the menu on the left or right.
• Enable the display of the weather forecast for the day or week (the forecast step is 3 hours).

POIs on the Map

To show POIs on the map:

Configure map menu or 🔍 Search icon to open the search tab → choose categories. Read more about this feature on the "Search" section.

Tracks

It's a paid feature . At first you need to loggin your OsmAnd Pro:

For Track section:

• Show tracks from OsmAnd Cloud.
• Adding tracks on the map (Visible on map folder).
• Looking all tracks info and graph
• Modify tracks and add it to Cloud.
• Download and delete tracks.
• Create new folders or delete it.
• Download folders as OSF or OBF collection.

Visible on the Map

Here there is a list of visible tracks on the map.

Switch on/off tracks for showing or not its on the map.

Track folder menu

Click to the Tree points ⋮ button for open Track Folder menu. Here you can Download all tracks from chosen folder as:

• Download as OSF.

• Download as OBF Collection: You can get OBF map from this data: OBF file or Travel OBF.

  • OBF file:

  You can download offline map OBF (OsmAnd Binary Format) and open it with OsmAnd on device, it's suitable to display large quantity of tracks will be visible on the map.

  • Travel OBF:

  Also You can import map of tracks as Travel book which will allow you also to select a specific track on the map and use it as normal GPX. Travel book also supports features such as displaying tracks as points, filtering tracks by activity type and filtering waypoints.

• Rename chosen folder.

• Delete chosen folder.

Cloud Tracks

GPX tracks that you have in OsmAnd Cloud will be available for display and editing after login. Only for Pro users and for OsmAnd Start users (who can download their data even after their Pro subscription has expired).

The following features are available after choosin cloud track:

• Information screens:

  • Information - displaying track data.
  • Elevation - graph of elevation.
  • Speed - speed graph.
  • Slope - slope graph.
  • Settings - list of navigation profiles for the Create route tool.

• Action buttons:

  • Edit track - adding cloud track to local for editing (Edit locality button on the panel).
  • Download GPX - downloads the track to the PC.
  • Recalculate Elevation (Satellite) - displays the elevation graph of the selected track.
  • Delete Track - deletes the track.
  • Close track - close the track.

Favorites

After registering an OsmAnd Pro and for OsmAnd Start, the user's Favorites are displayed in the Favorites menu.
The following actions are available:

• Show on map - show favorites points from the chosen folder on the map.
• Rename - name and description of favorite folder.
• Download - download the chosen favorite folder.
• Delete - delete the chosen favorite folder.

Add / Edit Favorite

To add a new favorite point, right-click on the screen. To start editing, click on the favorite point, the edit menu screen looks the same as the menu in OsmAnd app.

URL Schemes

For easy use of the OsmAnd application you can take advantage of direct links. These are special URLs that allow you to transfer location and contain detailed data about pins and tracks.

These address strings can be copied and transferred using any data transfer medium supported by your device and used in the Android or iOS versions of OsmAnd.

1. URL with a pin on the map:

   https://osmand.net/map/?pin=52.491143,7.116394#9/52.3924/6.3116

   

2. URL without a pin on the map:

   https://osmand.net/map/#9/52.3924/6.3116

   

3. URL with navigation: osmand.net/map/navigate

   https://osmand.net/map/navigate/?start=52.236210,5.119629&finish=52.412472,4.855957&type=osmand&profile=car&pin=52.491143,7.116394#9/52.3873/5.2570

   

Depending on the specified parameters, URL strings may contain:

• latitude: latitude value as a number.
• longitude: longitude value as a number.
• start-finish: for navigation.
• profile: for navigation.
• zoom: zoom level.

4. Weather  –  osmand.net/map/weather

For example, you can directly access the Favorites page via:
https://osmand.net/map/weather/#9/52.2394/21.0362

5. Account  –  osmand.net/map/account

6. Configure Map  –  osmand.net/map/configure/

7. Tracks  –  osmand.net/map/mydata/tracks

8. Favorites  –  osmand.net/map/mydata/favorites

9. Settings  –  osmand.net/map/settings

10. Plan a Route  -  osmand.net/map/plan

11. For the current Explore page  -  osmand.net/map/search

This article was last updated in September 2024