well I attempted to use locus with brouter today to go 14 miles in new york city but for some strange reason I could not get it in car mode even though it says car mode. Do you have to select car mode before you download the files in brouter android?....maybe I only downloaded the walking modes because it noted 14 hrs instead of 22 min? When changed to mapquest navigation it was correct in locus.
Time to relook at osmand. The possibility of changing the 2 items "pass along entire track" and "calculate osmand route for first and last route segment" as noted in this thread might make osmand behave on this gps track so I reloaded osmand. I must say osmand appears much simpler and more elegant and better maps than locus but I believe locus to be more powerful. So correct me if I'm wrong but osmand has navigation built in to the offline vector maps but possibly not as powerful "hinting" for offroad/remote riding and if voice prompts and turn distance and direction are more important then maybe adding brouter to osmand might be the best combination for me since I'm not a power user. Based on your last post (Poutnik) road awareness in routing provided by brouter technically must be better....so I guess that must mean better hinting and visual cues. Unfortunately the track I had a problem with is 100 miles away but I would love to make a test trying it again but will not have the chance for a while. On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 4:04:32 PM UTC-5, Poutnik wrote: > > But of deriving of directions from the shape of a track have a disadvantage > it is not aware of underlating road network. If there is a 10 long winding > road, > you can get dozens of direction hints without passing any > crossroad/junction. > > If GPX track is generated by direction aware routing service > ( like BRouter Android app , BRouer-web or online MapQuest(in Locus), > directions stored in GPX ( or in internal track from MQ saved by Locus ) > are aware of road network. > > Therefore you get directions only in places of course choices, > and not even at every place. E.g. If you go along tertiary road, > turning right, you will not get hint to turn right, if straight ahead is a > residental road. > Unless you are to follow that residental one. In such a case you got a hint > to go straight ahead. > > Sure, this does not apply in off-road scenario across free terrain, > without suitable OSM ways. > > Dne 29/11/2016 v 20:47 Lennert Bakker napsal(a): > > I ride offroad, the remote bit is irrelevant, with Osmand. I load tracks > and the directions are not pulled from the map but from the gpx-track. You > can ride a track in Osmand without a map and it makes no difference, you > get the same directions!!!!! > > A GPX-track is just a breadcrumb trail of coordinates and a direction, > your nav app (doesn't matter which one) draws a line in between the points. > Your nav app sees changes in direction between on point and the other and > shows and or tells the change via voice or icons. It has nothing to do with > the map, that's why you use a track in stead of a route while travelling > offroad because the map doesn't have a road on that section. > > I do not use voice guidance, not even in my car, I read the map. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Osmand" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Poutnik ( The Wanderer ) > > My Brouter profiles https://github.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles/wiki > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
