On 11/29/2016 10:58 PM, Mo Re wrote:
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.
You should know the BRouter does not provide estimated time of arrival
(ETA). Locus calculates ETA in such a case from the average speed in
last few minutes.
Personally, I often estimate ETA by launching Brouter directly
and determining the rough ETA from the total distance (TD) and the
filtered ascend (FA). E.g for a bicycle it may be like
ETA = current time + TD[km]/20[km/h] + FA[m]/400[m/h]
There are some ideas evaluated at the Locus forum,
like estimation of "nominal time profile of the track",
based on the elevation profile, and correnting of this nominal ETA
by deviations from it. but this is not going to be implemented in near
future.
what exactly do you mean you cannot get in a car mode ?
Profiles of all modes are included in the Brouter package.
you may also want some custom profiles.
https://github.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles/wiki
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.
One has often choose between simplicity and features.
Locus has some learning curve.
Locus uses MapsForge compatible maps, either its own LoMaps,
Either free one from OpenAndroMaps.
What is very important is there are multiple high quality rendering
themes, for all major transportation modes, from cars to alpine hiking.
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.
With OSMAnd, you have 2 offline choices, native and BRouter routing.
When you get more experinced, either with OSMAnd or LocusMap,
you can choose ready to use custom BRouter routing profiles,
or create your own ones, taylored to your preferences.
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