well there is something going on with brouter and my phone in the sense that a 22 minute trip in mapquest changes to 9 hrs using brouter in both locus and osmand and the icon is the little racecar...ie car.
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 4:50:32 AM UTC-5, Poutnik wrote: > > > > 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. > > -- 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.
