Long time user of Osmand. 
Been quite a while since I commented.

I used to keep several versions
on my phone. Using..
net.osmand
net.osmand.dev
net.osmand.plus

However the 3.6.3 has been such a remarkable cleanup of the
menus for the different profiles, I'm dumping everything I used
to play around with. Great job with the new interface to the
the profiles. Cleaner! Elegant! Orthogonal! Not sure what the
best word is. I run Osmand on a $59 phone from 4 years ago.
And it works great.

About the routing. Yes sometimes a little slower than some of the other 
commercial
ones, but I played with all of them a lot over the past 4 years and I 
"feel" osmand tends to give more logical results. Like not routing through
a big city instead of taking the bypass around the city. While it's cool to
see a 500 mile route. In reality I don't drive than way. I pick a spot down 
the road
to get going. Maybe a 100 miles. The points further down the road I pick in 
my head
while driving. Long distance plans just never seem to work out for me.

Saw the comments about "Cant find routing.xml" 
Spent about an 
hour last night looking at the internal

net.osmand/files/routing
net.osmand.dev/files/routing
net.osmand.plus/files/routing

and the external

net.osmand/files/routing
net.osmand.dev/files/routing
net.osmand.plus/files/routing

on versions 3.4.8, version 3.5.5, and version 3.6.3
And I used the file search menu of Fx file explorer.
So the guy that can't find it. I think he's right.

Never found the routing.xml
Which is fine with me as I have no
desire to optimize something that has
been optimized by people with a lot
more knowledge of what's going on "under the hood".

Just as an experiment I grabbed the "routing.xml" from the
install of apk. Using WinRar to look at the contents of the apk.
Found the routing.xml. Put it in the routing directory
and played with the *heuristicCoefficient .*
>From the apk, the car route value is 1.5.
Changed it to 1.0.
Was not able to observe any difference on the calculation time
of a 50 mile route. But I have no idea if the app is even reading
the routing.xml from the directory I put it in so not much point
to the experiment. I personally don't think I should be screwing
with that value. Much simpler to "guide" a route with 
"avoid road"
and 
"intermediate points"

I can then jump to another application and get the same route.

Which by the way. The "Cruiser" app by "devemux86"
is really quite remarkable. Simple, lightweight. Routes
from point A to point B using car, bicycle, or foot.
Can learn the entire menu system is about 10 minutes.
If Osmand is the "swiss army knife" then "Cruiser"
is the "dagger" or "switch blade".
Osmand and Cruiser are the two navigation apps I keep
on my phone. If I had and mission to Mars, needed a navigation
system that my life depended on, it would probably be "Cruiser"

So to both camps. Keep up the great
work. The offline maps are great. And both
Apps are great!.
Kevin



  





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