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- | ====== Using BRouter with c:geo ====== | + | ====== Using routed navigation in c:geo ====== |
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- | BRouter is a small app available for Android, which provides navigated routes, which are calculated offline, between two coordinates based on [[https:// | + | BRouter is a routing engine, which is integrated into c:geo. It provides navigated routes, which are calculated offline, between two coordinates based on [[https:// |
+ | If the [[.: | ||
- | If BRouter is installed and configured on your device, c:geo can use it to replace the normal straight line shown on map between your position and the navigation target (i.e. a cache or a waypoint) by a routed line as you can see in the example comparison below. | + | ^ Navigation without |
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- | ^ Navigation without | + | |
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The routing can be configured to be suitable for walking, biking or car according to your needs and will help you finding your way to the destination. Additionally you can also use this routing to create individual routes involving several waypoints sequentially to plan your caching trip. | The routing can be configured to be suitable for walking, biking or car according to your needs and will help you finding your way to the destination. Additionally you can also use this routing to create individual routes involving several waypoints sequentially to plan your caching trip. | ||
- | ===== Installing and configuring BRouter | + | ===== Activate routing |
- | You can download | + | You can activate the internal routing function and define further settings (like storage folder for routing files, automatic |
- | After Brouter | + | After routing |
- | In order to download | + | |
- | {{ : | + | <WRAP center round info 100%> |
+ | The routing data of BRouter might be several hundred megabyte in size. | ||
+ | </ | ||
- | BRouter will inform you, that it needs to download a larger amount of data (depending on the size of the geographical area for which you want to download routing information). Make sure you do not use a metered network or have enough quota before you continue by selecting '' | + | ===== Usage in c:geo ==== |
- | {{ :en:brouter_configure2.png? | + | Once you activated the routing as described above, c:geo will use it automatically. There is no need for any configuration in c:geo, except that you might want to change the used routing mode (Bike, Walk, Car) according to your needs. |
+ | You can do this in the [[.: | ||
- | Brouter | + | The internal BRouter engine |
- | {{ : | + | ==== Direction line ==== |
+ | If you invoke navigation to a cache/ | ||
- | Once you zoomed in you can select | + | The distance information on the top right will show the routed distance additionally to the straight line distance |
- | {{ :en:brouter_configure4.png? | + | {{ :en:brouter_with.png? |
+ | ==== Individual route ==== | ||
- | <WRAP center round info 100%> | + | To make use of the individual route feature |
- | The download speed is limited by BRouter to 4 Mbit/s. So depending on the amount of routing tiles you selected the download will last a bit. Make sure to keep BRouter open in foreground while the download is in progress. | + | |
- | </ | + | |
- | After successful download the tile map will now show the downloaded tiles in blue. | + | Then you can simply long tap sequentially on different caches/ |
- | {{ :en:brouter_configure6.png? | + | {{ :en:brouter_individualroute.png? |
- | You are now good to go, but remember, that you need to download new tiles here if you want to use the navigation feature | + | To remove one cache/ |
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+ | ==== Customization ==== | ||
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+ | To minimize potential delays | ||
- | ===== Usage in c:geo ==== | ||
- | Once you installed and configured BRouter as described above, c:geo will use it automatically. There is no need for any configuration in c:geo, except that you might want to change the used routing mode (Bike, Walk, Car) according to your needs. | ||
- | You can do this in the [[en: | ||