Navigation app suggestions?
Navigation app suggestions?
I'm looking for an app where I can define roads it should not use, in order to avoid some legal to cycle but quite dangerous spots.
The apps I found are either (a) fully manual pathfinding or (b) fully auto pathfinding where I can add additional stops, but not substract dangerous locations.
Do you know any like that? What navigation apps do you use?
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Osmand can do this. And basically anything else. I'm always mystified to find how many people haven't even heard of it, or use weak imitations like MapsMe or Organic Maps.
There's also brouter which acts as a routing companion app to Osmand. It's a bit of a pain to set up, but gives very good results.
In my experience, the latest of which dates to today, Brouter is rubbish. What I usually want is pretty obvious: take me by the most direct route which has the least cars. If I choose "Balanced" or "Prefer byways" in Osmand, the results are (usually) acceptable. The closest I can get in Brouter is "Consider traffic" - at which it will pick a route that takes winding scenic detours off the main road every few kilometers, which is an absolutely dumb way to solve the problem. Whatever. Perhaps there's a better way to do it.
Holy shit this is a game changer. Unlike Google Maps it doesn't try to kill me by taking me on to hella busy roads on my bike.
The full version (OsmAnd+) is free on Fdroid (as OsmAnd~): https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus
Because phones have Google or Apple Maps installed by default, and I'm willing to bet that most people just stick with those.
OSMand, and the Openstreetmap data it relies on, is sooooooo much better than the capitalist slop you find in those other mapping platforms.
Yes! Absolutely go for OsmAnd, it's a godsend.
I'm also using it when I'm driving a car and want to find some alternate routes or when I want to make sure that the road I want to use is traversable
I've been using OSMand+ for years here in the United states. Its routing is kind of frustrating for automobiles, and it sometimes doesn't even get you to the right place. I'm finding Magic Earth is much better for automobile navigation.
All the other features are awesome. And I do use it for biking successfully. Detailed map data is spotty in the USA, but improving. I use OpenSuperMaps to get detailed address data that can be searched in the typical way we do it here, and the overlays for biking and hiking are amazing!
Ohh wow, this is significantly better than organic maps! I tried using just now for a short trip and it is so smooth compared to organic map, where the navigation is best described as stiff. It also shows road bump for some reason. Feels like it works better than komoot, as komoot will send me through busy road just so the total distance is 1km shorter.