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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:// |
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- | If BRouter | + | |
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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 | + | |
- | {{ :en: | + | ===== Usage in c:geo ==== |
- | BRouter will inform | + | 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 |
+ | You can do this in the [[.: | ||
- | {{ :en:brouter_configure2.png? | + | The internal BRouter engine will be used to calculate routes for mainly two functions as described briefly below. You can find a complete description of the map navigation lines and their functions in the [[.:mainmenu:livemap# |
- | Brouter will now show a world map and you have to touch on the area, for which you want to download routing information, | + | ==== Direction line ==== |
- | {{ : | + | If you invoke navigation to a cache/ |
+ | The distance information on the top right will show the routed distance additionally to the straight line distance. | ||
- | Once you zoomed in you can select the tiles (will be marked in green) of the desired geographical area(s) and select '' | + | {{ : |
+ | ==== Individual route ==== | ||
- | {{ :en:brouter_configure4.png? | + | To make use of the individual route feature you need to enable the long tap function on the map in your [[.:mainmenu:settings# |
- | <WRAP center round info 100%> | + | Then you can simply long tap sequentially on different caches/waypoints |
- | The download speed is limited by BRouter to 4 Mbit/s. So depending | + | |
- | </ | + | |
- | After successful download the tile map will now show the downloaded tiles in blue. | + | {{ : |
- | {{ :en:brouter_configure6.png? | + | To remove one cache/ |
- | You are now good to go, but remember, that you need to download new tiles here if you want to use the navigation feature | + | ==== 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: | ||