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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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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 and install BRouter either from [[https:// | + | You can activate |
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- | After Brouter is installed you need to download routing information for the desired geographical area for BRouter to be able to offline calculate routes. Without this downloaded | + | |
- | In order to download the needed routing information, | + | |
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- | 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 | + | |
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- | Brouter will now show a world map and you have to touch on the area, for which you want to download | + | |
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- | Once you zoomed in you can select | + | |
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- | <WRAP center round info 100%> | + | |
- | The download speed is limited by BRouter to 4 Mbit/s. So depending on the amount of routing | + | |
- | </WRAP> | + | |
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- | After successful download the tile map will now show the downloaded tiles in blue. | + | |
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- | You are now good to go, but remember, that you need to download new tiles here if you want to use the navigation | + | |
+ | After routing is activated and automatic download is active the routing information for the desired geographical area will be automatically downloaded when invoking the routing function for the first time. | ||
===== Usage in c:geo ==== | ===== Usage in c:geo ==== | ||
- | Once you installed and configured BRouter | + | Once you activated the routing |
- | You can do this in the [[en: | + | You can do this in the [[.: |
- | BRouter will be used to calculate routes for mainly two functions as described below. | + | The internal |
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==== Individual route ==== | ==== Individual route ==== | ||
- | To make use of the individual route feature you need to enable the long lick function on the map in your [[.: | + | To make use of the individual route feature you need to enable the long tap function on the map in your [[.: |
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+ | Then you can simply long tap sequentially on different caches/ | ||
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- | Then you can simply long click sequentially on different caches/ | + | To remove one cache/ |
+ | ==== Customization ==== | ||
+ | To minimize potential delays in usage of c:geo it will calculate routes up to a max. length of 10km by default. You can customize this limit between 0 an 999km in the c:geo [[.: | ||