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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 | + | You can activate the internal routing function and define further settings (like storage folder for routing files, automatic |
- | After Brouter | + | After routing |
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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 routing information). Make sure you do not use a metered network or have enough quota before you continue by selecting '' | + | |
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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 routing information, | + | |
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- | Once you zoomed in you can select the tiles (will be marked in green) of the desired geographical area(s) and select '' | + | |
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<WRAP center round info 100%> | <WRAP center round info 100%> | ||
- | The download speed is limited by BRouter to 4 Mbit/s. So depending on the amount | + | The routing data of BRouter |
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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 feature in other geographical areas as those you just downloaded. You might also want to update the existing routing info from time to time be downloading the needed tiles again with this download manager. | ||
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===== 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 [[.: |
- | Then you can simply long click sequentially on different caches/ | + | Then you can simply long tap sequentially on different caches/ |
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- | To remove one cache/ | + | To remove one cache/ |
==== Customization ==== | ==== Customization ==== | ||
- | To minimize potential delays in usage of c:geo BRouter | + | 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 [[.: |