Foss OSM-based navigator
Hello! I'm looking for a foss navigator app for my android device, but all navigator apps I've tried (OSMand, organic map) are missing a feature: when I calculate the route from point A to point B, on Google Maps a few possible routes are displayed, and then I chose the one I prefer; on other apps only one possible route is displayed, and if for any motivation I don't want to pass from a certain street or something like this, I have no other options. Is there an app (or a way on these apps) to make it calculate a few possible routes instead of just one?
thanks in advance!
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On Organic Maps and surely Osmand as well, you can add additional waypoints to your route to force a specific one. That's the way I do it
I also don't understand why I can't be shown 2-3 options, it's incredibly convenient. Manually adding waypoints, or manually telling it to avoid roads, isn't and it's also not the same thing. On Google I see whole alternative routes, in osmand I only see an adapted route when I make a change (waypoint/avoid), but I still only see that one route now. I no longer see the old one to compare, and switching back is cumbersome.
I don't really understand why a few options aren't shown as a default, maybe with slightly certain criteria if possible for a particular a to B. Like one avoiding highways, or hills, or just smaller roads. Maybe a shortest and a quickest, maybe one with fewest lights. If that's not possible, just show some comparable options with similar travel time? Would really improve the experience a lot.
Because the processing is done on your phone, not by servers with enormous quantities of map data stores in RAM in the cloud.
but google maps also works offline, does it store the routes in memory? is it more convenient than calculating the route locally?
We're talking about servers storing tens or hundreds of gigabytes of map data in RAM. Your phone doesn't even have that capability. That's why calculating a route on OSM is slow and Google is fast
exactly! It shouldn't be too difficult to implement in my opinion, but it would be very very useful