Configurable titles for brouter navigation
Hi there!
During the last weeks I have been traveling by bike a lot and so I have become a fan of brouter's offline navigation.
However, while the trekking profile (linked to 'short' in Locus) is great it is not perfect: Sometimes the roads it guides me to are quite busy. That's a fact brouter cannot know because it does not depend on the streets name or numbering scheme.
Therefore, sometimes I set the avoid_unsafe flag in the trekking configuration file to true. This makes the route longer but safer. Unfortunately, this is very uncomfortable and I would much rather have both options at hand right from the navigation menu in Locus. I know that I could link the second trekking configuration to one of the car navigation buttons. But frankly speaking 'short' and 'fast' are misleading enough to me ;) Remembering which car profile contains my safe trekking profile would make it even more confusing.
How about the possibility to long press the buttons, which will let me chose a pictogram (car, bike, hiker) and a title (e.g. 'trek' and 'trek_safe').
It would be a purely visual thing since brouter's serviceconfig.dat would not be affected. But I think it would be a boost to navigation flexibility and ease of use.
Thank you for your consideration :)
I like this idea 
Nice idea for skilled mates.
This "feature" has to be made especially for brouter.
Maybe lot work for small number of users...
Anyway +1 for more flexible routing profiles.
Nice idea for skilled mates.
This "feature" has to be made especially for brouter.
Maybe lot work for small number of users...
Anyway +1 for more flexible routing profiles.
There is multiple ready to use as well as tunable bicycle Brouter profiles, e.g. https://github.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles/wiki/Bicycle-Trekking-profiles.
One has to assign them in Brouter to its bicycle Short / Fast navigation modes, that are then used in Locus.
I use a mnemonic help of Fast biased toward roads and Short toward track.
while the overall bias is matter of the user preferences.
There is multiple ready to use as well as tunable bicycle Brouter profiles, e.g. https://github.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles/wiki/Bicycle-Trekking-profiles.
One has to assign them in Brouter to its bicycle Short / Fast navigation modes, that are then used in Locus.
I use a mnemonic help of Fast biased toward roads and Short toward track.
while the overall bias is matter of the user preferences.
As example one can assign within the Brouter
Trekking-Fast as Bicycle Fast + Trekking-Dry as Bicycle Short
or
Trekking-wet as Bicycle Fast + Trekking-Dry as Bicycle Short
or
Trekking-dry as Bicycle Fast + Trekking-MTB light / medium / strong as Bicycle Short
As example one can assign within the Brouter
Trekking-Fast as Bicycle Fast + Trekking-Dry as Bicycle Short
or
Trekking-wet as Bicycle Fast + Trekking-Dry as Bicycle Short
or
Trekking-dry as Bicycle Fast + Trekking-MTB light / medium / strong as Bicycle Short
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