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Offline Routing/guiding: what about street/POI names?
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I think quite a lot of people, like me, would like to use locus in a comfortable way for city touring as well by being guided/routed along streets/POIs in cities.
Simple guiding/routing of the way like "turn right/left" is not of much help in, let's say, an old city with a great number of POIs and small streets lying near each other. You want to know which street exactly you should turn into or which POI exactly you are reaching as your destination.
What about implementing this sort of "advanced" offline guiding for city touring?
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Hi Nicky,
in fact, it's not a bad idea. However, the implementation of it can be pretty tricky. It could make troubles in a densely urbanized areas. Locus isn't a router (it uses third party routing engines) - it would have to pick the data from the POI/address database that is router - independent. Anyway, thanks.
Hi Nicky,
in fact, it's not a bad idea. However, the implementation of it can be pretty tricky. It could make troubles in a densely urbanized areas. Locus isn't a router (it uses third party routing engines) - it would have to pick the data from the POI/address database that is router - independent. Anyway, thanks.
Sure, thanks :)
But why do you have to rely on an external routing service alone (lacking reasonable features) and will you not implement an adequate routing/guiding with street/POI names by yourself? ;)
Now i have to use "Osmand+" for exactly this purpose of guiding/routing with street+POI names in cities, which is working like a charm. But i'd be glad to have this function in Locus as well and not have to use 2 different apps :)
Sure, thanks :)
But why do you have to rely on an external routing service alone (lacking reasonable features) and will you not implement an adequate routing/guiding with street/POI names by yourself? ;)
Now i have to use "Osmand+" for exactly this purpose of guiding/routing with street+POI names in cities, which is working like a charm. But i'd be glad to have this function in Locus as well and not have to use 2 different apps :)
This is true.. I also use Osmand+ only for this amazing routing with street and POI names anouncing, in my native language
..For the rest,Locus :) But I don't know how many hours of work would mean for this to be implemented by Menion :(
This is true.. I also use Osmand+ only for this amazing routing with street and POI names anouncing, in my native language
..For the rest,Locus :) But I don't know how many hours of work would mean for this to be implemented by Menion :(
Creating our own routing engine is not a matter of hours but of days or weeks. For now, we find easier using a third arty routers.
Creating our own routing engine is not a matter of hours but of days or weeks. For now, we find easier using a third arty routers.
Sure, it's a matter of weeks, if no even months, no doubt :)
The question is about the general policy for locus map in the future: what sort of app it's going to develop to.
If you want to give us a good navigation solution for already known/labeled places like POIs/streets than your external offline routing solutions are at the moment pretty cumbersome and limited in that respect:
- downloading and maiintaining huge maps twice on the very limited storege on mobile devices
- no guiding/routing by existing lables, instead only by "left/right" as though we were in a forest
As a answer to my question you hardly can simply refer to a external solution the way it exists now, becuase it's a completely different thing to get comfortable routing/guiding by reasonable labels and corresponding voice commands ;)
Sure, it's a matter of weeks, if no even months, no doubt :)
The question is about the general policy for locus map in the future: what sort of app it's going to develop to.
If you want to give us a good navigation solution for already known/labeled places like POIs/streets than your external offline routing solutions are at the moment pretty cumbersome and limited in that respect:
- downloading and maiintaining huge maps twice on the very limited storege on mobile devices
- no guiding/routing by existing lables, instead only by "left/right" as though we were in a forest
As a answer to my question you hardly can simply refer to a external solution the way it exists now, becuase it's a completely different thing to get comfortable routing/guiding by reasonable labels and corresponding voice commands ;)
Development of our own routing system would cost us too much. So far. Locus is primarily an outdoor app so if it behaves like "in a forest", it's fine for the most of our users. However, we are thinking about deeper implementing of a third party routing system in future - if it is BRouter or GraphHopper and if they can navigate with street names in future, who knows. Anyway, thanks for your idea.
If you want to be notified of points in your own database (e.g. geocaches), try POI alert feature ;) It works nice and tells names of the points via TTS.
Development of our own routing system would cost us too much. So far. Locus is primarily an outdoor app so if it behaves like "in a forest", it's fine for the most of our users. However, we are thinking about deeper implementing of a third party routing system in future - if it is BRouter or GraphHopper and if they can navigate with street names in future, who knows. Anyway, thanks for your idea.
If you want to be notified of points in your own database (e.g. geocaches), try POI alert feature ;) It works nice and tells names of the points via TTS.
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