News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by Fronzie on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:17AM (#27578833)
The routing of OSMAnd+ is limited to a few hundred kilometers. On holidays I do do longer trips. OrganicMaps should still have the contraction-hierarchy routing which scales better for longer distance routing.
Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by Mediterraneo10 on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:25AM (#27578891)
OSMAnd doesn’t always have routing limited to a few hundred kilometers. If one is cycle-touring, then the Brouter engine plugin for OSMAnd can be installed and that generates pretty quickly very long-distance routes.

But with regard to planning long car journeys, there is always the option of generating the route using one of the several OSM-based routing engines on the web, then downloading a GPX file, opening it in OSMAnd, and telling OSMAnd that is the route you want to follow.

Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by rciorba on Monday June 21, 2021 @11:05AM (#27579883)
I just add intermediary way-points for long routes. Works well enough.
Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by npteljes on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:55PM (#27581723)
Not sure why you're downvoted, it's a legit problem, especially if practically any other engine doesn't have a problem with it. In reality I think I'd just split my route to get around the problem and call it a day, but it was convenient to not think about this, when planning my 800 km drive.
Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by maxerickson on Monday June 21, 2021 @06:08PM (#27585173)
I just tested, OSMAnd generates a 900 km route on my phone in one go, in about 10 seconds.
Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by npteljes on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:28AM (#27588292)
I tested it too, and ended up generating an 1000 km route without a problem. It was giving me "Ending point too far from nearest road" - until I figured out that the problem was the missing maps. As long as you have at least the road map downloaded for the whole route, it does the job.