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Using BRouter |
OsmAnd |
BRouter integration in OsmAnd changed a lot during the summer of 2019. This guide assumes you are using the BRouter Android app in version 1.5.0 or higher as well as OsmAnd in version 3.4 or higher.
First, install the BRouter app on your Android device from F-Droid or Google Play Store. You can also build the BRouter Android app yourself.
Then, launch the BRouter app and choose "Download Manager". Zoom in and select the areas you want to route in. Then click "Start Download" and BRouter will start downloading the segments files for the selected areas.
Note that you will have to repeat this step periodically, whenever you want to have an updated version of the OSM data used for the routing.
Once this is done, start again the BRouter app and choose the "BRouter App" entry on the main menu. Select the routing profile you want to use and click "Server-Mode". Then, tick the boxes for the routing modes you want to use this profile for. You can use two different profiles per transportation mode, which will be mapped to the "shortest" and "fastest" presets (these are just labelling) in OsmAnd.
You can now create an "Application profile" in OsmAnd which will be using BRouter for offline routing. Go to Settings -> Application profiles -> Add and create a new profile based on the base profile of your choice (cycling here, for bicycle routing), with a custom name of your choice ("BRouter" on the screenshot below) and making use of "BRouter (offline)" for navigation.
The BRouter app should be launched before OsmAnd for this specific entry to appear in OsmAnd. Therefore, if you cannot find "BRouter (offline)" navigation option, you should force quit OsmAnd and restart it.