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The profiles are used to calculate routes for bicycles, pedestrians and experimentally cars. Brouter profiles collection gives few general comments about the profiles.
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The bike profiles are mainly focused on trekking/travelling bikes. See Choosing bicycle profile. The foot profiles are focused mainly on hiking / mountain hiking. Bicycle-Trekking-profiles / Hiking-profiles / Car-profiles wiki pages contain more deeply commented various aspects of profile options and way how to activate them.
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Here is the Guide to get the profiles of interest.
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As there was recently some confusion about used iswet flag, see the Iswet flag wiki page. An explanation of various terms is listed in Glossary. Some more verbose commentaries for Trekking/Hiking profiles are on pages Trekking MTB Profiles legend and Hiking profiles verbose comments.
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The routing / or just route generation can be done by one of the 3 ways:
- By the Android application BRouter itself from Google Play ( just route generation )
- By Android GPS navigation application OSMAnd, Locus and OruxMaps, that call BRouter internally via routing service API.
- By BRouter Web Desktop Frontend - useful for profile testing and route planning
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You can test the profiles online on Brouter-web frontend by pasting their text content to bottom left paste field + pressing UPLOAD button. It then appears as Custom profile, aside of predefined ones. Notice the changelog comments at top and bottom of the profile code. You can let the Web to generate GPX file and import it to Phone application to view it on route you along it.
- For reviewing development of my profile templates, and/or testing of not yet published versions, or to get all generated profiles
- see their template repositories Trekking-Poutnik / Hiking-Poutnik / Car-Profile
- and their respective wiki pages Trekking-Poutnik wiki / Hiking-Poutnik wiki / Car-Profile wiki
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Poutnik is a Czech word for ein Wanderer or a pilgrim/long range (foot) traveller)
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Brouter is a 3rd party standalone Application see on Google Play Store
Setting up the Android App
Brouter KitKat survival guide
Brouter-web service is an online brother of Brouter app, useful for- Online interactive route planning with viapoints and nogo areas
- Brouter profile testing
- GPX track preparation for Locus GPX navigation/guidance