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Welcome to the Poutnik's Brouter custom profiles wiki

• The profiles are used by Brouter to calculate routes for bicycles, pedestrians and experimentally cars. Brouter profiles collection gives few general comments about the profiles.

• 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.

• Here is the Guide to get the profiles of interest.

• 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
    • Be aware that when testing my profiles as they are, the Brouter web WILL NOT not generate navigation instructions. As the parameter turnInstructionMode = 1 ( auto-choose as default), intended for Android OSMAnd vs Locus detections. To generate navigation instructions for the target application, set turnInstructionMode to 2(locus-style) or 3(osmand-style)

• 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.

Profile development

• 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