Navigation Settings

Locus Map does not contain its own service for calculating routes. Therefore, Route planner and Navigate to features cooperate with third party routers. Each router has specific properties, some is functional online-only, some works offline (after downloading offline navigation data):

• GraphHopper - very fast and data-efficient routing service. Suitable for all ordinary outdoor activities - three kinds of bike profiles: cycle, MTB and racing and two types of walk profiles: walk and hike. GraphHopper offers also a car navigation profile with sub-settings - avoiding highways, tolls, and ferries.
• YOURS- open source routing engine offers point-to-point route calculation suitable for guidance without voice commands. It has very good results in calculating bike routes (fast/short) but can be used also in a car (fast/short routes too).

• BRouter - external offline router - requires the installation of an independent application BRouter and downloading offline navigation data:
  • launch BRouter
    
    
  • select Download manager
    
    
  • zoom in and select the area you need for offline routing
    
    
  • Confirm downloading of the selected data file.

BRouter offers many more routing profiles with additional configuration:

You can also change the profile selection:

With these, you can link external profiles to the in-app selection:

• tap an in-app profile and select the corresponding external profile from the roll-out selection:
  
• rename the in-app profile, if necessary

• GraphHopper - BETA version of an offline version of the routing engine. This option is displayed when a special add-on is installed. More information here >>

Linking with the app presets enables fast re-setting of the whole app after the navigation start so that its preferences are better suitable for navigation. E.g. cursor is shifted, map rotation is on, the screen is turned permanently on etc. Three most used navigation profiles can be linked - walking, biking and motor vehicle:

• No voice - voice commands are disabled
• Text-to-speech - Android text-to-speech automatic system. TTS voice can be set in Language&Units settings section.

Navigation route is recalculated automatically if the deviation from the former route is greater than the parameter distance for recalculation. If you don't follow the recalculated route, Locus Map will recalculate it once again after 30 seconds. You will need internet connection in case an online routing service is selected (e.g. GraphHopper Online or YOURS). For offline routing it is necessary to additionally download and install BRouter co-app and download offline routing data. There are 3 options:

• No auto recalculation - the function is switched OFF - Locus switches to guidance to the nearest point of the original route
• Point priority - Locus recalculates the route to the nearest transit (or 'via') point on the planned route. If there are no 'via' points, it recalculates the route to the final point.
• Route priority - used when you deviate from the original line and want to get back to it - Locus navigates you to the original line as soon as possible and on the nearest place - the line (route) matters.

Settings for manual recalculation that can be triggered from navigation panel.

Check this option if you want Locus Map to warn you when you accidentally leave your route. Set the alert distance, alert repetition and type of sound (beep, voice…):

• Basic - in default settings, the line width and color it is optimized for the best visibility. Anyway, it is possible to change them.
• Custom - you can set all parameters of the line style Locus Map offers in its line style editor
• Keep original - when you navigate an already existing route (imported, planned, recorded track…) and you want to maintain its line style during navigation, select this option.

Each route consists of a chain of routepoints (sort of breadcrumbs). This option navigates strictly from one routepoint to another. When you make a deviation, it tries to get you to the last omitted routepoint.

Sets maximum allowed deviation from the route before switching navigation to guidance

Ignores slight inaccuracies of GPS positioning and maintains the navigation cursor position on the navigated route

Manually drawn or imported routes do not contain navigation commands so when you select navigation along such a route, Locus has to generate the navigation commands according to the shape of the line. This setting defines how often you are prompted of direction changes on the route: none - low - medium - high.

When two turns of a route follow closely, Locus Map notifies of both of them at once. Unchecking divides the navigation command into two separate ones.

When checked, the navigation is stopped and navigation panel removed when you get to the finish of your route

Here you can select set of navigation cursors and set their size (50%-400%)