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So when you guys need to reroute on the fly, what are you using? and are you getting valuable information from it? Road surface, foot path, swamp land, cabbage field, etc.
This is exactly the use case where I find OSMAND is just awesome.
After the learning curve that is, but that applies to everything innit?
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I've got OSMAND but I rarely use it. It's normally enough to zoom out on the Garmin and pick another route.
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When I have to re-route on the fly I turn my phone on and use OSMAnd, but I just look at the roads, I don't get it to do a route. Essentially I don't trust any app to do routing, I only want map information so I can decide.
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frank9755
Yeah, I've had lots of little re-routes for that kind of thing. Hungary was pretty bad with its bike bans on roads. Often there'd be a path but then it'd be ripped up because of construction so you'd have to go around. Had similar issue in Italy I think on a path that kind of stopped and I couldn't work out how to get across a major road, cue lots of back and forth. Even in innocuous places like a little town in France I remember looping the town about three times because I couldn't work out how to exit it! Oh and the fucking RAB last year where every exit seemed to be a motorway. In the end I looked at the tracker and followed skinny's route for about 200k - there were only about 3 turns in that whole time but I'd wasted like an hour riding every exit trying to work out what wasn't banned. Think that was Hungary too. So fucking annoying. I think I had a hotel booked that night and it took twice as long as expected to get there so I didn't arrive until 6am or some shit and then left late. At least no Hungary this year.