Hello! I’m looking for a foss navigator app for my android device, but all navigator apps I’ve tried (OSMand, organic map) are missing a feature: when I calculate the route from point A to point B, on Google Maps a few possible routes are displayed, and then I chose the one I prefer; on other apps only one possible route is displayed, and if for any motivation I don’t want to pass from a certain street or something like this, I have no other options. Is there an app (or a way on these apps) to make it calculate a few possible routes instead of just one?

thanks in advance!

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    1 year ago

    Because the processing is done on your phone, not by servers with enormous quantities of map data stores in RAM in the cloud.

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      1 year ago

      but google maps also works offline, does it store the routes in memory? is it more convenient than calculating the route locally?

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        1 year ago

        We’re talking about servers storing tens or hundreds of gigabytes of map data in RAM. Your phone doesn’t even have that capability. That’s why calculating a route on OSM is slow and Google is fast