OsmAnd VS Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)

> Google maps and Waze does not allow for setting vehicle height

As a side note, OsmAnd supports setting vehicle height* and has support for multiple vehicles/routing profiles: https://osmand.net

*: and weight, width, and length

Slightly offtopic

I have OsmAnd ( https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd ) on my phone, download the basemaps, download my (small) country data (both sourced from open street maps), and with an app + ~1GB of data, I get the maps and full navigation within my country, POIs, etc., and can add other countries when needed.

Is there something similar for a PC? I can download data from open street maps, but then I need postgres, postgis, a tile server and styles and apache running just to generate the tiles. Is there anything portable (short of running osmand in an android virtualbox) for offline navigation on a linux pc? QGIS can display vectors, but I wasn't able to easily style the data... navigation is a no-go there too. anything else?

OsmAnd works for me. I am looking to get off Google, so I try to retire anything that is not on F-Droid. OsmAnd is a independent project ( osmand.net ) that uses the data you can also access under www.openstreetmap.org . The App is not perfect and sometimes it calls for the wrong action, for example when a road is just taking a steep turn it might ask for you to turn onto a different road which is actually the same every now and then. Also Google uses the location data of it's users to change routes depending on congestion afaik. Don't expect that from OsmAnd.

Organic Maps & OsmAnd~ are the classic map alternatives but i don't use them.

When I am on a flight and the flight does not provide the flight information, I am using the OsmAnd, https://osmand.net/, to monitor the flight altitude, speed and direction.

Regarding usage of OpenStreetMap over Google Maps - assuming we're talking mobile usage - you might give OSMAnd[0] a try. I've been using it exclusively on a Pixel loaded with GrapheneOS for a few months now. I would never consider going back to GMaps and I don't feel that I've lost anything either.

[0] - https://osmand.net/

OsmAnd~ (version 4.5.8): Global Mobile Map Viewing & Navigation for Offline and Online OSM Maps

OSMAnd tracks users using a secret supercookie by default because the developer wants metrics. This is done without consent. The defensiveness of the developer with regards to such unethical tracking means that I will never use any software they ever release.

https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/15058

OSMand: https://osmand.net/

then called the Open Streetmap api described here using Power query: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/blob/master/docs/http.md

OSRM: A super fast and easy to use routing engine that runs on OSM data. You only need to run 5 lines of code to (1) download a .pbf from Geofabrik, (2-5) download the OSRM docker image and pre-process the OSM data. There are also 3 profiles predefined that you can use: car, bike, foot (e.g. foot.lua). It basically hosts a local server. I find the easiest way is to combine it with the osrm R package. I have seen you also need to adjust for the elevation. I think I have seen some custom LUA profiles that also account for DTM derived elevation changes as an additional weight.

I am trying (and failing) to setup an OSRM instance with docker compose. The issue I've encountered is with setting up osrm-backend. According to the Github and Docker Hub pages, the process is as follows:

I am creating Rust bindings to https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend using autocxx. This allows for fast routing on openstreetmap data. They have a nodejs server, but I'm going to write a Rust one with these new bindings. I am finding that many of the config classes in C++ are't Plain-Old-Data structures, so are opaque structs, so I have to write getters and setters in C++.

> As a cyclist I’m almost always disappointed by google, apple, and Valhalla

Have you tried the OSRM bike config? (The one you find in https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/blob/master/pro...)

This is a 30 second exercise on OSRM, or any other service that provides directions.

As for the rules for routing algorithms, OSMR's foot profile looks like good place to start. You could copy the file into something like for_women.lua and extend it with rules for e.g. street lighting and any other features of interest. Of course, it would be best to reach out to the other devs first.

I'm trying to calculate walking distances using OSM and OSRM but this results in distance matrices that violate triangle inequality. This is a pretty bad issue for the spatial models I'm building. I was wondering whether there are alternatives to OSRM that guarantee that triangle inequality is respected. Mostly, I really don't care about the routing algorithm looking at red lights, whether streets are one or two way streets, private roads, etc. I just need the distance along pathways between points.