A thumbs up for Calimoto

[Hatcho]

Having just spent two weeks in Norway and letting Calimoto decide my route between my defined start and finish points, I'm very impressed. It routed me onto some lovely back roads that I otherwise would have missed.

The algorithm is not perfect, sometimes I'd be diverted off a main street only to return to it three bends later. But I'd never rely exclusively on any navigation app, you always need to employ common sense.

In terms of pre planning your route, the Calimoto user interface is most excellent. The website is very intuitive and easy to use. Even the phone app allows you to tweak things along the way.

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Copied from a parallel thread, with a mild edit.

Richard

 

[Wapping]

The algorithm is not perfect, sometimes I'd be diverted off a main street only to return to it three bends later.

That is very similar to Kurviger and indeed several other app’s. The algorithms are sometimes a bit aggressive, creating ‘twisties’ by simply taking the user off a perfectly good (sensible to use) road, onto some silly little excursion. There used to be reports of Garmin users being diverted into towns, to do back doubles around housing or industrial estates and / or around roundabouts, just to create ‘twisties’.

In a way it’s similar to Garmin’s standard algorithm, which will offer up a silly deviation at a perfectly good T-junction, just to cut a corner. In doing so, it reduces the distance to be travelled by a few yards, the algorithm working out that it would be ‘quicker’ to cut the corner, when in reality the ‘short cut’ would (in all probability) take longer.

The only way to avoid them is to (before transfer to the device) zoom into the route being offered up and correct the silly deviations…. Or just ignore them as you ride along.