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Calimoto Navigation App.

  • 19-07-2025 03:25PM
    #1
    Mad_Lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭


    I just discovered this today, been looking for a proper nav app that isn't just focusing on A to B navigation.

    This is what I've been looking for, you select your routes and configure waypoints along the way and where other navigation apps just choose to go to the shortest one first and/or completely destroy your route this one will not.

    You can just tap on a road you want to go if it selects a roads you don't want and add it as way point, you can press and hold on the waypoints to reconfigure their order too.

    You can share your route and find others and discover trips, select windy routes etc.



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  • #2
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,934 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Here maps does that as well



  • #3
    Mad_Lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mad_Lad


    Good to know thanks, I was looking for an app that could do all that, google maps and tomtom are absolute crap for what I wanted to do.



  • #4
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,934 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123653533#Comment_123653533

    Also when you reach a waypoint it's it doesn't stop directing to the next one.

    Google maps you have to press screen to continue on at each waypoint.

    Waze iirc only lets you input one waypoint.

    Here is free and you can also download maps to use offline.



  • #5
    Mad_Lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mad_Lad


    Cheers. Can't beat having dedicated app, Google was driving me nuts and then sending me down roads I didn't want to go which may be shorter but dirt tracks and wouldn't go to waypoints in the order I wanted.



  • #6
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,934 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123653603#Comment_123653603

    You're probably better off choosing car route than motorbike route



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  • #7
    muddle84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭muddle84


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123653556#Comment_123653556

    I hadn't heard of Here maps. Can Here save and upload gpx files too?

    I've found Kurviger better than Calimoto, not much different, just prefer the interface. You have to pay for the best features with both of them though!!



  • #8
    muddle84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭muddle84


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655402#Comment_123655402

    I forgot to add, that for both of them, I love that you can create routes on a desktop and save them to your profile! Its brilliant when you're going for a multiple day trip!



  • #9
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,934 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655402#Comment_123655402

    Ive never tried or had the need to do so, so no experience with how gpx files work.

    This any good to you?

    https://www.here.com/docs/bundle/anonymizer-self-hosted-user-guide/page/data-formats/gpx.html


  • #10
    muddle84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭muddle84


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655650#Comment_123655650

    I use the gpx files to share routes with friends. And i've seen them used with group rides on the odd occasion i'd be on one.

    Thanks for the link, I can't seem to be able to open the files i have on the app though so I'm not sure if its compatible or not. Its a nice interface on the app though!



  • #11
    Mad_Lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mad_Lad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655503#Comment_123655503

    Now that's handy alright, I didn't know that !



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  • #12
    Mad_Lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mad_Lad


    I find Calimoto a lot easier to use and do what I want, just downloaded here maps and I just find Calimoto does what I want better in regard to plotting a circular route with 1,2,3,4,5 waypoints etc and giving a more direct route, I find here maps sends me down roads I don't want to go or it back tracks on itself sending me back down roads I already would come.



  • #13
    muddle84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭muddle84


    Are you paying for Calimoto or just on the free trial?



  • #14
    Mad_Lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mad_Lad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123656265#Comment_123656265

    Free. I think the free version has all I need.



  • #15
    Banzai600
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 483 ✭✭Banzai600


    ive used calimoto around europe, handy when you are staying at one spot central….but at home i didnt use it at all.



  • #16
    Mad_Lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mad_Lad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123656284#Comment_123656284

    I just need it for creating routes rather than circle around places I'm not familiar with.



  • #17
    Banzai600
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 483 ✭✭Banzai600


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123656312#Comment_123656312

    yea its good for that - what id normally do here as ireland is so small is just avoid main roads and go the roads ive not been before. but the app is handy for this kinda thing, but i think its more for europe / US, much much bigger swathes of land mass.



  • #18
    Mad_Lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mad_Lad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123656332#Comment_123656332

    I'd say it was more designed as better alternative to Google, Apple, TomTom which are actually shyte when it comes to route planning. I don't think they had planed it just for the purpose of navigating large countries, of course it can be used for that but I think the intended purpose was to offer what the other nav apps don't.

    There's a lot of roads in Ireland, roads that have grass in the middle, motorway and it's easy to get lost on unfamiliar roads with the endless amount of backroads, cross roads and T-Junctions with 0 signs.

    It's great, I press and hold on a place, add as waypoint, then the next and the next and I can see them as 1,2,3,4 etc and it will only calculate a route from 1,2,3,4 in that order and not mixed up like the other nav apps do backtracking on roads you just came down because it wants to lead you on a shorter route. That's all I need.



  • #19
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    massive thumbs down from me for here. I’ve been using it to get to places that I know for the past few days. Not ONCE has the address search matched up with what I wanted


    I had the same issue with calimoto, which is why I deleted it. It’s handy for suggestions and recording ( and the turn angle thingy is something that immature 50yr old me was making into a game!! 🤣) but using it as a full time nav app, nope.



  • #20
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,934 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123671046#Comment_123671046

    Which one?



  • #21
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    here wego



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  • #22
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    an example from this morning.

    IMG_1297.png

    that is from Waze


    IMG_1296.png

    that’s here wego with the same requesr



  • #23
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,934 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123671285#Comment_123671285

    I see.

    Ive never used it like that.

    I just either input a place I want to go/pass by or tap on the map.

    The lack of waypoints put me off Waze.

    I suppose none of them are perfect or suitable for everyone.



  • #24
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123671588#Comment_123671588

    I haven’t used it for route planning for waypoints or anything like that yet, but for a navigation app I found the inaccurate addresses a huge issue.

    Waze has huge limitations in the lack of waypoints, I agree, and even it’s route planning is wonky, having to select the destination first, THEN adding in the intermediate waypoint, but at least it’s got accurate addresses!



  • #25
    Mad_Lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mad_Lad


    If I want to navigate A to B I'll still use Google maps, for address searching and all that because if I'm specifically looking for an address then chances are I'm only going to there and back and google is fine for A to B but not for planning a route in a specific direction that only goes the roads and direction you specify.

    I find Calimoto fantastic to just tap on the screen and ass as waypoint and you can set the order and it will only navigate from 1,2,3,4 etc, other maps such as google will just try always go the shortest way and mess up your route.

    Now saying all that, I haven't put it to the test yet because my deauville is still dead nothing heard since so I won't know what it's really like until I can test it on the road.



  • #26
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,527 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Tried out Kurviger today, while visiting a couple of spots on the Photo Rally. Unfortunately, the free version is crippled for navigation on mobile, so only good for plotting routes and them exporting them as gpx to some other tool. On the free version, you can only follow the plot line (no navigation, or re-routing). They have a 7 day free trial, and once I unlocked that, I found it excellent. Will try it our for a few more days, but really like that you can adjust the route curvature with a simple drop-down. Will probably pay the €30 for the first year and see how it goes.



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