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Heya,

I'm trying to go through Europe in Co-Maps. Particularly, I want to use offline maps to avoid aggressive roaming fees during one part of my route, as well as have a robust backup if online maps breaks. This seems to work great in preparation so far.

One thing I'd like to account for, is that driving through Switzerland is very expensive. I would rather want to detour slithly south through Austria, but I can't find a good way to communicate that to the app. I could try with some intermediary stops, but that seems like it would muddy the routing algorithm even more.

Is there a way to prefer/avoid areas or countries? Or a way to prepare a fitting route externally in advance, then reliably have it work in the app?

Thanks in advance.

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[–] kamillz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Perhapse it will avoid Switzerland if you don't download the map of the country, but I'm not sure^^

[–] nooch@lemmy.vg 3 points 1 day ago

For me it finds a route and asks me to download the maps of the route.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

That's pretty creative thinking.