Navigation Off Road
TomTomSDKNavigationOffRoad
Off-road navigation is a unique feature designed for outdoor exploration.
Driving or riding a vehicle on unpaved surfaces such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, and other natural terrain is called off-roading. Off-road navigation is designed for those areas that aren’t part of the network of roads and highways, where you don’t have a street name, speed limit signs or other road signs. These are paths where traditional road navigation systems are inaccurate.
On normal road navigation, you typically have the current location and destination in mind. You search for the address, and you get a planned route visualized on the map. The road network data and highway information exist in the system to plan the best possible route while checking for traffic and incidents. With off-road navigation, you must research the terrain and the area you will be traveling. You plan your route while considering any landmarks, trails, or other navigational tools to guide you. After gathering all the necessary data, you can create the route and start navigating it.
The off-road navigation experience differs from traditional navigation; it doesn’t involve visual or audio instructions guiding the driver through the route. When a deviation occurs, the route isn’t replanned; that functionality isn’t possible with the off-road navigation feature. The driver provides the coordinates for planning the route, and there is no information in our system about off-road trails. During navigation, the NavigationRouteTrackingStateUpdateObserver gives the current state if the driver is following the route or deviating from it. For off-road navigation, a custom deviation implementation can be implemented. You can visualize the deviation by drawing a new route line from the current location back to the planned route.
Declaration
Swift
extension OffRoadArrivalDetectionEngine: CustomStringConvertible
Factory for creating an off-road ArrivalDetectionEngine
instance.
Off-road arrival detection engine detects when the driver has reached their final destination during off-road navigation.
Example of creating an OffRoadArrivalDetectionEngine
with the default value for destinationArrivalDistanceThreshold
:
let offRoadArrivalDetectionEngine = OffRoadArrivalDetectionEngineFactory.create()
Example of creating an OffRoadArrivalDetectionEngine
with a specific value for destinationArrivalDistanceThreshold
:
let offRoadArrivalDetectionEngine = OffRoadArrivalDetectionEngineFactory.create(destinationArrivalDistanceThreshold: .tt.meters(5))
To create a default off-road Navigation
, check the OffRoadTomTomNavigationFactory
class.
Important
This is a Public Preview API. It may be changed or removed at any time.Declaration
Swift
public enum OffRoadArrivalDetectionEngineFactory
Factory for creating an off-road GuidanceEngine
instance.
Off-road navigation guidance provides directions and help for travel on unpaved or unmarked paths, such as trails, dirt roads, or open terrain. This API provides a way to create GuidanceEngine instances that handle off-road navigation guidance.
To create a default off-road Navigation
, check the OffRoadTomTomNavigationFactory
class.
Important
This is a Public Preview API. It may be changed or removed at any time.Declaration
Swift
public enum OffRoadGuidanceEngineFactory
Declaration
Swift
extension OffRoadMapMatchingEngine: CustomStringConvertible
Factory for creating an off-road MapMatchingEngine
instance.
Map-matching is the process of aligning GPS traces with the road network data on a digital map. It involves matching GPS coordinates to the roads on the map and snapping the points to the nearest roadway. For off-road navigation there’s no information on the roads to map-match it on a digital map, instead the raw location of the user is shown on the map.
To create a default off-road Navigation
, check the OffRoadTomTomNavigationFactory
class.
Important
This is a Public Preview API. It may be changed or removed at any time.Declaration
Swift
public enum OffRoadMapMatchingEngineFactory
Declaration
Swift
extension OffRoadRouteProgressEngine: CustomStringConvertible
Factory for creating an off-road RouteProgressEngine
instance.
This factory creates an instance of the RouteProgressEngine
that is specifically designed for off-road navigation.
The RouteProgressEngine
is used to calculate the progress along the route, including the user’s position, speed, estimated time of arrival, and current location.
For off-road navigation, progress is calculated using RoutePoint
s along the route in straight-line distance without taking into account the estimated time of arrival or speed, only the raw location of the vehicle.
To create a default off-road Navigation
, check the OffRoadTomTomNavigationFactory
class.
Important
This is a Public Preview API. It may be changed or removed at any time.Declaration
Swift
public enum OffRoadRouteProgressEngineFactory
Declaration
Swift
extension OffRoadRouteProjectionEngine: CustomStringConvertible
Declaration
Swift
extension OffRoadRouteReplanner: CustomStringConvertible
Factory for creating an off-road RouteReplanner
instance.
Route replanning is used in road navigation to refresh the route and plan a new route when deviation is detected.
Deviation occurs when the driver leaves the planned route or when unexpected road closures or traffic incidents occur.
In off-road navigation, a GPX file is used to plan the route, but the functionalities for refreshing the route and handling deviation are not supported.
If replanning is enabled, the OffRoadRouteReplanner
will throw a notSupportedForOffRoadNavigation
error.
To create a default off-road Navigation
, check the OffRoadTomTomNavigationFactory
class.
Important
This is a Public Preview API. It may be changed or removed at any time.Declaration
Swift
public enum OffRoadRouteReplannerFactory
Declaration
Swift
extension OffRoadRouteTrackingEngine: CustomStringConvertible
Factory for creating an off-road RouteTrackingEngine
instance.
The RouteTrackingEngine
monitors if the driver is following the planned route or deviating from it and informs listeners of the NavigationRouteTrackingStateUpdateObserver
.
The engine uses data from the NavigationSnapshot
to determine whether the driver is on track. Then it returns a RouteTrackingState
with information about whether the driver is following the route.
To create a default off-road Navigation
, check the OffRoadTomTomNavigationFactory
class.
Important
This is a Public Preview API. It may be changed or removed at any time.Declaration
Swift
public enum OffRoadRouteTrackingEngineFactory
Off-road navigation is a unique feature designed for outdoor exploration.
Driving or riding a vehicle on unpaved surfaces such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, and other natural terrain is called off-roading. Off-road navigation is designed for those areas that aren’t part of the network of roads and highways, where you don’t have a street name, speed limit signs or other road signs. These are paths where traditional road navigation systems are inaccurate.
On normal road navigation, you typically have the current location and a destination in mind. You search for the address, and you get a planned route visualized on the map. The road network data and highway information exist in the system to plan the best possible route while checking for traffic and incidents. With off-road navigation, you must research the terrain and the area you will be traveling. You plan your route while considering any landmarks, trails, or other navigational tools to guide you. After gathering all the necessary data, you can create the route and start navigating it.
The off-road navigation experience differs from traditional navigation; it doesn’t involve visual or audio instructions guiding the driver through the route.
When a deviation occurs, the route isn’t replanned; that functionality isn’t possible with the off-road navigation feature.
The driver provides the coordinates for planning the route, and there is no information in our system about off-road trails.
During navigation, the NavigationRouteTrackingStateUpdateObserver
gives the current state if the driver is following the route or deviating from it.
For off-road navigation, a custom deviation implementation can be implemented.
You can visualize the deviation by drawing a new route line from the current location back to the planned route.
Off-road navigation mode uses specialized engines that create default configurations.
The OffRoadMapMatchingEngineFactory
factory creates a specific off-road navigation MapMatchingEngine
implementation,
which matches the raw location to the map. It doesn’t try to match the current area to the road network.
The same is true with the OffRoadTomTomNavigationFactory
, OffRoadRouteProgressEngineFactory
, OffRoadRouteTrackingEngineFactory
,
and the `OffRoadArrivalDetectionEngineFactory.
The rest of the off-road navigation engines have stub implementation, which is required for configuring the navigation.
Creating a Navigation
instance example:
let configuration = OffRoadTomTomNavigationFactory.Configuration(locationProvider: DefaultCLLocationProvider())
let tomTomNavigation = OffRoadTomTomNavigationFactory.create(configuration: configuration)
Important
This is a Public Preview API. It may be changed or removed at any time.Declaration
Swift
public enum OffRoadTomTomNavigationFactory