Feature: Plan route for a future date and time

[Discostu36]

Now that Osmand supports conditional restrictions, it would be nice to have support for planned routes. For example:

• What will be the fastest route to work next week, when the motorway is closed due to maintenance?
• Will this route also be the fastest at night, when speed limits against traffic noise apply?

[mattmccutchen]

I want this too, mostly to test my changes to conditional restrictions before submitting them to OpenStreetMap (I don't know of any other good router for which it's comparably easy to load a custom OSM file), but I imagine the feature would be useful to normal users as well.

The navigation options menu already has a "Consider temporary limitations" boolean flag, which ultimately gets passed to the routing engine here. All we'd need to do is add another item to the menu that opens a time and date picker and then follow exactly the same process to pass the specified time to the routing engine for use in place of System.currentTimeMillis() on the next line. I'm struggling to come up with a good name for the menu item that would be easy for users to understand; maybe someone can help with this later. (Or maybe there should be a single menu item that opens a dialog box with options "current time", "custom time", and "ignore conditionals"?)

I'm tempted to go ahead and try to implement this, at least in a fork for my own use, if I find the time to try to set up the whole OsmAnd build process on my machine; it looks complex. :/ Is there anything I should know, beyond any general developer documentation I can find?

[vshcherb]

Well I think no, the issue we need to come up with UI for this feature which we will think fit there. Technically it's quite easy to implement but the problem how it looks and how to deal with it.

[Peter0]

I just want to mention that me too would consider this feature very useful.