The Routes and Navitation Settings screen is divided in two areas: Basic Settings and Advanced Settings.
Basic Settings
The Basic Settings are always shown by default. Please use the following table as a reference.
| Settings | Description | Recommendation | Useful links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accessibility Mode | Allows to select the type of routes that will be computed:
| We recommend to use "Shortest route" or "Only accessible routes", depending on whether you want your routes to be adapted for people with reduced mobility or not. The option "Only routes with not accessible floor changes" should only be used if you want your users to avoid elevators. | Route types |
| Ignore low quality locations | If enabled, Situm will not use locations to update the route (visualization, instructions, etc.) unless they have a minimum quality. The main effect is that poor quality locations will not cause an spurious re-routing. | We recommend to enable, but being careful. The experience will be more robust in general. However, if the positioning quality of your building is low (in general or in some areas), important geolocations may be missed and the wayfinding experience will be harmed. | Deeper explanation: Re-routing |
| Minimize floor changes | If enabled, this option forces the choosing of routes with the minimum ammount of floor changes required, even if they take a bit longer than other route options. | We recommend to enable it. Minimizing the floor changes is the natural behaviour that the user expects, so this option enhances the user experience in general. In addition, in most buildings the shortest routes are also those that involve less floor changes, so this option will not do any harm in general. | Minimizing floor changes |
| Use routes to adjust location | If enabled, the route that the user is following will influence the location computed. In a way, the route will "attract" the location, because the user is supposed to be following it to a certain degree. | We recommend to enable it, but begin careful. The experience will be more robust and visually appealing in general. However, take into account that if the user goes out-of-route on purpose, Situm will take a bit longer than usual to realize about this, and therefore to recompute a new route. | Deeper explanation: Re-routing |
Advanced Settings
The Advanced Settings will be displayed if you click on the "Advanced Settings" drawer.
| Settings | Description | Recommendation | Useful links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Distance to next indication | Distance (in meters) within which the user is considered to have arrived at the next step in the route. Upon this arrival, the next indication will be shown. | Small Building: 4 m (default) Mid-sized Building: 6 m Big Building: 8 m | Deeper explanation in Turn-by-turn indications. |
| Distance to change floor | Similar option to "Distance to next indication". Distance (in meters) within which the user is considered to have arrived at the next step in the route, when this step is a floor change. Upon this arrival, the next indication (a floor change instruction) will be shown. | Small Building: 5 m (default) Mid-sized Building: 8 m Big Building: 12 m | Deeper explanation in Turn-by-turn indications. |
| Distance to arrive destination | Distance (in meters) within which the user is considered to have arrived at the end of the route. | Small Building: 5 m (default) Mid-sized Building: 8 m Big Building: 12 m | Deeper explanation in The basics: start route, wayfinding, arrival. |
| Indications interval | If a new indication will be shown to the user (e.g. because he has advanced on the route), minimum time (in seconds) that Situm will wait between the last instruction and this new one. | Small Building: 0 s (default) Mid-sized Building: 3 s Big Building: 3 s | Deeper explanation in The basics: start route, wayfinding, arrival. |
| Outside Route Threshold | Minimum distance (in meters) between the user location and the route to consider that the user has gone off route. | Small Building: 7 m Mid-sized Building: 10 m Big Building: 15 m (default) | Deeper explanation in Re-routing. |
| Round indications | In the Go Ahead type of indications, distances will be rounded up to this value (in meters) | Small Building: 0 m (default) Mid-sized Building: 5 m Big Building: 10 m | Deeper explanation in Turn-by-turn indications. |
| Time to return the first indication | Time that Situm waits to return the first indication after the first location is computed. | Small Building: 0 s (default) Mid-sized Building: 3 s Big Building: 3 s | Deeper explanation in Turn-by-turn indications. |
| Time to ignore unexpected plant changes | Time (in seconds) that Situm waits to re-compute the route when the user goes off-route due to an unexpected floor change (according to the route). | Small Building: 20 s (default) Mid-sized Building: 20 s Big Building: 20 s | Deeper explanation in Turn-by-turn indications. |
