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Navigation & Routing
Point-to-point navigation with spoken, turn-by-turn guidance. Every route is calculated by the on-board DMD Router engine, so routing works offline — and you choose the routing profile, from fastest tarmac to hard offroad.
- Routing Engine
- DMD Router — on-board, works offline
- Start a Nav
- Search, long-press the map, a Favorite, a GPX route / waypoint, or a place shared from another app
- Routing Profiles
- Road Fast / Fun, Match Any Road, Offroad Easy / Medium / Hard, Advanced Adventure
- Guidance
- Turn-by-turn instructions + voice, with ETA & distance
Navigating — the route drawn on the map, the next turn top-right, and your position following the line.
Starting a Navigation
There are several ways to pick a destination — whichever you use, DMD2 calculates the route and starts guiding you:
Search
The Search button (Section 3) opens Location Search — type an address, place name or paste coordinates, or browse categories like Fuel, Restaurant and Accommodation. Every hit in the result list is also dropped on the map as a blue dot — tap a dot to open that place’s details, exactly like tapping its list entry.
Long-Press the Map
Long-press any point on the map to open its info bubble, then choose Navigate To to route there.
A Favorite Location
Tap a saved location on the Home Favorite Locations row to navigate straight to it.
A GPX Route or Waypoint
Open a loaded route or waypoint and choose Navigate To. Covered in the GPX guide.
Location Search — type a destination or paste coordinates, browse POI categories, or pick from your saved and HUB locations. While a result list is open, its entries show as blue dots on the map; tapping a dot opens the location’s details.
Turn-by-Turn Instructions
While navigating, the instruction card sits in the top corner of the map. It always shows what to do next:
- Next maneuver — a large arrow, the instruction (“Turn left”) and the distance to it. The card draws attention as the turn gets close.
- “then…” — a small preview of the maneuver after the next one, so quick pairs of turns don't surprise you.
- Distance & ETA — the flag line shows remaining distance to your destination and your estimated arrival time. Tap the time itself to flip every time on the card between arrival time and remaining travel time — a short Arrival / Remaining label flashes so you know which you’re looking at. The compact pill and the portrait progress bar follow the same choice.
- Tap the card — tapping the instruction card itself opens Navigation Options, which is also where you stop navigating (route colour, profile, route info, Finish Navigation).
Rich On-Road Detail
Where the map data supports it, instructions are enriched with:
- Lane guidance — a lane strip shows which lane(s) to be in at complex junctions.
- Roundabouts — which exit to take is announced and drawn (“take the 2nd exit”).
- Road names — the road you turn onto is named in the instruction and voice prompt (e.g. “Turn left onto Main Street”).
- Motorway exits — exit numbers and signage are surfaced where available.
Voice Guidance
Spoken prompts announce each maneuver as you approach it — the same wording you see on the instruction card, so screen and voice stay in step. Balance the navigation voice against your music in Settings → Audio.
Language
Prompts are spoken in your device’s language — the same language the instruction card is written in. Nothing to configure: change the Android system language and the voice follows on the next start.
Distances follow the voice too, so a German device hears “1,5 Kilometer” and an English one “1.5 kilometers”.
Languages with translated prompts: English, German, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Norwegian. Any other system language uses English prompts and an English voice.
Navigation Options
Tap the instruction card to open the Navigation Options panel:
Navigation Options, opened from the instruction card.
Route Color
Pick the colour of the route line on the map — it persists across reroutes.
Routing Profile
Shows the current profile (e.g. Road Fast). Change Profile re-routes with a different style — see Routing Profiles.
Route Points & Info
Route Points lists your via-points; Route Info shows the route summary (distance, ascent, surface breakdown).
Weather / Warnings On Route
Check the forecast — and weather / wildfire warnings — at points along your route before you set off. In mainland Portugal it also lists the official IPMA weather warnings and fire-danger levels for the districts you cross. See also the Warnings guide.
You don’t need a route to open it. With nothing navigating, the panel shows Warnings Where You Are instead — whatever applies at your own position right now. When you do have a route, that block sits at the top, above the along-the-route sections.
This panel opens with or without a license: the country modules are free, and this is the only screen that names the zones a warning covers. A license adds the per-stop forecast and the worldwide fire list — see Free vs. Licensed.
Measure Distances
Every distance is measured along the route, never as the crow flies: total length, start → you and you → end while you’re riding it, plus two tap modes — Two Point (tap two points on the line for the distance between them, highlighted on the map) and Single Point (tap one point for its distance to the start, the end and to you).
Save as GPX File
Save the active route to a GPX file you can reopen, share or ride again later — it’s added to your GPX list.
Routing Profiles
The routing profile decides what kind of route DMD Router builds. Open it from Navigation Options → Change Profile:
The routing profiles and Recalculate — road options such as No Tolls sit just below the list.
Road Fast
Fastest route on paved roads.
Road Fun
Scenic, curvy roads — favours the enjoyable line over the quick one.
Match Any Road
Shortest way on any road or trail, paved or not — no preference between them. The same profile the Planner uses when converting a track to a route, so those routes reroute in the app exactly as planned. In the app it routes fully legal by default; its Legality Overrides can additionally allow private roads, special-permission roads, gates & barriers, and foot/bike paths — the Planner defaults to all of them allowed.
Offroad Easy / Medium / Hard
Three grades of unpaved routing — from easy trails to challenging offroad terrain. Easy additionally steers clear of very rough surfaces on its own.
Advanced Adventure
Fully customizable adventure routing — fine-tune exactly what the route prefers and avoids.
Road Options
Under the profiles, toggle options such as No Tolls and No Motorways, or avoid certain road classes. Advanced Adventure adds scenic preferences — Prefer Forests / Rivers / Unpaved and Avoid Cities / Ferries / Private Roads. Tap Recalculate to rebuild the route with your choices.
Terrain & Legality (Offroad & Advanced Adventure)
The Offroad profiles and Advanced Adventure share a set of rider options. Avoid Barriers & Gates and Avoid Fords / Water Crossings are on by default and are soft avoids — the route steers around them as much as possible, but a destination or via point beyond one still routes through it. 4WD Tracks Priority prefers tracks tagged for four-wheel-drive when choosing between trails. The legality overrides — Route on Private Roads, Route on Special Permission Roads and Route on Foot & Bike Paths — open road classes that are otherwise only used as a last resort. The same options exist in the HUB Planner, and routes carry them inside their profile, so a route plans, previews and reroutes identically everywhere.
Along the Route
Off-Route & Reroute
Wander off the line and DMD2 recalculates a fresh route from where you are — keeping your chosen profile and route colour. Rerouting always looks forward: it rejoins your planned route at the next point ahead of you, never back at the spot you left. A navigation you started always reroutes — riding along a loaded GPX track or route doesn’t pause it, and it keeps working no matter how far from the planned line you’ve wandered.
Arrival
On reaching your destination an arrival notice appears and guidance ends cleanly.
Speed & Camera Warnings
Speed-limit signs and speed-camera alerts show while navigating — detailed in the Warnings guide.
Weather & Fire Alerts
DMD2 can flag weather and wildfire hazards along your route — also covered in the Warnings guide.
Next Waypoint
When the GPX you’re riding carries waypoints, a line shows the next one ahead — its name, distance and arrival time (or remaining travel time — tap any time on the card to flip) — alongside its proximity alert.
Next Priority Waypoint
Star a waypoint as an objective — a checkpoint, a fuel stop, tonight’s hotel — and a second, amber line keeps its distance on screen while the line above carries on counting down the ordinary waypoints. See Priority Waypoints.
Off-Route Choices
Following a GPX route — or a navigation with stops along the way — brings up You are off route with three options:
- ReRoute To Line — rejoin your planned route further along and carry on following it. The original route stays exactly as you planned it.
- ReRoute To Next Point — skip the point you missed and navigate on to the next one.
- Do Not Reroute — leave you to it. You won’t be asked again until you’re back on the route.
A 10 second bar counts down and confirms the highlighted option, so you never have to take a hand off the bars. Out of the box that’s ReRoute To Line — the choice that leaves your planned route untouched — and whatever you pick instead becomes the default from then on. If the map isn’t on screen when you go off route, DMD Next applies that default for you rather than waiting. Rejoin the route under your own steam and the reroute clears itself.
If Route Calculation Fails
A navigation you started is never silently dropped. When a route calculation or recalculation can’t complete — no road near your position, no coverage, no connection — a Route Calculation Failed notice appears on the progress card with three choices:
- Change Profile — open the routing profile picker and try the calculation with a different profile.
- OK — dismiss the notice. Your navigation stays active, and DMD Next keeps retrying automatically as you move — get closer to a road and the route simply appears.
- End Navigation — stop the navigation.
If a recalculation fails mid-ride, you keep being guided on the previous route until a new one succeeds. Left untouched, the notice dismisses itself after 60 seconds — nothing is ended for you. And whenever a navigation is active but you’re away from its line, the card shows an Off Route line with your distance back to it, so the navigation is never invisible.
Continue Reading
Next up — GPX Tracks, Routes & Waypoints: import, manage and record GPX, and navigate a track.
GPX Tracks, Routes & Waypoints Map Overview