Offline Navigation for Drivers Beyond Network Coverage

Keep your fleet on track with offline turn-by-turn navigation and rerouting, even when connectivity drops.

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Offline Navigation, Designed for Real-World Connectivity Challenges

Offline Routing and Rerouting

Calculate routes and reroute on the device using downloaded regional routing data, helping drivers stay on track without an internet connection.

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Dispatch Optimized Routes

Plan optimized route for commercial vehicles using 50+ constraints and dispatch to the driver app for offline navigation.

Offline Map View & Matching

Match GPS positions to the road network using local routing data, helping keep the driver's location aligned with the road while offline.

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Hybrid Navigation

Choose online, offline or hybrid routing modes to suit changing connectivity and your application's navigation requirements.

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Industry Specific Use Cases

Logistics and Freight Transportation

Support drivers on remote highways and rural freight routes with downloaded maps and navigation that continues through mobile coverage gaps.

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Retail and Last-Mile Delivery

Help delivery drivers follow routes to known stops in areas with unreliable connectivity, using maps and routing data prepared before departure.

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Fleet Management Platforms

Offer offline navigation through your platform’s driver app, giving customers access to route guidance within downloaded regions even when mobile connectivity drops.

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How to Use the Offline Navigation SDKs

Explore step-by-step guides and a reference application to configure routing modes, download regional data and add offline navigation to your driver app.

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Frequently asked questions

Features

NextBillion.ai’s Offline Navigation helps businesses keep drivers on track in remote locations and areas with unreliable connectivity. Using map and routing data stored on the device, driver applications can display maps, calculate routes and provide navigation within downloaded regions, even without an internet connection.

Offline maps let drivers view downloaded map content, while offline navigation uses local routing data to calculate routes and match GPS positions to the road network. NextBillion.ai supports both, helping drivers navigate within downloaded regions without an internet connection.
Talk to our experts to explore how offline maps and navigation can support your business and integrate into your existing driver applications.

Yes. GPS determines a device’s location using satellite signals, so it can work without mobile data or Wi-Fi. Once the required maps and regional routing data are downloaded, NextBillion.ai’s Offline Navigation can display the driver’s location, provide directions and recalculate routes within those regions without an internet connection. Location services must remain enabled, and the device needs a usable GPS signal to determine its position.

Yes. Routes can be calculated on the device using downloaded regional routing data. The required routing data must be available locally before an offline route request can succeed.

Yes. NextBillion.ai supports automatic rerouting using downloaded regional data. If a driver deviates from the planned route, guidance can be recalculated without an internet connection within the available offline coverage.

Offline map matching aligns GPS positions with the road network using local routing data. This helps keep the driver’s displayed location aligned with the road while mobile connectivity is unavailable.

Yes. Applications can choose online-only, offline-only or hybrid routing strategies. Hybrid configurations can prioritize online or offline routing, or select from available sources. Offline fallback requires the relevant routing data and offline engine to be ready.

Download both map tiles for offline display and regional routing data for route calculation and navigation. Confirm that both datasets are ready for the regions drivers will travel through before connectivity becomes unavailable.

Yes. Applications can offer regional downloads and recommend regions near a location or along a planned route. This helps drivers prepare offline data for their service territory or upcoming journey.

Storage requirements depend on the selected regions. The SDK provides estimated download sizes for routing data and map tiles, allowing your application to show storage requirements before a download begins.

Yes. Applications can provide controls to pause and resume supported downloads, cancel transfers and delete downloaded regional data. These controls help drivers manage downloads and free up device storage when regions are no longer needed.

Applications can check for available updates after refreshing the region catalog. Updated map and routing datasets can then be downloaded while connected, keeping the locally stored data current.

Offline route calculation requires routing data covering the requested journey. If that data is missing, an offline-only request cannot succeed. A configured hybrid strategy may use online routing when connectivity is available.

Live traffic and incident updates require connectivity. While offline, drivers can continue navigating and rerouting using downloaded data, but newly reported congestion or road closures cannot be received until a connection is available.

Yes. Fleet management platforms can integrate NextBillion.ai’s Navigation SDK into their driver apps, adding regional downloads, offline map display, route calculation and hybrid routing to their existing navigation experience.

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