Navigation
Chargetrip navigation allows you to build a complete turn-by-turn experience for electric vehicles based on Chargetrip calculated routes. It takes a Chargetrip route and turns it into instructions you can use inside a dedicated turn-by-turn or active guidance product from navigation companies like Mapbox, Here, or TomTom. Furthermore, it allows you to subscribe to a route and query that route during an active turn-by-turn session for route updates.
It is essential to note the difference between navigation instructions and a turn-by-turn or active guidance user experience. Chargetrip Navigation provides the raw instructions to render a turn-by-turn experience using a turn-by-turn provider. It does not provide UI elements.
Our navigation instructions are currently in beta and, therefore, experimental. Features may change, break, or disappear at any time. Creating a turn-by-turn experience requires significant development effort, and turn-by-turn SDKs can be very expensive. An alternative to offering a native turn-by-turn experience in your driver application is to hand over a calculated route to a navigation app already installed on your user's device, such as Google Maps, Apple Maps, or Waze. You can create a deeplink using our waypoints as query parameters in the URL. Please take a look at the documentation of your target navigation app or reach out to your customer success manager; we're happy to help. An example of a handover can be seen on go.chargetrip.com in the journey overview.