Qalasi builds a walk that is prettier than the fastest route without costing you much more time. Four settings in Profile control how it does that. This page explains what each one does, and how they work together.
The hard limit - the most stops a route can ever have, including ones you add yourself by tapping the map. Set it to 8 and you can never end up with 9.
How many stops Qalasi picks for you automatically when it first builds the route. You can still add more afterwards by hand, up to the hard limit above.
How much extra walking time you are willing to spend.
What counts as scenic. Parks, gardens, squares, sights and historic landmarks are on by default. Museums, galleries, monuments, viewpoints, marinas and hiking areas are there if you want them. At least one kind stays selected - with none there would be nothing to route through.
Say your walk is 20 minutes direct. You set aim for 8 stops and How scenic to Balanced, which allows about 60% longer - so 32 minutes.
Qalasi finds 8 nice places and builds the route. It comes to 45 minutes, over your 32. So it drops the stop that pulls furthest off the path and tries again: 38 minutes, still over. It drops another. Now 30 minutes - that fits. You get 6 stops, not 8.
So aim for is what Qalasi tries for, and How scenic is what it is allowed to spend. How scenic always wins.
Almost always because the walk was short. A 10-minute walk on Balanced allows only a few minutes of detour, so there is little room for stops no matter how many you asked for.
Two things help: set How scenic to Wander, which buys more time for detours, or turn on more Kinds of places so there are more candidates near your path.
Qalasi · Javid Rzayev (Germany) · hello@qalasi.com
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