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I absolutely love Locus but there's loads of features I never use. I quite agree that the current business model isn't sustainable: there's continual development work which is only funded by new users and Locus Store customers.
I don't think that individual paid-for modules is a very good business model either. The fewer users they appeal to, the higher the price you'll end up having to set for individual modules and the fewer users will buy them.


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I have reworked my Voluntary & Velocity themes for the Locus new map core alpha release. Download the attachment, unzip it and add to your Locus themes directory. You should find two new themes appear for v4 maps: Voluntary Mapsforge Alpha and Velocity Alpha. They are intended to be as similar as practicable to my previous Voluntary and Velocity themes.
They are aware of the change to tile size and scaling and the zoom level at which map items appear. However they will not be totally consistent across screens with different resolutions. Locus enhancements are naturally absent and sore missed.

Edit: The latest development version of my themes has moved to the beta topic  here.

I have New Point enabled in the side menu.
1. Move map to location of interest. Tap on New Point. Note Save is on top bar of new screen, so should be safe to back out of this screen. Back out. New point saved at current location and map moves there. Lose place of interest. Not what I wanted at all. Bug.
2. Move map to location of interest. Tap on New Point. Fail to note that middle of screen says Current Location (not Map Centre). Save. New point saved at current location and map moves there. Lose place of interest. Not what I wanted at all. Either should remember previous user choice or default to Map Centre.

Conceptually this relates to the discussion of "nearest" above. The question is "Where are you interested in" - where the map is showing or where you are physically. Using the model of paper maps, if you are using a map you are *always* interested in where the map is showing.

No, we're not talking about the same thing. Locus-specific themes have a command scale-text-size which scales the text as the map is zoomed. There is no equivalent command for MF V4. Previously, if the map (and text) was at 75% of a zoom level, tapping the zoom + button restores the map (and text) to 100%.

My problem with scaling is that if I have adjusted the zoom with two fingers and end up with a display of, say, 75% of a certain zoom level, the text may be quite difficult to read. Tapping the zoom + button goes to the next zoom level, but still at 75% and leaves the text too small because the MF v4 renderer can't scale text (which the Locus renderer can do).


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Though place names are loads better in the new MF v4 renderer, quite a few are still truncated. Can this be improved?

Also, in previous versions, zooming by means of buttons "locked" to 100% scaling,  which seemed quite good to me. In this alpha, that is no longer the case. Is this intentional?

Is there going to be a way of programmatically cleaning bits of old themes from the _themes directory? Or will it depend on use of a file manager? I'm thinking of what happens if I change the file structure of the themes I make available.

Aha! I have a back up directory that Locus didn't access previously but does now. Solved. Thanks.

Now:
- Only offers v3 themes if LoMaps or MF v3 map is chosen - OK
- Offers v4 themes PLUS "ghost" themes if MF v4 map is chosen - as posted before at https://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=6471.msg54862#msg54862.
I'm referring to the external themes with the ghosted map icon. They appear to be duplicates in some way.

There appears to be a 3d perspective view in the new alpha. I don't know how I turned it on, nor how to turn it off.

SO new setup of system:
V3 maps: offer V3 (basic + locus-extended) themes
V4+ maps: offer V4+ themes

Isn't that exactly what we have on the current (Pro) release?

I would agree about not offering V4 themes for V3 maps. The scaling doesn't work. Caption position appears not to be supported, though that could be sorted, I guess. There may be other points but I've not looked closely.
That deals with my point 2. As far as my point 1 is concerned, I don't know what the ghosted themes represent. Are they folder names?

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1. Why are there ghosted themes (originally for MF v4 maps, now for MF v3 as well)?
2. MF v4 themes are not optimised for MF v3 maps not do they look the same as on V4 maps - is this to be improved?

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Hmm. Deleted that file, restarted phone. Same results, which do not reflect my usage recently or from the start of using Locus. File reappears as 915 bytes with today's date.

Edit: the same file is also shared by Locus Pro, which reads it correctly.

My issues so far are resolved.
Maps Manager / Smart Choice / Online / Most Used seems stuck and gives the wrong maps.

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