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[@T-mo]

It's time to release a version with some news ... so be it: https://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=8743.0

@T-mo
full-screen mode is in expert settings because it is problematic and not reliable. We'll look at it.

Routing data downloader - I do not perfectly understand what you want to update.
 - update of segments when "Auto-update" is disabled does not work for you?
 - routing data per degree > why this? Are current files too big? This is anyway technically complicated and I see no benefit.
 - update time per element > what does it mean?

@Andrew Heard
Interesting, I'm playing with it and for me, size of offline LoPoints is really controlled by the "LoPoint icon size" option. Interesting... 

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23. 1. 2024 - Locus 4.21.0

Seeing a track in a 3D environment would for sure be great, especially useful if it was possible in track planner.

@Andrew, ah, Lopoints offline.

Re: minor roads still visible despite road network off. I put them back in for some reason. A reason I forgot. I'll think about it.

Re: place names still visible: A lot of attractions captions are visible in lower zooms, need some love.

Suburb display: I think I'll include military area captions (that's in your screenshot), since they are a kind of village.

Please try the xml on my Github, it has some changes.

I can only speak for myself.

Most changes I do on Android, with QuickEdit+. I make edits on an extra file /_themes/Tapiola.xml, which I then copy (Totalcmd) into /_themes/Tapiola.zip/Tapiola/Tapiola.xml - then re-apply theme in Locus for testing.

On PC, far better overview, code folding etc. I use (MS Visual Studio) Codium. Sometimes PSPad. I copy the xml with Totalcmd/Android (accessing a Windows share) into the zip file.

No, no specific theme editor.

Yes. Every syntax error results in a blank display. Reminds me of my Perl job years ago. Syntax error results in http/500, internal server error.

having a super boring theme showing no points, names or features than other roads, would allow those searched points to be highly visible.

You probably know this is possible in Tapiola ("Basic features without POI" has this use case in mind). And I had a related suggestion, but IIRC Menion disagreed: Add Offline/Online Lopoi setting to presets. Because then you can easily a) turn on the theme (which displays no poi at all) + b) turn on lopoi.

Bike parking is currently in the POIs for both Lomaps and OAM, which seems quite reasonable to me.

Well, amenity=bicycle_park is included in the online/offline POI, but I understand and added it to the tag-mapping file.

@voldapet, a few of us themers were asked recently by Andrew Heard if we could display amenity=bicycle_park, i.e. somewhere to park/lock up you bicycle.

Currently this is not included in the LoMap tagmapping. Would it be possible to include it?

We can always ask Voldapet and Christian if they would add bicycle parking to the maps. I think OAM would as they promote using OAM for hiking and cycling.

A quick test showed me that amenity=bicycle_parking is not included in OAM...

And (2015): https://www.openandromaps.org/oam-forums/topic/inclusion-of-bicycle_parking

EDIT: Haha, lol - you kept 3 theme authors busy with this 😁

@Zajdlik
I decided not to do that as it would vastly inflate the size of the theme. The code required to display just one marker is a large proportion of the theme already. Thanks for your understanding.
Edit: It does look like the colours of the small squares could be modified to make them more visible. I'll add that to my list.
Edit2: The visibility of the small squares has now been significantly improved.

@Andrew
Do I see in another post that bicycle parking is not included in the offline maps themselves, so it can't be displayed in any offline theme?

As far as a I know, amenity=bicycle_parking tags are not available in either LoMap or OAM maps.

I suspect the Web-based router planners are using OSM map data directly and so show all available tags on the map rendering.

BTW the red P symbol in my theme represents private parking

Latest update removes a workaround that is unnecessary with the latest maps. This now gives a better display if a bike or hike route runs along a major road.
Download and install from https://voluntary.nichesite.org

These are the news:
- The OAM background from ZL 8 and up now is rendered from the December 2023 edition of Christian's OAM vector maps (except Near East, for which the OSM vandalism repair is still ongoing - status there is Sept. 2023).
- In ZL 5 to 7 country borders are shown in red, while regions (in Russia), states (in US) and provinces - Settlement rendering was updated from 2021 state uo current, after a number of corrections and cleanups. If you spot something that went wrong, pls. let me know. Thank you.