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An hour for 23 km of hiking is optimistic. Router is BRouter classic. I just use a profile for shortest ways because I decide where to go (locus-reroute.brf), strange estimation because of the profile?

BTW after "Recalculate all" it displays all navigation commands.

I can't confirm this. No problems when adding a photo to a point. Works as always.

Works now as well. A temporary hiccup, idk.

I think it's about attached photos for points.

Ah OK, I don't use them. But I noticed adding an attachment (jpg file) to a point doesn't work.
I hope Menion still considers showing a bigger preview, as discussed, for geotagged photo display.

Thx - "Completely new image gallery" - where?

Menion, one thing to consider. If navigation is already active and we press the "Navigate" button in sidebar, the current ui makes no sense I guess. I think it should start the route editor in "re-route" mode (like when you click re-route on a track). Or stop nav,idk.

Also dislike a countdown. IMO everything (point menu, sidebar command) need a quick and a careful planning NAVTO.

My ideal Locus would offer this:

Point menu:
a) Navigate to (plan in background. start nav directly!)
b) Plan navigation to...(Start route planner with pre-set endpoint, maybe gps starting point)

IMO here in Menions layout the difference between navto and plan nav to is too small.

Sidebar, a new command:
a) Navigate to screen center. Again, no intermediate planner. Start at GPS, turn it on.
b) Just the normal Route planner. Because "plan navigation" is just that + a button in route planner to start nav.

Zunächst: Von wo kommst Du - aus dem Punktmenü oder rufst Du "Navigate to" aus der Seitenleiste auf? 100% zufrieden bin ich auch noch nicht.

2. Navigate to (as it currently works)
3. Plan route to

IMO there's no difference between 2 and 3 which justifies another menu entry. Would be rather confusing.

- The clock guiding notation mode is already known in Locus map for many years.

WAIT WUT WHERE

Maybe you're right.

For sure he is right. 3 times clicking "Navigate please" is not fully fleshed out UI. IMO You either choose "Plan route to" and expect all route planning options in the process. If you want to go the short way, with "Navigate to" you can expect it to start a navigation instantly.

I recommend therefore to rename the menu if that is the concept:

1. Navigate to
2. Plan navigation to

In case of 1., start from GPS position and turn GPS on if necessary.

A simple concept and easy to understand. I also never use guidance.

Heavy changes there, IMO WIP. In the most recent Playstore version there is a menu with "Plan route to" and "Navigate to".

The latter auto creates a route in the route planner. I agree, this should happen totally in the background, otherwise the user would have clicked "Plan route to".

Currently,in the screenshot menu, we decide what we want. But eg after using "Navigate to", followed by another click on a navigation button (top of the route planner), Locus once again asks if guidance or navigation is wanted. That's still not perfect. You tell Locus 3 times that you want to navigate.

Aside from that, that menu is a great thing.

Ok, you should have added that.
I hardly ever use it, so I don't care. But it might be more useful there than with (photo) points

Absolutely because if I walk in an area I once was I could quickly review the photos I took in the area.
Quickly is the point here because out in the wild I don't want to tap a lot. Eg. sometimes I remake photos from the same spot I once was, an easy way to look at a picture is helpful. And currently the bottom panel as in my screenshot above just wastes the space which could be used for the photo.

I don't see any need for changes here.

Geotagged photos. They're screaming for this change.

The preview larger....yes and no. Then I see less of the other information

But think about it, do you tap a picture to see it? Or to read the address and what else is there... I am convinced primary use case is to see the picture. And its dedicated view is not fun. You cannot directly go to another one.
Yes I'm aware about rotation, pictures aspect ratio etc. It's solvable.

When tapping an image, the primary interest is to view the image. I think if it initially came up with a bigger preview this would already be good enough for previewing. The tiny preview not so much What do you think? I suggest full width stretch (and cut top/bottom to keep initial panel size predictable). IMO this would make picture viewing a much better experience! It's currently a bit lacking and clunky.