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Hello Menion, this change was introduced in version 4.35:

" chg: the auto-pause and 'Record only when moving' options are now a single 'Movement detection' setting (record continuously / drop points whilst stopped / auto-pause)"

I've been testing 'auto-pause' for the first time over the last few days. In principle, it works perfectly, but:

I've noticed that there are numerous gaps in my recorded tracks, even though I haven't taken any breaks. At least, none that I would describe as such. 😉 The reason is that even a very brief stop triggers the pause. I checked it out and it happens after just about 15 seconds! That means briefly reading a sign, taking a photo, tying your shoelaces, waiting at a traffic light, etc. – all of these are interpreted as a pause. And suddenly I've got a gap in my track. In my opinion, that's not the point of the feature.

I'd suggest increasing the time limit to at least one or two minutes – the point at which you can actually call it a proper break.

What do you (or the others) think?

Yeah, I also noticed the trigger time to be rather short. Not sure about 15s, but it any case should be customizable.

Reproducible bug observed in 4.35.0.8:
In track editor, "Insert/Edit trackpoint" will remove all gaps in the editable area.

- fix: (SILVER) map overlay panel showed "No map selected" after turning the overlay switch off and back on

Confirmed, thx!

Just noticed that Map Overlays are not stored anymore when turning off:
Previously, I could turn off overlay and then turn it on again, and the previous overlay was restored.
Now, everytime I turn overlay on, I have to select the overlay I want again. Quite annoying. Not sure, with which version that started, though.

Great new version! Haven't seen that many great new features in one version in a while!

One observation:
It's great that the charts can now be zoomed in up to 100m sections. However, the markers at the bottom are still at minimum 0.2km distance, so in higher zoom you loose track of where you are. The marker at the current position at least has 0.1km accuracy, although in this case it would be nice to go down to 1m accuracy. Same for Time on X-Axis: Could show seconds for high zooms.

Oh, one more thing: When I pan the track such that the marker should move out on one side, it stays at the edge. Which would be ok, but the flyout still shows the values from before starting the pan. The screenshot shows additional problems: Flyout overlaying the "Zoom 100%" button and the tick marker on the X axis having "..."

Generally, I think the "Zoom 100%" button should be moved to the +/- buttons - it makes no sense to have that on each charts separately, as all zoom together anyway.

Great new version! Haven't seen that many great new features in one version in a while!

One observation:
It's great that the charts can now be zoomed in up to 100m sections. However, the markers at the bottom are still at minimum 0.2km distance, so in higher zoom you loose track of where you are. The marker at the current position at least has 0.1km accuracy, although in this case it would be nice to go down to 1m accuracy. Same for Time on X-Axis: Could show seconds for high zooms.

"REORDER SECTIONS"

Maybe this way: 

I like the idea of being able to choose what's displayed. It's also good that you can move it around.
I'll select everything except "Interval," maybe in a different order.

But when I look at the chart, everything above it gets in the way.
You should be able to hide it temporarily. Then there would just be the chart and the map. I drew a button behind the word "Chart."
That lets you hide everything above it.
But when I open the track, everything should be displayed. Then, if I want to take a closer look at the chart, I'll hide everything above it.

I think that's too specific - much better would be to be able to toggle/move all sections (also statistics) to define your favorite way the popup appears, as I describe in my post above. Including the line indicating what to show immediately and what on scroll-up.
One can dream, right? 

I'm also very much in favor of
a) Adding the photos to the "Reorder Sections" dialog (which probably means "Statistics" become explicit section, too)
b) Being able to hide section in that dialog (e.g. I *never ever* need intervals because I don't do that kind of training)
c) Being able to choose which sections are show immediately on select and which only by pull-up. Perhaps the reorder dialog could have a divider which can be put after first, second, or third entry; so e.g. you could customize it to only show title (always) and statistics, leaving more space for map.

While we're at it:
- Is "Line style" really necessary in the Details? I mean, I see the line style on the map, and unlike "Folder" I can't do anything here. Imho would only make sense if that was a direct link to the edit line style dialog.
- Similar with "Activity" - it's of interest, but being able to change activity directly there would be nice.
- Lastly, I also like Google Map's ability to copy the name of a POI by simple long tap on the title. That would be great for Locus tracks and POIs - right now, you need to do "Edit" > Long-Tap somewhere in title > Tap "Select All" > Tap "Copy"

EDIT: About the Details: Thinking about it again, the "Activity" is also duplicate, we already have the icon in the top-left. That could be made clickable to show a selection menu which a) gives you the name of the activity, and b) allows quick change.
Then "Folder" could become it's own section.
Now we only need a ">" to the right of "Description", directly opening the "Edit" dialog, and the whole track popup would have consistent design.

First of all: Great list of new features and fixes, thx!

One question:

• Track chart pinch-zoom now goes all the way down to 1 km / 1 minute on any track length (Premium).

Is there a reason the minimum distance is still 1km? Comparably, that is much less ability to zoom in than when choosing time, where 1min makes sense, I think. But for slow activities like hiking, I think 100m would be much more helpful (which is roughly what you're walking in 1min normal speed).
I see that for long tracks like car rides this might slow down the panning, so the minimum might be made dependent on track length again, e.g. 100m for <=10km, 200m for <=20km, 500m for <=50km, 1km >50km

@menion Last week I reported that under "unknown circumstances" the track chart would zoom instead of pan, while using a single finger drag. I now have a screen video of it. Maybe it requires the X-axis to be time instead of distance, or to have a gap/ pause in the recording? In the video I tap +/zoom once, then single tap-drag to try to pan but you can clearly see it zoom instead. The tap position is faintly visible.

https://youtube.com/shorts/2y-jXB_XU5I

Yeah, I can confirm that and also reported sth similar recently: The charts don't seem to be able to move consistently over pauses/gaps - instead when dragging, for a while the zoom changes, until the end of the gap is reached and the chart snaps to there. I don't see any good reason why the gaps should have any effect on dragging at all, so to me this is a bug.

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@slarti76
I'm probably still confused. All seems to work correctly to me.
My situation: current GPS location in Prague, search for "Kyiv" clearly displays 1130km to the east. Arrow correctly rotates as I rotate with the phone. App Settings > Miscellaneous> Default search/sort location settings have no effect here. GPS or the last known location is always used in the search screen.

Do you have the same experience?

Yeah, sorry, wrote in my last post that I finally realized it's always current location + phone rotation. As Andrew writes, one can argue about what's more intuitive. But I now agree there's no obvious bug here, so let's leave it at that, more important things...

Track editor > check on changes is already wired on the Back button click. I'll improve it, thanks ... and sorry 

Apology acdcepted Thx!

Ok, tbh, I'm a little bit angry now: I just spent 30min editing a track and then did what I always did: Tap "X" in the upper left corner, because all edits are saved immediately, right? Well, I didn't see the new "Save" button (and the changelog entry "track editor now saves the track after user confirmation"), which is a great idea, absolutely!
But simply undoing all edits without asking the user on a single tap??? Sorry, that's an absolute no-go!
Please add a user confirmation here! Thx.

I think, it depends on the vertikal and horizontal orientation of the phone, the arrows turns depending on both.

Now I get it: It's not screen orientation, it's phone orientation! They arrows actually turn when I rotate the phone. I guess that makes sense for closer destinations, not so much looking for a far away city. 

The main misunderstanding is that I'm thinking "planning", but the actual purpose is "on the road".
I think ideal would be to have two modes:

• On the road: As now, direction from current location, using phone orientation
• Planning: From current map center, using static compass directions

But I admit, probably too much effort for small detail...

Testing and thinking about it:

When the map is locked in "north up", the search should also respect that and show the arrow with respect to north up. (To be consistent with the map shown)

When map rotation is on, then the search should behave like it does now.

I think, this would resolve most of the confusion. Search should simply behave like the actual behavior of the map

Greetings, Ulrich

Very good idea! +1

I think, it depends on the vertikal and horizontal orientation of the phone, the arrows turns depending on both.

Now I get it: It's not screen orientation, it's phone orientation! They arrows actually turn when I rotate the phone. I guess that makes sense for closer destinations, not so much looking for a far away city. 

The main misunderstanding is that I'm thinking "planning", but the actual purpose is "on the road".
I think ideal would be to have two modes:

• On the road: As now, direction from current location, using phone orientation
• Planning: From current map center, using static compass directions

But I admit, probably too much effort for small detail...

- fix: direction arrow in search/MyLibrary now always hardware to display proper orientation

Cannot confirm Now, being based in Zurich, search e.g. for Warsaw shows an arrow pointing to NNW - and Warsaw is clearly east. I did some other searches, and there doesn't seem to be a consistent pattern (like 90° rotation or the like). Distance seems correct, tho.