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It doesn't help directly as the question is for the (online) Web Planner, but using Android LM4 you can choose/ experiment with a 3rd party mapping theme. If you are adventurous you have full control over the color of everything on the map. But the learning curve is huge & outside scope of this topic.

Thank you. Just not enough time in the day and I sleep too much

Incidentally when I was doing a bike ride on the road which I'd planned on Locus Web and I had a few blips with the navigation. One I'll mention here and it was when there was an upcoming turn and the voice command was telling me to go the opposite way the map was showing!! I raised this here years before and if I'm correct someone suggested to put a waymarker after or before the turn (I can't remember) for each turn, which can be a bit painstaking. Is this something that can be fixed?

This is also not clear to me, but the fact you missed voice commands looks more like the Locus Map was sleeping and not navigating at all (usually > battery optimization). You may open the side track recording panel and see if there isn't any warning about existing battery optimization ...

Apologies for the late reply. When I changed the location permission from only when using to all the time that seems to have fixed it. So fingers crossed that continues to be the case. I could have sworn that it had worked faultlessly with the former setting which is why I didn't suspect this might be the issue this time round. Thanks for your help

This is also not clear to me, but the fact you missed voice commands looks more like the Locus Map was sleeping and not navigating at all (usually > battery optimization). You may open the side track recording panel and see if there isn't any warning about existing battery optimization ...

As regards battery optimisation Locus was set to unrestricted and was one of the first things I checked on the day. For battery usage in settings there is a screen called 'Background Usage Limits' which has
Sleeping Apps = 0
Deep Sleeping Apps = 50
Never auto sleeping apps (Locus doesn't even appear on this list, probably because the app was set to 'unrestricted')

I have 'Location permission' set to 'Allow only while using the app' which has worked but there is an option 'Allow all the time' but as I've setup the app up to not be put to sleep, this shouldn't be a problem.

If I use online maps as opposed to offline maps could this have a bearing?

What seems to be missing here in the answers is why when I turned on the screen manually I was getting routing (voice commands). But when the screen auto turned off nothing came thru! Clearly routing from the Komoot GPX file was working!!

I see it the same way. Import GPX and navigate directly. Locus navigates by changing the angle of the line. From time to time there are too few but usually too many announcements.
Open alternative GPX in the route planner and recalculate. But this almost always produces a completely different route. Locus generates too few shaping points here. I think you should be able to set here: Many shaping points, few shaping points. I would always choose a lot. Even if it takes a little longer to calculate.

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Okay this is what I'm worried about with the reroute option (too few shaping points) I have to risk the route being changed and this hasn't been made clear in the answers so far. So how do I avoid this? Is this a real risk? Afterall it is hard to evaluate when you are on the side of the road trying to sort out a problem.

Sorry if I'm interfering here, I'm probably misunderstanding the problem.

If I plan a tour with Komoot and export it as gmx, I can navigate it in Locus without any problems. "Locus Map automatically generates navigation commands along the route in places of the most remarkable direction changes". Works perfectly.

I wasn't even aware of gmx files but will test this out. Guess I'll have to setup a komoot account. Thank you

Hello GusGF,
hmm ... are you willing to first try navigation with a route computed internally by the app? Because more people tried to use GPX from Komoot in the Locus Map, but can't imagine how this should correctly work for navigation to be true ...

Anyway please give a try to app route planner, or just simply "Re-route" the imported GPX route and use the result for the navigation. Thanks.

Okay so for routes imported from Komoot I should reroute. I won't get a chance to try this for a while but will certainly give it a try. Thank you

A friend gave me a gpx file exported from Komoot. Almost from the word go I had problems. The auto screen on before a turn and voice completely failed to work unless I manually turned on the screen when I would then see my position and hear nav prompts. The auto display off worked fine after a manual turn on. I spent the first hour of the bike ride messing about trying to get it to work. I've not changed any of the settings since I successfully used the app last.

Device admin I believe is still on!
Battery optimisation is off for Locus.
Location position set to "While using the app"
Controlling > Display > Sreeen on/off Control enabled and ticked for all 3 options

This is really disappointing and frustrating when I should have been enjoying the bike ride. Thinking it might have been an issue with the gpx file I downloaded Osmand+, the required maps and imported the route. Within an hour I was up and running with voice prompts for the rest of the ride. Strangely I couldn't get the screen to auto turn on but at least I now knew it wasn't a problem with the gpx file.
The other strange thing was even though I've got the maps downloaded the screen was having problems rendering and I was seeing black grid lines as if it was trying to download them.

I've just paid for a Gold subscription this week and now to have this problem I'm beginning to question if I made the right choice.

No, unfortunately that's not possible. I also don't think the colours are well chosen and the map or planning is confusing as a result.

I therefore prefer to plan on the PC with brouter web (https://brouter.de/brouter-web), even if I can only export my routes and not synchronise them.

However, I usually plan with the route planner in the app, which I really like.

Who manages the online web planner? Can we get them to change it, surely it's not rocket science!

In route planner. Choose planning mode and disable checkbox "include navigation commands".

I've gone into route planner and I can't see planning mode!

1. Tap on the track and in the bottom menu > "Re-route".
2. It opens Route planner and here in the side menu as @freischneider wrote, tap "Reverse route direction".
3. Start navigation also in the menu ...

Thank you Menion that's much clearer. Sorry I couldn't find this in the docs and if it's there it would have taken me ages I think to locate it 

Damn! Okay thanks for answering

Does anyone have any idea how you would change the route colours in the app. I'm partially colour blind so certain colours don't jump out at me and the default colour seems to blend in with the other map data, please take a look at the attachment and maybe you will see what I mean. Thanks

I'm not clear on how to recalculate and set "reverse route direction" for any specific route I might have in my library. Also isn't there a likelihood the route will end up being different even if there are no traffic rules, one way streets etc to be worried about?

BTW I searched the Locus help docs and the most useful thing I could find was "Recalculate - manual trigger of route recalculation and indicator of selected navigation profile." halfway down the page. And what is suggested is not happening for me i.e. "Short tap recalculates the route in the selected navigation profile." Not for me it doesn't. I know the help docs are hopelessly outdated in places so this could be the issue.