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Hi, thanks for valuable feedback. This fail to properly record your activity was indeed unfortunate.

So when you restarted track recording, the app records portion of the activity but then stop completely? Could you please share that activity via link? We will discuss this with responsible developer once he will be available.

Green dot indicates start of the track, while red one is finish.

However please note, that BETA versions can be sometimes unstable.  Also latest BETA is already older than public version available via App Store.

Hi, we are confident to say, that current "default" behavior with auto-reroute is better and more intuitive for more users.

But in the same time we are not 100% happy how we had to "hide" the option to change profile only for next segments - knowing it was used like that by our more experienced users and is one of key advantage of our route planner. So we definitely didn't close this topic yet.

Hi, version with offline maps was released to public. Thanks all who provided feedback, although don't hesitate next time to write it even there to this public thread to spark discussions about relevant topics.  

Hi herve.caf,

you should join BETA, if you are willing to test pre-release and possibly unstable versions and give us feedback.

We hope to do public release of offline maps capability during next week if all go well. So far we are on the right track, after some previous delays.

Hi Ivo, yep, this was not yet implemented. For now it is basic list of regions sorted by distance from your position.

Hello!

To our BETA testers, we can finally present pre-release version 1.5.2 with completely new vector based world-wide LoMaps and LoPoints database, on which we have worked on for recent months. Both online and offline!

Our default tourist maps were rebuilt from scratch and are providing numerous improvements compared to their previous generation, including better rendering of tourist or bike paths in various zoom levels. The maps are no longer rasterized, so you can rotate them and have texts in correct orientation or enjoy smoother zooming. Maps are already generated with whole-world coverage, so any region you might be interested in is ready to be explored or downloaded. Maps are also complemented by altitude data to render map shading which greatly improve orientation on hilly terrain.

With new maps you are getting also new generation of our POIs database, which is streamed or downloaded together with the maps data. Among others it allows you to search for POIs in downloaded regions even without internet connectivity.

Both online and offline data are the same, which allows the app to seamlessly transition between regions with offline data and others. There are only few exceptions like hill shading data or POI community content being loaded from the internet even in downloaded regions in the default mode. And speaking of modes, there is automatic mode which handles map and other content switching for you, or you can force the app to use only offline or online data if you have reason for it and know what you doing.   

For now, offline maps are available to Gold Premium users or to everyone who didn't yet spend their 3 free downloads presents.

There are huge amount of app and infrastructure changes under this version, so please let us know your feedback or if something is not working as expected!

Thanks

P.S. In case you would willing to help us occasionally testing some hot stuff and want to join our iOS BETA community to get access to some features prior their public release, let us know your Apple ID and Locus account via private ticket in our helpdesk: https://help.locusmap.eu/ticket/add

For the web planner to better store its state so you would not need to "start from the beginning" every time after reload of the page is currently under development and require huge changes under the hood. Hopefully in few next weeks it will be out.

Most likely to remember position within MyLibrary will have to wait for second phase sometimes later in the summer though, but we are on the right track.

Zdravím, nejdříve tedy v plánovači v mobilní app vytvoříte trasu, uložíte do Mojí knihovny a poté ji exportujete?
1) jaký router používáte? LoRouter nebo jiný?
2) Jak trasu do hodinek exportujete?

Díky

If every piece of the puzzle click together in next week or two as we planned, offline LoMaps will be out in May for iOS.

Hi, yes. We know it take longer than you and even us probably anticipated. We wanted to cover missing key features before the springtime initially. But in the end we chose harder path in order for the app to be better in the long-term. In case you don't loose patience with us, I am confident to say you will be using better product in the end because of this seemingly "empty" period.

But it definitely isn't empty for us, we are still rushing towards our goals with the app in the development!

1) We spent significant time to upgrade MyLibrary as it was mandatory due to technical reasons to keep compatibility with its huge scheduled redesign on backend servers, Android and Web. And it resulted in better experience with it even on iOS, although we know that wasn't highest priority for users.. But we had to do it anyway. By the way, in the process the iOS version have its first "win" against its older Android sibling - you can now browse your library while see the data immediately on the "live" map on same screen.

2) The next big thing are offline maps. We are in the finish line with the development here. In the process we built completely new vector online/offline LoMaps and offline POI dataset which will upgrade experience even compared to their current versions available on Android. During spring we will launch them on iOS and some time later even on remaining platforms.

3) The next quest will be to deliver 1.gen planner and navigation/guidance features. We will see if we manage to release them during summer, but we will do our best.

So yeah, for this year, the app will definitely keeps its Lite postfix in the name. But we definitely didn't slowed down in the team. Of course, more users willing to support us with activating Premium, bigger change we will be able to speed up the development with additional team member.

Dobrý den, každý den jsme k tomu blíže. 

Ale realisticky - i my bychom uvítali rychlejší rozvoj naší iOS verze, ale máme před sebou stále ohromné množství práce. Věříme, že základní plánování bude dostupné někdy v polovině tohoto roku a některé další klíčové chybějící funkce do konce roku.

Tou nejlepší podporu, kterou můžeme dostat a která nám může umožnit vývoj dále urychlit je nákup Premium verze.

Thanks for both positive and negative feedbacks guys. Believe us, we know that our web app is still lacking and we are definitely not on the previously projected track with the development. But I can confidently say now, that we recently managed to speed up the development and I hope you will start to see that!

Regarding the topic of reloading the page in particular: I can't promise that the web will soon be able to reload to the same state even with thousands of user-content pre-loaded on map. But the current situation when it doesn't remember almost any state is really bad and we are finally also close to start moving with this issue forward.

Is it currently added to Macbook?.

Hi, no, it is currently not in our priority list, sorry. I expect to reevaluate this during summer or autumn.

Hi dancatt, I am afraid it will not be soon as complexity of our Locus Map on Android is mind blowing even for us sometimes.  And due to tremendous work ahead of us with this, we can't make any promises.

That being said we are prioritizing most missing features and hope that next year it will be able to cover many more use cases that our users are used to from the full-fledged Locus Map on Android. So please stay tuned!

Hi, support for Macbooks was not yet decided. It is not much about technical aspects, but there are some legal and product questions which we first must analyse before making the decision.   

In the meantime, you can rely on our web planner: https://web.locusmap.app/