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#1
Themes - Vector maps / Re: [Theme] OS Map
July 24, 2024, 21:51:12
The icon highlights are indeed circles drawn under the icons, selecting green for putin as this is a go point for canoing, red for egress as this is a stop point for canoing and yellow for when both are set.

River highlights (as per suggestion) are similar to how the bicycle routes are highlighted using wider lines before drawing them.
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#2
Themes - Vector maps / Re: [Theme] OS Map
July 21, 2024, 22:41:34
Quote from: den def on July 21, 2024, 20:33:43I am using Lomaps

Hmm, you might want to switch to OpenAndroMap maps as they support put-in and egress points. I added circles to highlight where these are: green = put in, red = egress (take out) and cyan = both.

As you can see, lomaps doesn't show these.

Will have to come up with some icons for these.

Wondering how to address your other request of higher contrast for Rivers... is it all waterways? I could add an emphasise outline to all waterways? Or (maybe) change the colour of water (but this might be difficult due to large amount if code involved...)
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#3
Themes - Vector maps / Re: [Theme] OS Map
July 21, 2024, 10:40:50
Quote from: den def on July 21, 2024, 08:57:05I know this theme is focused on hiking, ... But would it be possible to add an option to dash and/or emphasise water elements like rivers, lakes,... With a more contrasting for ewample: dark Blue colour?
Or even dark blue arrows to point in direction of flow?
I prefer to use this with LoMaps
Thank you
Jef

Hi Jef,

I'm guessing you're a river user, canoeing etc? I think it would ve a great idea to add support for river usages of the map.

As an experiment I reused the oneway symbol for roads on rivers/streams/canals from zoom level 15 to see what it would look like, see attached screenshots.

There is also support in the tags to indicate rapids, perhaps this would also be useful? Although they don't seem to render for some reason...

Karl

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#4
Maps / Re: New vector maps for Locus - feedback
January 17, 2024, 23:40:55
@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?
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#5
Themes - Vector maps / Re: [Theme] OS Map
January 17, 2024, 22:40:04
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.
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#6
Themes - Vector maps / Re: [Theme] OS Map
January 17, 2024, 12:26:59
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
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#7
Themes - Vector maps / Re: [Theme] OS Map
December 28, 2023, 20:40:12
Quote from: twoten on December 28, 2023, 19:37:03What is the difference and advantage of VTM (when it works)?

Symbols and names rotate with the map, see attached.

I think VTM also supports 3D mapping, like on a satnav... if the app supports it...
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#8
Hi Everyone,

A big thank you to everyone that tried out the recent v20231013 release (it contained a lot of changes I have made over the last 2.75 years!) and thank you everyone for kindly reporting back to me the bugs/issues and things that could be improved further.

I've incorporated the changes and have just updated the sticky "[Theme] OS Map" topic thread with the latest release (see post #1 for updated release notes and details).

I'm hoping I can get this version of the theme into the Locus Map store to make it easier to download and install soon.
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#9
Themes - Vector maps / Re: [Theme] OS Map
December 20, 2023, 00:39:49
I've just uploaded the latest release of the OS Map theme (v20231218) which now includes fixes and updates for many issues you all reported to me. A very big thank you to all for reporting your findings, I hope this release will be OK enough to finally release into the Locus Map store, my next task.

Here is a list of the changes in this latest release:
  • Removed residential roads from filled in residential areas at zoom level 12.
  • Removed unused categories and tidied up style menu definitions
  • Added colour icons to style menus to indicate options by colour groups, green=hiking, orange=cycling, purple=mtb, brown=urban, black=roads, white=non-OS.
  • Added option "Show symbols earlier" so you can have less symbol intrusion at Z15 and lower, useful in urban/city areas.
  • Added option "Building names earlier" so you can have more building namers appear earlier from Z16 onwards.
  • Added option "emphasise all sealed roads too" so you can selectively also highlight ALL roads that are sealed, or disable (if you prefer a less distracting urban view).
  • Added footpath names visible from Z16.
  • Changed "surface textures" options to also include all steps, footpaths and bridleways.
  • Changed option "road surface/grade textures" to "surface textures" to be shorter menu entry.
  • Changed option "emphasise road surface/grade textures" to "emphasise surface textures" to be shorter menu entry.
  • Changed size of covered reservoir symbol at Z13/Z14 to be smaller.
  • Changed unclassified roads to appear from Z12 (was Z13).
  • Changed smaller service roads to appear from Z13 (was Z12).
  • Changed 50k pylons to be smaller at high zoom levels.
  • Changed place name priorities to work better.
  • Fixed missing bridges casings at Z13/Z14.
  • Fixed symbol/pattern filenames to be have matching cases in both theme and filing system - enables theme to work correctly with OruxMaps.
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#10
I'll try a Locus map weblink for position:

https://web.locusmap.app/loc/51.86898:-2.22724:Cycle%20lanes%20on%20one%20way

Here's the osm link to the way too:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4225982



I wasn't aware of the tag transform documentation, will find and read, thanks.
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#11
Maps / Re: New vector maps for Locus - feedback
December 12, 2023, 21:45:15
Quote from: Tapio on December 12, 2023, 18:31:57Reasonable suggestions. I just recently decided not to include residential streets into ZL12, but am still a bit undecided. Tertiary (and bigger) I agree. I start tertiary also in 11.

I saw your change to not show residential at z12 and liked it, I'm trying it out in my theme too, but did it slightly differently, at z12 I'm drawing the residential roads below the landuse=residential. This way any residential roads that exit a town/village and join another highway or on areas with no landuse set they are still visible/connected. Also I have an option to not fill landuse=residential and the the residential roads are still there. At z13 upwards I still draw them over the filled areas.
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#12
Maps / Re: New vector maps for Locus - feedback
December 08, 2023, 15:44:23
Would it be possible to show highway.unclassified, highway.service and highway.track from level Z12?

Attached shows a comparison at Z12 of LoMap vs OAM, see that LoMap shows large blank areas. I think it better to show that there is something in the empty spaces... also, if you are navigating by car,  it would be good to see that there are some minor roads available and where they go,  especially when stuck in traffic jam and contemplating making a diversion...
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#13
Themes - Vector maps / Re: [Theme] OS Map
December 03, 2023, 22:51:02
Had a busy evening, managed to draft fixes for all the issues reported so far.

I've loaded a draft version with fixes here:

    OS Map v20231203 Draft1.zip

I've not updated the legends or release notes yet, will do that for a proper release.

Changes made are:
- reduced heavy pylons at high zoom levels.
- fixed issues causing Oruxmap to not display many elements correctly.
- added option enabled by default "show symbols earlier" to allow reduced clutter in cities.
- fixed dynamic view of footpath dashes green/black out of sync
- moved surface highlights to below the highways to avoid obscuring the surface texture and street names.

BTW, the issue with Oruxmaps was down to case sensitivity of filenames in theme vs actual filenames. Seems Windows likes to capitalise the first letter by default. Have renamed all files to lowercase now.

Please try out the new draft and I'll all be very grateful of any feedback, thanks in advance.
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#14
Themes - Vector maps / Re: [Theme] OS Map
December 03, 2023, 17:20:13
Thank you everyone for feedback and bugs found so far, I very much appreciate it and will work on these to get a fixed release out ASAP. Attached is my fix list so far.
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#15
Quote from: karlchick on December 02, 2023, 00:59:51... the new PROW highlights are drawn below the highway... I should do this for these highlights too.

Attached is a quick test of doing this, think I like it...
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