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Red key on the centering button: How/when will it appear? I always and only have the red cogwheel when GPS is not available.

I had to newly install Locus. Though gps was on, Locus still had no granted android-permission to access location, which I directly changed then. My note is not that important and is only about the rare case of fresh install and not granted permission, which might not be obvious in first place.

See pic below about the popup-notice in that case.
Other pic shows the newly introduced red cogwheel in case gps is off. Well, I don't like it as i get tired of the exaggerated alerts today and the question-mark tells enough to me, but it's not my app.

I am quite happy at least to switch gps on/off with the dedicated android controls.
Some safety-aware smartphones feature hardware switches for security-sensitive functions like radio (incl. gps) and camera, for understandable reasons.
From my perspective, I always do feel uncomfortable with pseudo-smart automations in the background without any dialogs and realising this way not being in control of hardware and software, e.g. therefore currently dropping windows and finally switching to Linux (Arch atm).
This understanding of who is basically in charge and control is quite basic, deep and fundamental, might be due to endless hours throughout the journey of C64 up to now and understanding the evolution of computer-technology.
Though I am not doubting Locus and the whole Asamm-Team and this only a simple not-so-simple app, I am glad definitely not being plagued by scepticism, I do not prefer such oversophisticated "features" (mechanisms) in LM, at least not without any option. Therefore introducing an expert-option would be ok to me. Using once a dialog to set this option is also smart.

Maybe it's an idea to use simple changes like eg. optimising status text when gps is off, text is there since ages, see pic. Just kidding and pointing

@Luce: see pictures below.
(Und ist unter 'Alle Funktionen' zu finden, siehe Bild 4)

Maybe 'settings' should be 1 of the icons at least, does not seem to be the case with this setup. Should get doublechecked, identical to 'settings' cannot be disabled at all.

Menion, please notice. The bottom command bar in point mode is barely shown. This is independent from using fullscreen mode.

https://youtube.com/v/JISMz4GFzZI

Confirmed.
But only happens to me with a routeplanner planned track, which I saved, not with recorded tracks.
Only happens at  trackpoint 1 and then subsequently changing to no. 2 etc. With trackpoint 2 the detail popup changes its size with moved overlaying bottom bar, misplaced in the middle close to the location-header. Once I pull the detail popup down to make it smaller, the buttom bar jumps back to bottom, then fully visible, and everything stays fine.

@Andrew:
maybe try the package installer (if this is due to permissions) or redownload package?

I know OSM is quite heterogenous, but it's still too easy to let the online search fail..results while fueling my private jet

(correctly it's McDonald's without blank, white space, and with 's, so it's originally due to the underlying OSM-database. But still fun as being a very popular example about how to handle popular typos, misspellings, multiple entries)

MapGooglePlayAfa_4.21.1.2_1125_beta
i experience lot of lags while moving and loading map-areas. To test if this is vector-map+theme related I switched to a raster-map (mbtiles), same there.
Cannot give details, just a change that is noticeable over here.

v1.3.9
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Guys, I am interested if the "Install latest" in my signature works for you. There's some url forwarding going on and for me it did not consistently work, Locus reported a connect error.

Worked like a charm, see screenshot below. I am using LM4-AFA and checked date of zip and included Tapiola.xml, it's 1 3.9.
Thanks, currently my favourite theme due to chosen colours and also very functional.
(always have to edit my posts afterwards to add pictures)

Ich vermute die wird Balloni55 kennen, er nutzt ja immerhin die beta, aber fragt darüber hinaus..

scheint auf deutsch im Fachjargon mit 'Exposition' beschrieben zu werden:

zb. Wikipedia und in anderer Sprache:
engl.: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_(geography)
de: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_(Geographie)

Ein paar ähnliche Einträge auch unter https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=Aspect+terrain&cw=354

I think this is what he means.

Yup

I think as being a selection-dialog a vertical smaller window does not make sense, there might be profiles with a lot of parameters, and a changing dialog-size is of no real help (uncovered map is of no real value), same with another overlay which might be irritating.
As we can see by Luces screenshots the horizontal space might get slightly optimised, sticking to 3 (current state, some space leftover) or 4 icons with text. 5 is quite compact and might not help with thin gloves on or while being in motion (reduced precision) on bike.
Just some thoughts though reg. this.

Seems like the filter-chain is not yet optimised.

I used some city names for simple search tests.
Was going for 'Gütersloh' and looked for the search-as-you-type-results.
'Güters' (while typing) is tricky as 'Güter' is a german word for cargo and goods, and street is 'Straße' in german, also starting with s - so you will get a lot of 'Güterstraße' of different towns, not that uncommon.
At least no city 'Gütersloh' as top-posititioned suggestion.
Google does different, quite experienced with searches, they classify search requests by types and top-position towns or other popular interests.
Similar to 'Dor' when going for Dortmund or Dorsten.

Maybe you prefer some close-range-experience, nevertheless I sometimes found myself in a situation to quickly look for some locations due to very different reasons. Currently I go with Google maps.

IMHO some category- and some priority-evaluation makes sense as part of the filter-chain (sorting of available results).

...But sharing of existing GMaps POI doesn't work/ has different behavior to 4.17. Now LM4 Search will display the shared link as text, for example https://maps.app.goo.gl/zmQaPsNkSRVfqtDn6, and display "No search results" rather than moving to that point. When I open this example URL in my web browser, it displays the correct POI.

I guess that is about PlaceIDs and requires API-usage, if possible at all.
This can not be simply decoded or parsed like simple MapURLs with lat-lon. Currently only sharing a nearby set marking seems to be of help.

- opening of side panel has a small moment of stuck, not completely smooth
- pic expert settings - value might be strange, don't know. I better leave it like it isYou cannot view this attachment.

the previous point/track visibility toogle was perfect.

Only downside was a state dependent case: visibility state was set to 'not show', and then you decide to enable single points or tracks. Then of course you won't recognise your changes until you decide to toogle the visibility back to 'show'.
Well at least this could be irritating if there's only 1 point or track and you wonder why it can can be seen AND you are missing the current state in map-screen menu.
maybe a rare scenario, though happened to me

Solution could be to toogle visibility  to 'show' in case of 'not show' during event 'enabling points or tracks'. Maybe only with point/track count 1.