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[@wollewolle]

@wollewolle & @balloni55
ah,so the edit of coordinates > this is a big change in recent Beta versions. We completely removed the old "Grid" screen and integrated all into the search screen. No functionality should be lost, and all features are directly in the top row. So the edit of coordinates, projection etc., is all at the top row.

@menion
the old function was great. All in one view no scrolling that was fine. The most important for me "clipboard" and then "guide too" I didn't find yet.

Puh this change I don't understand from UI side. Maybe it has technical reasons but this is not helpful and I really don't like it. Sorry for saying that.

Wolfgang

+1

• Track chart no longer swallows tap events, and chart zoom respects the selected location.
• Chart slope data gets stronger optimisation

@menion 4.33.0.10 - confirmed improvement of chart slope - below is comparison of Web Planner (top chart) & LM (bottom chart) with my previous example - now LM shows 5% instead of 8% slope - far more realistic; zoom respects the selected location - great, thanks.
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I do believe the web planner's way of filling the parts above and below the zero line is far superior to what Locus app currently does. Even better would be different colors (e.g. red for above, green/blue for below, perhaps with gradient).

Question:
Is there a way to jump to the location of the photos shown in the track view? I know, they're selected according to timestamps, but if they also have a location, it would be great to be able to jump there on e.g. long-click.
Or am I overlooking something?

[@slarti76]

@slarti76
recording problem: try to switch Settings > GPS & sensors > Google services assisted location. You probably have this enabled (default), but it starts to cause a problems on some devices so give it a try and disable it.

Already tried that during the tour, pretty sure it didn't make a difference, but I'll play around with it some more...

Merry Christmas everyone!

Sorry for bug reporting in the holidays, but this one's severe:
I edited a track, did the following:

• Insert/edit trackpoint
• Remove section
• Insert/edit trackpoint

The last operation instead deleted like half of the track, I'm not 100%, but it was probably same as "Remove all after".

Track and screen recording of what I did can be found here: https://web.tresorit.com/l/UwA4T#NoxPRGDwfym3Key277zm1A (that video contains a "Remove all before" as first operation, but I tried it without again and could reproduce - the first "Insert/edit" however is necessary to reproduce)

I used latest beta, so not urgent, but definitely disconcerting...

[Beta version 4.31.3.11]

Beta version 4.31.3.11 just uploaded to Google Drive.

Sorry it took so long. We had to finish some fine-tuning.

Changelog:
 - fix: layout in Track editor

Only quick test, but seems to be working again 

Menion, any ETA on a beta? I would really like to be able to use the Track Editor again Thx!

The track editor is also equally useless for me like the track chart because the bottom buttons are overlapping with the standard Android buttons.

See comments #101 and #102, previous page.

Did something change with the way Locus handles language settings in 4.31.3? After I installed that (from Google Play), Locus suddenly started up in German. I checked the settings immediately, but Locus was set to "System default" and my system was definitely set to "English (UK)". Don't even know why Locus would choose German, I'm living in German-speaking country but have everything set to English - only the mobile provider might be identifiable as German.

But it gets worse: So I set Locus manually to "English (UK)", which worked, but now my times are still shown with "AM/PM", although I definitely also have "24h clock" set in my system settings (am/pm is the work of the devil ). Unfortunately, that's something I can't explicitly override in Locus under "Language & Units".

Any idea?

[@slarti76]

@slarti76
separation of LoPoints icon sizes > I hope this won't be necessary. Shouldn't be the highlighted icons a lot bigger for better visibility? Are you talking about the new permanent highlight on the map of certain categories?

I think opinions will differ on how much bigger, I'm sure. For me, the fact that the icon is given a bright blue bubble is already highlighting enough. Of course, keeping the icon itself in default size makes the whole thing automatically bigger, but to me, this is just way out of proportion.

But just so we're talking about the same thing, I attached a screenshot. I think at least the padding around the icon and the border of the bubble should be thinner. Or, alternatively, separate size factors

One more question: Why not keep the base color of the icon, and instead render everything with fixed light-blue? I mean, the un-highlighted icons all have colors based on categories, would make sense to use those for the hightlighted as well, no?

@Menion, sorry to ask this again, but I think it got lost in thread for last version: Do you think it makes sense and is possible to change the sizes of highlighted and not highlighted LoPoints separately? I find the highlighted much too big in comparison, but can only make them smaller for the price of making the non-highlighted minuscule.

And a similar problem:
In the Expert Settings, you can change the text sizes for "Dynamic Elevation", "Cursor to GPS", "Time Circles", and "Distance Circles" - but not for the "Auxiliary lines". I use that for measuring distances with two-finger-tap, but the number is so small that's it's barely readable, especially on the road and depending on map background.

I have now installed the new V 4.31.0 on my old Galaxy S7.
No track gallery here either. 

Can confirm.

Happy that the problem with the clickpoint of LoPoints is solved - also didn't think of the map magnification being a possible reason.

However, I find the highlighted LoPoints overwhelmingly big - at least 3x as high and double the width. Unfortunately, the size setting changes both highlighted and unhighlighted at the same time.
Menion, would it be possible to get separate selectors for both point icon sizes?

And while we're at point sizes: Could you add those settings to the presets? I think it makes a lot of sense, e.g. I have a biking profile/preset, where I of course want big icons, but also one for exporting track images, where I want the icons more subdued, leaving space for the tracks themselves. And as I can set the map magnification, it makes total sense to be able to adjust icons sizes, don't you think?

I got several observations about the new LoPoints:

• They still don't work with offline raster maps. I mentioned this before, don't remember if there was a reason, but it's inconvenient and confusing - if this is technically not possible, Locus should at least display a message when activating LoPoints over a map which doesn't support it.
• Worse, when I switch back from raster map to other map with LoPoints on, they still don't appear. I have to zoom in or out (sometimes multiple times) to "trigger" display.
• The highlighted icons have an un-intuitive "tap point": You have to click on the tip of the arrow. But the intuitive thing is to tap the icon itself. When several icons overlap each other and I tap on the top-most, I instead select some half-hidden one in the background. Same applies for moving the center cross over some point - I can be slap-dap in the middle of a "food & drinks" icon and a box pops up saying "guidepost" (which is not even a highlighted category).

I very much hope for improvements here and make the following suggestions

What about adding the possibility to open the parameter settings by long-clicking the profile title? (Everything else could stay the same, including the three-dot-menu.)

Then you can do it with the menu as well. That's something you don't change very often.

His point is exactly that he changes it very often...