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but you never know the point in time

@michaelbechtold - worse for a recorded track, and wanting to know clock-time of an arbitrary point - tell me if a quicker way - library > track > make visible > tap desired point on map > tap "i" icon (bottom LHS) > drag up - note created timestamp. Not even for first or last point is there a quick statistic or method. Has been discussed before, maybe a few years ago with configurable track statistics, but it never made it to public.

@Andrew, did you find anything?

@Tapio - as per Menion's comment, I just assume there was some library change. I did open two as ZIPs, and note there are a huge # folders, so to be honest, I then couldn't be bothered searching each one & comparing for a different file and/or size.
 

I note @ top of the announcement:

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A backup of all points & tracks: the progress bar goes to 100% nearly immediately (few seconds) although for me the actual backup takes many minutes. The progress bar is of little use at present.

What to do with it here?

leave it "as is"

4.32.0.4 - all good now
 

Thanks for all your work Bernard. The Desert theme has always been my favorite in sparsely populated places to show maximum details. Also to highlight unsealed roads.

web page error #404 for link https://www.maiwolf.de/locus/Legende_OUTDOOR-DESERT.pdf

Sorry to read your news @menion. Huge release based on release notes/ huge # changes. The Edge-to-edge is working nicely on my Samsung A35 with A16.

New beta, release notes aren't displayed at the top. Then I went to the menu under App Info. As soon as I click on Release Notes, the app crashes.

confirmed

Another recent issue with unwanted full screen - I don't have expert setting full screen, but when I display a recorded track chart, the screen becomes full screen but I can't tap the LM bottom buttons like chart settings because it is overlapping with standard Android 16 back, home and task buttons as attached screen capture

PS using latest APK but can't update my signature right now

The automatic notification to update LoMaps works well these days, but I don't recall *ever* being notified for an update of the associated routing data?
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Clicking My Library in 4.31.3.5 works for me.

[@Andrew Heard]

@Andrew Heard
"Trojan" ... hmm, as I see, this "Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml" is often false positive. Not sure what I may do with it. Our code is for sure clean. If there may be a Trojan in any 3rd party library ...  ... it may of course, but I believe we do not use any unverified libraries.

@menion, no problems, it was just an observation to share with any users downloading via Windows

I eventually downloaded direct to device. I then copied back to Windows PC. PC didn't detect any security issue. There was a virus signature update yesterday - "Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Version 1.435.767.0)". Similarly, there was no issue with the latest download to Windows for MapGooglePlay_4.31.3 + Auto_1194_release.apk.
 

thanks @Graf Geo - yes, we've been around this circle many times. I know all that. That's perfectly adequate for me too. I'm thinking of other, maybe less technical users. I have other friends that I've shown LM too, encourage to use - and they say far too complex for them to bother using - their own words. As I've said, sorry again, normally tapping the whole button results in action. When the red badge is visible, tapping is apparently ignored if map is already at last position. How does a user link in the mind the connection between a "red badge" and realizing the Android location is disabled? They see something is wrong, but there are no hint how to fix their situation.

My point in general is that users, like me & you, know LM inside out. I'm thinking more how new or occasional users look when evaluating GPS apps & which they chose and/ or continue to use.

By the way, I was using Anthropic "Claude AI" a few days ago. Asking for help. It recommended I check out OsmAnd. I replied like "are you aware of Locus Map". It wasn't. So then that potential new user, maybe silver or gold, is lost. I guess OpenAI/ ChatGPT will give a similar reply.

for that reason investigate using /Android/media instead of /Android/data

Thanks but /Android/media/menion.android.locus.pro is empty.

empty now, and sorry I didn't provide more details, but Locus can place all its files in /media rather than /data, and as a result file manager programs are able to display/ move/ delete/ copy these files. It may be worth investigating.

You quickly get used to what the red badge means.

@Graf Geo - how would a new user work out what it means? Normally a tap on the centering button does *something*. When Location is turned off, it then does nothing. I just mean a toast-style orange messagebox, not a button within a button.