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Even with full-screen mode enabled, all the buttons are still displayed on my screen.

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Rotating the phone "eats" away buttons. This happens in both directions.
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On my device, all the buttons are displayed in landscape mode. It seems to depend on the device.

400 Points shown, I turn AR on, rotate the camera a bit fore and back, along the points... LM crashes reliably.
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Quick test with over 1200 points displayed and then AR – no crash for me.

Klick on the X just below your marker on the right and they are back.

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Auch die Planung einer Tour ist m. E. nicht Aufgabe von Locus. Hierzu setze ich schon seit Jahren eine eigene Software am PC ein.
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Das sehe ich aber komplett anders. Der Routenplaner (in der App) ist für mich eigentlich noch wichtiger als die Navigation und eine der von mir meistgenutzen Funktionen.
Der Webplaner kann diesem leider immer noch nicht das Wasser reichen, trotz Verbesserungen. Ich plane zwar nur gelegentlich am PC, nutze da dann oft lieber Brouter / bikerouter.

Ansonsten kann ich die Kritiker schon verstehen, auch wenn meine Erfahrungen mit Updates und Weiterentwicklung überwiegend positiv sind. Und vor einem Urlaub / Outdoor-Wochenende sollte man im Zweifelsfall erstmal nicht updaten, wenn man eine stabile Version hat und keine Lust/Zeit mehr hat, erst zu testen.

Allerdings gibt es auch für mich naheliegende Verbesserungen, auf die ich seit Jahren warte. Vor allem die Möglichkeit, das Trackinfopaneel individuell anpassen zu können. Nach Einführung der Trackgalerie und der neuen Charts wichtiger denn je, da bei mehrzeiligen Tracktiteln und aktivierter Trackgalerie das Trackinfopaneel komplett die Karte verdeckt. Was die Nutzung/Auswertung des Höhenprofils sehr erschwert. Zumindest das Ein-/Ausblenden der Track-Galerie und vielleicht des Tracktitels sollte zeitnah möglich sein. Die Konfigurierbarkeit soll zwar geplant sein, aber hoffentlich passiert das noch, bevor ich zu alt für Outdoor-Aktivitäten bin. 😉

Dennoch überwiegen für mich eindeutig die positiven Erfahrungen. Ich nutze Locus gefühlt seit einer Ewigkeit und finde die Entwicklung fantastisch und die App ist bei mir fast täglich im Einsatz.

Hmm, I've just checked for updates and got a list of four maps to update. So it seems to be working fine for me.
Beta 4.33.0.8

Another serious bug:

The track editor causes Locus to crash.

Regarding 4.33.0.6 (1211)
I've only installed it on my secondary device (S10) for now. First impressions:

Integrated Augmented Reality solution: Where can I find it, or how can I view it?

All "config.cfg" settings have been moved to the Expert settings:
Good, this makes it more consistent and clearer.

Fix: multiple tracks selected at once:
Confirmed.

 - Add: option to display waypoints (not the navigation orders) on the charts
  - Add: support for tapping on waypoints on the chart + highlight:
I've never used waypoints before. Now I've added some to a track as a test. When I highlight them, they appear very large on the map. How do I make them small again? I have to hide the track and show it again; then the icons become small again, but that can't be the solution, can it?
The waypoints don't appear on the charts, even though I've enabled the option.

add: zoom buttons on the screen with track charts:
Good!

Chg: improved line style to support "dotted style" (just dots on track points):
OK, that makes it clearer. Even if you don't immediately realise they're track points and not a normal dot pattern. Maybe "Trackpoints only" instead of "Dotted style only"?

I can't comment on the other changes (yet).

@Gerhard57: The gaps are stops/pauses. I think that's good; you can spot them quickly on the graph. Of course, they only make sense for speed and pace, which is why they're only shown there. Not on the elevation graph. That works.

@Mick FU: I much prefer this now. Previously, selected tracks were highlighted in complementary colours, which (depending on the colour) wasn't always ideal or easy to see.
Although I've just noticed that this might not be ideal for framed lines either, as a light line with a dark border now gets a white border and isn't highlighted as well. So there's still room for improvement here too.

@everyone/Locus Team: another suggestion for improving the new chart overview. When you zoom in on the chart – which apparently can only be done with two fingers – the position marker can no longer be moved. Only the chart moves. The marker can then only be positioned by clicking on the chart, which isn't very precise.
For zooming, additional plus/minus buttons would be useful (as before).

One more thing: The new chart overview does not display elevation profiles for planned routes; it only shows a blank background. See screenshot.

Most of the improvements to the charts are a success. Zoomable and "clock-friendly" = very good! 👍

In my opinion, the "smoothing" of the charts isn't quite right yet; on some tracks it looks "jagged" or "stepped". I preferred it better before, when the height chart was smoother/rounder. It's a matter of taste, of course.

The position marker's data field runs directly along the chart's curve (I'd already mentioned this as suboptimal). Suggestion: Perhaps it could be positioned at the top end of the vertical position line; then it would always run above the curve and wouldn't partially obscure it.

Thanks. It seems to be working now, but after all the trouble I've had, I need to test it properly.

Version 1209 (4.33.0):

I can't open any tracks from the library: Locus crashes and restarts.
When I click on a track visible on the map: Locus crashes and restarts.

New routes using the route planner: the app also crashes when you click on the new route.
Unfortunately, the app isn't really usable in its current state.

After every restart, all tracks are hidden...

I'd actually forgotten something: 

On the charts, you can choose between distance or time on the x-axis.

Whilst the distance axis is always logically divided into round kilometre increments (e.g. 5–10–15 km or 50–100 km), the time axis always displays non-round increments (e.g. 1:40 hr, 3:20 hr, 5... hr or 8:20 hr, 16:40 hr, 25.00 hr). Sometimes the last value is also truncated, see screenshot.

I know that, ultimately, a round 100 minutes is shown as the non-round 1:40, but since you usually count in hours on longer trips, I find this unnecessarily inconvenient for a quick estimate. Full hours would be better (2 hr, 4 hr, 6 hr, etc.)

First of all: this isn't a new issue, and this isn't meant to be a bug report. Just a question to clarify something.

Yesterday, I used Locus for the first time in ages whilst cycling. I'd enabled track recording and map rotation so that the map would face in the direction of travel. It works fine as long as you don't stop. But when I do stop, the map ALWAYS rotates by 180°, so it's pointing exactly in the direction I came from. 

I've tried various settings, including the automatic GPS/hardware compass switch. In that case, the map still rotates by exactly 180° when I stop; only after several seconds does it respond to the compass and align itself more or less correctly. I've tried different speeds as the threshold for the switch, but always get the same result: First a rotation against the last direction of travel, then alignment with the compass after a few seconds. A bit odd.

I'd understand if the map rotated randomly, but it's odd that it always rotates exactly 180°. Is there a reason for this 180° rotation? Can it be turned off? Of course, it would be nice if the map continued to face 'straight ahead' even when I stop.

Hello Menion,

As there are quite a few requests and minor issues regarding the stylish new charts and other updates, I'd like to summarise them briefly:

• The elevation chart and track should both be visible on the screen. When using the track gallery and/or with multi-line track titles, this isn't currently possible at all. This severely limits the usefulness of the charts. The position marker with the info in the graph obscures parts of the curves and cannot be hidden. See screenshot.
• Furthermore, it is essential that the graphs are zoomable.
• Ideally, the track info panel should be configurable (I know you wrote that this is planned – hopefully soon). 
• As has been noted before: the track gallery should be able to be shown or hidden via a toggle. At the moment, you have to go through the hassle of going into the settings first.
• Track gallery: there are many reasons for saving the same photos in different folders. This means they appear multiple times in the track gallery. Therefore, there should either be an option to ignore folders or automatic detection of duplicates, so that no images are displayed multiple times.

Please don't forget:

• When I click on a track point in the track, its date and time should be displayed immediately. At the moment, this is also quite a faff.
• Geotagged photos should be excluded from POI alerts.

Have I forgotten anything else? 

BTW: Even though I'm always pointing out issues and making requests, I'd also like to emphasise that the app is developing brilliantly and getting better all the time! 

 

@WildWortWechsel: You're not doing anything wrong. At some point (I can't quite remember when), a feature was introduced to add 'fictitious' timestamps to planned routes.

I'm not particularly happy with it either. It might help to better gauge the stages of the planned tour, but I'm not a big fan of it. Especially as it makes it harder to distinguish between planned and recorded tours afterwards. But I suppose we'll just have to live with it.