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recently I got team of British cavers visiting my country and we encountered a "problem" with locus free... I prepared 2 big topo maps in sqlitedb format of region in which we are doing cave exploration, and I bring it with me on the field, I also downloaded locus free apk file . I bringed everything on both USB flash and phone. But despite I putted all on their phones we were unable to start locus apk itself. We needed to download some 5,5 mb more in order for locus to start.
Do I need to mention that there was NO  usable cell signal for many kilometres around, we were at complete wilderness. so within a group of 20 people, my phone only got usable maps because net is a must to initiate locus free.

bottomline: Is there a posibility to install some functional free version without a net access?

i made some maps of former Yugoslavia for locus app. They are made with mapc2mapc program(also sheets are merged within same program, gdal translate was used to convert Hermannskogel datum to WGS84). As far as i tested them(tested around Banja Luka city and mountain Manjača), they are accurate within~30-40 m.
they are scanned in 300 dpi, map scale is 1:200 000
maps are in .gemf format i think you need both files to use them in locus(.gemf and .zdat file)
For those unfortunate people with windows phones>>> gemf format you can use also in some app for that OS, because there is no Locus for that platform...
I miss (read-> i dont have paper versions of Celje, Split and Kriva Palanka sheets).And i did not scanned Serbia and Montenegro yet, although i have those in paper versions, since i have to pay for scanning, and i am bit short in money atm.
Considering Serbia, map is pretty outdated because DJerdap dam did not existed in those times...

https://mega.nz/#F!oB8ACCrS!-70yeh7yHbaqwv81wcP29g

[should work by parent directories]

You should really polish map auto-load feature.
For example: auto load maps of same type should work by parent directories. I got 8 very different layers(types) of personal maps and i sorted them as different directories.: 
   1. topo 25k
   2. topo 50k
3.  geological 100k
4. pedological(soil survey) 50k
5. geomorphological 500k
6. soil errosion 500k
7. lomaps vector for my country
8. optional>>> American topo maps from around 1995
all those maps are like 30+ GB of space on sd card
each of those layers provide me different information, which I don't need at once.
When I turn on :load all maps it gives me CHAOS
when I turn on: load map of same type only it gives me bit less chaos, but it is chaos.
For the moment I tried putting different types in different formats so I use 50k topo and 100k geology as sqlitedb format. And pedological,25k topo,geomorphological, and soil erosion as gemf format.
Although I enabled automatic loading of vector maps, lomaps wont show as base map, when I leave those mentioned layers it shows me geomorphological map.
At the moment i just cannot use American map type because it messes with my other more important layers.
So as conclusion: you should make this app to load maps by existing folders not by randomness.
To be more precise, map overlay is working just fine.
What don't work well is when i leave one map it most frequently loads me one piece of pedological map one piece of geomorphological map ect ect(despite i got them all sorted in different directories). so,random type of map.
Also i cannot make one default basemap of my preference(which i would like to be vector lomap, since they are excellent for cities/streets).
It wont of course auto load me gemf database if i am in sqlitedb or vice-versa.

[Should i put google drive link here or should i upload them on some share server?]

Since there are no usable topographic maps for my region, I recently created some maps for locus apk. My source is old(~35y) military 1:50.000 maps which are not military secret since 1,5 years ago.
Initial calibration was done manually.
Collar is removed in global mapper, and calibration is translated into UTM zone 34 projection with wgs84 datum.
Maps was merged in mapc2mapc. 4 tiles which represent 1:100000 map are joined together, then 2 of these are merged again (I joined them by east+west piece). then i saved them in mapc2mapc for locus. I also experimented on zoom levels so they are not all the same zoom and quality. There is about 2-3gb of files.
Should i put google drive link here or should i upload them on some share server?