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This issue was fixed for me in one of the past updates, and the disabling of the screen lock when Locus was active worked, and when I exited Locus the screen lock behavior returned to the Android settings default.  

However, starting a about a month ago the "disable screen lock" option when Locus is active does not work at all.  The screen always locks when I manually put the screen to sleep or let the screen go to sleep by timing out.

I do not have any other screen locking program installed.

This is a really useful feature, as it is a real pain to enter your unlock pass-code every time you want to view the map, and you still want to turn the screen off as much as possible to conserve battery.  

Please fix.  Thanks.

Please have a look at  ESRI's ArcGIS application for Android.  Although it is nowhere near as feature rich or stable as Locus, it does have one feature I wish Locus had: the ability to add custom attributed vectors and points to the map directly from the phone interface.  I know you can add points and routes to the map with Locus, but I don not know of a way to design a custom dialog with a variety of input controls that allows me to enter custom attributes for each point or line.  This would make it much easier to interface with a GIS database that have attribute tables for each geographic feature class.

It would also be very good if there was a simple program that would allow Locus users to select an attribute table that they want to have available in Locus, select the input control type (e.g. check box, radio button, combo box, text box) for each attribute with restrictions and default entries if desired, and then save to a file that could be put into folder on the Android phone that Locus would access to display the custom dialog.

I would also be nice to have the ability to update a database remotely.  I would like to have employees that are out in the field collecting data be able to update our enterprise GIS database at the end of each day without having to come back to the office everyday.

Menion: to answer your question; No I am not using a custom rom.

Looks like the GPS unit in my Motorola running Gingerbread is setting hasAccuracy() = false

Quote below is what I found on the MotoDev Fourm, although no solution is provided.

http://community.developer.motorola.com ... td-p/17116 :

This might not be a bug - the google docs at:

http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... ation.html
say "Returns true if the provider is able to report accuracy information, false otherwise."
In other words, the gps unit is saying "I can tell you where you are, but I can't accurately pin down the size of the circle you are in."

Now, when hasAccuracy() is false, getAccuracy() is supposed to return 0.0f.   Are you seeing that, or are you seeing something else?

All other programs (GPS Status, GPS Essentials) are also reporting accuracy of 0.0 ft.  Not sure where to look to fix this problem.  Would it be Android, or the Motorola Atrix hardware?

See following post

 viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1050

The first time I checked the "Disable lock screen - When is application active, disable lock-screen"  option the phone did not lock when Locus was active.  Great!  However, the lock screen on my Motorola Atrix was completely disabled even after I exited Locus and force closed Locus.  After I reset the lock-screen in the phone's system settings, now the same option no longer works when Locus is active.  Can this be fixed?


[English translation note: "When is application active, disable lock-screen" should be "When application is active, disable lock-screen"]

Before the GPS on my Motorola Atrix gets a fix and it is using the nearest cell towers to get coordinates from, the accuracy is usually reported as 1 to 2 miles.  However, once the on-board GPS gets a fix, the accuracy is reported as 0.0ft.  This is not possible.  How can I get an GPS accuracy reported correctly?

Thanks

A way to create a personal sqlitedb, tar, or GEMF (//http://forum.asamm.cz/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1148&p=6686&hilit=GEMF#p6686) file from personal data.  I use a lot of maps that are generated with multiple layers of proprietary data in desktop GIS  applications like the open source SAGA GIS, or the closed source ESRI ArcView GIS.  I can export these maps from either SAGA or ArcView into various image formats which could then be sliced up and put into a format (sqlitedb, or tar, or GEMF) that Locus could display.

Does anyone know of such a tool?

I used Menion's imageCutter java program  (//http://forum.asamm.cz/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=3) to generate a tar file from a png and pnw (world) file, put it in the <../Locus/maps> folder, but LocusPro (version 1.13.3) does not recognize the tar file.  Am I doing something wrong?

I have also tried pbf files and get different errors.  Now it is tells me I have to use bbox.  When I use bbox definition (e.g. "--mapfile-writer file=<pathfile-name> bbox= minLat,minLon,maxLat,maxLon" ,  I get the "SEVERE" error "Bound element must come before any entities."

Does anyone know how to correct the "SEVERE" errors pasted below that I get when I try to run "osmosis -v --rx file=C:OpenStreetMapMapstest.osm --mapfile-writer file=C:OpenStreetMapMapstest.osm.map" ?
 

    FINE: Waiting for task 1-rx to complete.
    Sep 6, 2011 4:51:01 PM org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.pipeline.common.ActiveTask
    Manager waitForCompletion
    SEVERE: Thread for task 1-rx failed
    java.lang.NullPointerException
            at org.mapsforge.preprocessing.map.osmosis.MapFileWriterTask.release(Map
    FileWriterTask.java:192)
            at org.openstreetmap.osmosis.xml.v0_6.XmlReader.run(XmlReader.java:125)
            at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
    Sep 6, 2011 4:51:01 PM org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.pipeline.common.PassiveTas
    kManager waitForCompletion
    FINE: Task 2-mapfile-writer is passive, no completion wait required.
    Sep 6, 2011 4:51:01 PM org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.Osmosis main
    SEVERE: Execution aborted.
    org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.OsmosisRuntimeException: One or more tasks failed
    .

Does anyone know  where to put the "bbox" command line parameter?

Thanks,

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis

Thanks Jusc,

But I already looked at //http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Detailed_Usage and I could not find anything specific on the formating or placement of the bbox parameter except under "--write-pgsql (--wp)" and that is not what I want to do.  Everywhere I place it in the "--rx file=test.osm --mw file=test.map" command I get errors that the "bbox" is not a recognised type or does not exist.

Does anyone else have to add this command-line parameter to Osmosis?

Add feature to display vector maps overlain on raster maps.

Multiple raster maps with a transparency setting for the top layer would also be useful.

I want to import my own map data, but I am having trouble converting to the *.map format.

I have working osm files ready, but when I use Osmosis and MapFileWriter to convert, Osmosis output is telling me "Please provide valid bounding box via command line parameter 'bbox=minLat,minLon,maxLat,maxLon'."  

Does anyone know  where to put the "bbox" command line parameter?

Thanks,