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OMG, legend is probably really time consuming. I'm hesitant to start working on it.

It is, but working on it also helped me a lot to fix many inconsitencies and to improve the coherence of my theme.

There's some significant color change ZL 14->15, is that intended?

Yes, colorizing national parks and natural reserves is not really useful at high zoom levels, and it could make harder to identify vegetation and geology (e.g. when a rocky area is shown in green). I would like to only draw the boundary and not fill the content, but the bug with tile rendering prevernts me to do so.

Thanks for the typo.

Hello everyone,

I have made a thoroughly updated version of Bernard's OutdoorV4 theme, which has been renamed "Hike, Ride & Sight!"

The aim was to add almost all the tags available in OpenAndroMaps maps, especially those related to hiking and MTB, while keeping the map as easy to read as possible. I also fixed a lot of minor problems with the original theme.

I decided not to have theme variations (bike, hike...), which I find impractical, but to have a long list of layers that can be switched individually to focus on your exact needs and keep the map uncluttered.

The hard part was creating a map legend, and I found that plain HTML+SVG was the way to go to keep the legend maintainable.

I hope it will be useful to others; let me know if you find any problems!

Jérôme

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Legend
Install in Locus

Yes, you have to refresh the page to update the position.

It is currently not opensource; I am a newbie with python/php/javascript so my source code is probably not a good base for anything else...

All is explained in https://arkluz.com/trk : create a live tracking service, adjust the parameters with the name of the group, user, and password. If you want to simultaneously send your position, and see the positions of your friends, do not forget the "show = 1" parameter. Then start the live tracking service in Locus.

No sure what you mean by "local map app".

If you want to view your teammates from the web, use the viewer login at https://arkluz.com/trk, then click the Tracks or Positions button.

If you want to view them from Locus, follow "Creating a Live Tracking service in Locus Map to only receive the tracks of some others people" at at https://arkluz.com/trk, then start the tracking

It would be amazing if we could upload a GPX track(via the web interface) so the viewer could know the planned route

This has now been implemented! You can also add a textual comment that will be added to the notification email, e.g. the expected time of arrival.

Can i delete the old tracks so than i only see the last one?

Tracks are automatically deleted after 7 days, but you may now delete them immediately from the web interface.

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I guess it only sends the e-mail on the first daily startup

True; if you need to change the email address, either wait for the next day, or choose a new group name or a new user name

another suggestion, a way to change the displayed timezone

No way to change the time zone, but the local time zone will now be used (i.e., the time zone at the location the tracking started, and at the time the tracking started, in case there is a border crossing or a daylight saving time change during the tracking...)

You now need to register (this is free) a group name with a password to avoid problems if multiple users try to use the same group name.

It would be amazing if we could upload a GPX track

I will think about this, thanks for the suggestion!

There is a single track per day; you can't reset it.

If you view the track from the main page (entering the group and user name), you view today's track.

If you (or rather, if the email's recipient) view the track by clicking the link in the received email, he sees your track for that day (the email will be sent once, for each day you record a track). The tracks are deleted from the server after 7 days.

The email addresses are of course not collected, nor used for any other purpose.

No special plan; I set it up for my own use and for my friends, but if it is useful to others...

Hi,
I set up a custom live tracking service for Locus.
It can be accessed at https://arkluz.com/trk
Let me know if there is any issue with it!
thanks

Yes, the server chooses to return a gpx/kml or not, but the issue is that Locus should not require the GPS to be on, and the position to be accurate, and to have moved, to use and update this live tracker.

Thanks, I did that https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/27907-custom-live-tracking-improvements

Hi,
It seems that the latitude/longitude parameters are mandatory when creating a custom live tracking; I think it would be very useful to let create "view only" live trackings to see the positions / traces of other people without transmitting your own position. When these parameters are omitted, of course the minimal distance and accuracy should be ignored, and the absence of movement or disabling the GPS should not prevent live tracking to work.
I have not tried to see if the server can return a kml/kmz file, instead of a gpx?
Also, I did not find a way to rename a live tracking setting.
Finally, maybe some parameters could be set to be sent only when starting or stopping the tracking, and not for scheduled connections; this would allow to differentiate someone who stopped tracking non-voluntarily (no battery, no signal...) or voluntarily, or to purge previous positions.
(for Locus Map Classic)
Thanks!

Hi,
I have set up a live tracking CGI on my server, but instructing my friends how to configure it in Locus is complicated (with all the parameters to the URL etc).
Would it be possible to support an action URL, like for downloading offline maps, so I can send my friend an URL to click to configure live tracking with all my custom parameters? (Locus Map Classic)
Thanks!