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I have thought about the topic of merging as well, since I primarily download maps on my tablet, but I may also download them, at least in certain places, on my phone.  I'd ideally like to upload these two to my computer, merge, and download again.  Right now it goes Tablet->PC and Phone<-PC (in both cases the device initiates over rsync).

I was thinking I could simply dump and combine or something in sqlite programatically, but haven't experimented yet.  Most solutions on the internet about combining or merging multiple sqlite tables are to examine them in a virtual table which is not written to disk, only that you're examining the set of data from multiple tables in a single table, where I'd like to merge them into a single table and write that to disk.  I just need to experiment some, but I think it might be as easy as dumping both databases into a new database.

sqlite3 database-from-phone.sqlitedb .dump | sqlite combined.sqlitedb
sqlite3 database-from-tablet.sqlitedb .dump | sqlite combined.sqlitedb

Quick test of this and it does work..  I went into offline mode, cleared cache on a map type I don't use, went online, grabbed some tiles, went back into offline mode, exited Locus.  Did this in two different locations on Phone and Tablet, merged the two databases per the example above, downloaded it back to the phone.  Both locations I viewed are viewable.  Just to double check I'm not seeing any immediate "read only" weirdness (I have a thread on this, can't update a database I copied from one device to another) I went into Online mode, explored around a bit, back into offline mode, exited.  Ran Locus again and the new tiles were still in the database.  Yay!  So looks like this is viable.

My largest database is 440M and it takes about 10s to dump, so no issue on how long it'll take to dump, merge..  I'm thinking 30-40s for the largest map to merge is reasonable, I have 1.2G total, I figure maybe 90s tops to merge all of them.

should be for you solution, to directly upload field notes data to server or in this case, you'll still want to be able to upload only part of these FN? Hmm I'm not sure if anyone except you, find this useful

Having the last log my own is enough for me.. I know I wouldn't want to manually pick X number of logs from a database to upload, unless it was fairly automatic.

So what do the colors mean?  I only see blue and red?  And did you take a picture of your phone?  No screenshot app?

Thank you, but i know this funktion.
It would be nice to see a line or a point in the height profile where i am on the track,like in "apemap"
I think it is very helpful in mountainbiking.

Agreed, before and during the ride it could be useful.  What would also be nice if I could create tracks of various trails and combine them in different ways to compare them in terms of vertical pain  I'd rather ride a mile around a hill than climb 400 feet and go straight over it.  I hate hills though..

Is it useful to you to see the trail on the map view in terms of altitude, or just within the track details?  Both?  Maybe Menion would put it on the todo list

You can do this, but not on the map..  Just in case you haven't see that function I'll walk through it, it's handy for me.

Data->Tracks.  Tap Track, click Fill altitude.  It'll take a few minutes, especially if it's a large track.  When it's done, tap the Track again and click Information, then Chart.

Agreed, it would be handy to see some altitude information on the track, but how would that be done...  Show a certain shading based on the grade?  Like say your track is blue, it shades to brighter green the larger the decent grade, shades to red the higher the ascent grade?  I think it'd be useful, especially hiking or cycling.

It would also be handy if once this Altitude data is filled to be able to see each point on the map's altitude.  You can see it if you click the point and then click the i icon for Information, but would be nice to see the altitude hover over the point like any other waypoint that has altitude information associated.

Not sure this is the best place to ask, but is it possible to save Field Notes into the waypoint notes?  I'd love to have that data stored with the waypoint/geocache forever.    Right now I can see it until I delete the field notes file, which I of course do after I upload it.

Here's how I use Locus most times...

I use my Dell Streak 7 (7", Android 2.2) tablet to download and review maps, set up tracks, explore around, and generally do most of my playing around in Locus.  I geocache and benchmark, so I tend to do a fair amount of time looking on topo maps for marked BM's that I don't have in my points database, and when I find one, I add it to the database so I can find it easier later.  So the Tablet has the latest databases, both map and points.

My phone, also a Nexus One, I actually use "in the field" geocaching and benchmarking, and I use it in offline mode as much as possible to avoid downloading map data etc on the fly.  Ideally the only data I'm using here is for routing information, although I do have unlimited data, data = battery use.

So what I do is use RSync for Android (in the market) to transfer /sdcard/Locus from my Tablet up to my computer, then I do the reverse for the phone, the phone uses RSync for Android to download the directory on my computer.  That way the two stay in sync on maps and categories/points.  You can always do this over USB Mass Storage of course, I tend to do all of my backups using rsync so I can just do it over wifi.

Big caveat right now that Menion is working on....  When I do this, the databases seem to be "read only" after I put them on the phone from the tablet, I can't update them.  So I've for now do NOT transfer the categories, I only transfer the maps.  So I am importing my Geocaching data into both tablet and phone for the time being.  This is acceptable for me for now, as I intend to only really download new map data on the tablet, although I will at times download new map data on the phone.  It'd be nice to merge the map data between the two devices, but that's probably fairly complicated to do but would not be impossible.  Two separate locations for the map databases, dump, combine....  Haven't tried it, but should work in theory.

If I want to transfer categories or tracks, what I do is Export them and click "Also Share" and I send it to Dropbox.  Then I download it on the phone and import it.  Pretty fast process and I can do it about anywhere.

Verified the first set of stuff is fixed, thanks so much Menion!

Is there a way to stop navigation and delete the track easily?  Stop navigation is easy enough, but tracks is data->tracks->track->delete->yes.

I think it does seem to over-write the previous track, so making track after track is probably not a big deal, just have to delete the one track when I'm done, but it'd be nice to be able to stop navigation and remove the track in one step.  

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licence check is done once per 90 days or after updates that ends with 0.0, so for example when I'll update to version 1.20.0, it will also perform licence check. Anyway even when some critical problem occur and it will really need to check in deep woods, you'll still be able to use app as Free version, so with some limitation. It's the worst case ..

Okay, then that's no problem.  Don't think I'm actually using any Pro features anyway, just support, and no ad bar

Menion,

What's the license check frequency?  Curious, given the nature of this program (offline caching etc), am I ever going to fire it up in the middle of nowhere and it refuse to run because it can't do its Nth day or Nth launch license check?  Could you outline what the parameters are here?  And is there any sort of temporary allowance, such as it'll complain but still function, but if it can't check its license in a day or something it'll stop working?  

Use case:  I'm in the woods, it decides to check.  I can deal with it nagging/warning but I can't have it just outright say "no".  I'll be able to let it check in later in the day, but I need it in the next few hours to cache/hike.

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I've seen a few apps in the past that will analyze the data and if things are moving fairly consistantly in a straightish line, point records will go slower, but if you're accelerating or turning, the points will increase.  Now this pretty much assumes a location is being taken every 1-2 seconds or so for this to have accuracy in turns, just the data is not recorded if not necessary.  So in terms of actually gathering data, it probably doesn't help, but it does reduce unnecessary track points.

But the real reason I'm responding is to suggest if you need to record tracks often, I suggest you get a bluetooth GPS.  It'll greatly reduce battery consumption vs the internal GPS, it's more accurate, more sensitive, and you could even opt for one that has a built-in track logger and not use the phone at all to do it!  Of course for live tracks, or a 'record in, follow out" type of scenario you'd want a the phone to record it.

Personally for all of my tracking I have a Columbus V900 that has a built-in track log and I record everywhere I go and then the data is analyzed (per the first paragraph) based on some parameters (I have a default, or I can specify walk, bike, car, low, all, etc..) and it's imported into a database that I can view in a web browser against Google Maps, or live export from KML into Google Earth etc..  It's kinda neat if I'm curious the last or times I was at a location, going to that spot in Google Earth then turning on my "all time" KML and seeing points.  I have to click etc to see 'em, so it's not perfect, but several times has quickly answered 'when was I here last?" type questions.  I keep saying I'm going to write some code to summarize that for me, but never get around to it

Aha, hadn't looked in the settings for places, I'll write those down later, just to have 'em in one place  Just noticed one more I'm adding to the list, Point edit data, altitude is in Meters always.

Thanks!!  

EDIT:  I added the list I saw in the settings...  A few would be nice, but if it's lots of work honestly for me anyway they're not a big deal.  Maybe todo list items.  The in-app functions are much more important, like waypoint projections, stuff like that, which you already fixed.  

Surprised nobody else has chimed in here..  Maybe nobody else is stuck on the Imperial system?

I brought up in another thread: //http://forum.asamm.cz/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1117 the fact that there were a few mis-matched measurements, such as requesting a distance in Meters when set to Imperial measurements, etc..

One thing that came up was that Tom Tom voices only have Yards and Meters.  My opinion is that Menion should continue showing 600 feet on the display, but announce 200 yards.  What do you guys think?  Showing 200 yards would match better, but personally I'd prefer seeing feet.

I imported a geocache gpx into Locus. Tried to exclude (filter out) all found caches but filter displays that I have only found 5 caches instead of oves 700. But the the list containes all found caches. So now I have to uncheck all the found ones manually. What could be the problem?
Previously there haven't been such problem. It appeared after an update witch redesigned the look of POI list.

I'm not understanding this myself..  In the Points list, there's the filter icon that shows each type of cache in the list, as well as Hide Found and Hide Disabled.  If I check Hide Found, I only see the number of caches in this category which aren't marked as found.

I still wish there was also a way to see "Did Not Find" caches, but hiding found seems to work?