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Thank you for the analysis.
On spare time, I will try this comparison with hopefully similar parameters in both apps.

Hello,

in another forum (//http://www.android-hilfe.de/karten-navigation/157283-ist-denn-nun-besser-locus-oder-oruxmaps-3.html#post5792368) , where there is a discussion about Locus and Orux I saw this picture about energy consumption in Locus vs. Orux while tracking:

http://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/6609 ... 125610.jpg

If this is really authentic, I mean if a thorowly test on more than one device with more than one OS etc. would show the same result, would it be possible to reduce the energy taken by locus while tracking?
Or could it be some mis-settings in the tracking that Locus consume more energy?

Thank you!

frank

...at least a kind of restricted navigation can still be done with such a track: http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php/manual ... gs:guiding
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- Tracks/Notify when too far away from track
- Tracks/Text to speech
...
it works best on tracks which contain only points where a change of direction needs to be indicated. In case you follow a straight way and the track contains points every few meters you will get many instructions of the kind "go straight"...

Thank you for this hint, I will try it soonly

...2. track you see on map, cannot be used for a typical voice navigation. Because you do not see an icons with actions on crosses, I think this is a problem. Where did you get this track? Was it working you before for this track?

I understand! I think it was just a big misconseption from me to think any track could be used as navigation track.
This track was coming from GPSies, where I constructed it. It is not coming from Locus as a previous navigation, so this surely is why there is no way to use it as a navi path, I understand now.

Thank you for clearing this!

frank

Is it possible that it is not anymore possible to create a navigation through a saved track?
Look:
[attachment=0:sexiq7ag]track-to-guide-only.png[/attachment:sexiq7ag]
There is only the option to guide, but no button for the navigation like before.
I think that there was another button before, unfortunately the screenshots in my previous post were gone because the dumb picture saving service stopped suddenly (uploadscreenshot.com).

EDIT: I found the screenshots in a backup, so I could again upload them. You can see, that it is different now.
Is it possible that this is just a setting? But which?
I uploaded the actual Screenshot now to this forum, I have no faith to all these free picture services anymore. They can disappear from one day to another

Yes, it works again
Thank you for the update

Ok, so I just wait for the next update.
No problem then, if backward compatibility is given.
Thank you.

Good heavens!
Locus doesn't show anymore older maps?
Great
Why like this?
Now I need to downgrade locus, if I still want to use my "old" but perfect working maps??
Not a good update then.

Hello
Since the last update 2.11.0 my vector maps don't work anymore.
I get an error:



What is it?
Frank

Ah, ok. Yes, thank you!

Hello

when using the navigation from locus, I missed very much a fast switch to keep the display on all the time.
I use locus navi mostly in the car where I have power access, so I don't need to save battery.
If the display fades off, which is normal in normal use, the navigation is interrupted and I need manually to switch it on again. While driving this is not the safest thing

Isnt it possible to introduce a fast switch to keep the display on all the time or switch back to automatic when navi is over?

At the moment I use a fast switch for this with Widgetsoid, which is not too handy but better than going all through the OS settings.

Thanks.

frank with locus 2.9.2 on Samsung Galaxy S2 with OS 4.1.2 (root)

Still on 2.3.5, because JB for Samsung Galaxy S2 (stock) is only coming maybe March or April 2013 along the rumors

My problem with the USB was indeedly a personal XP problem. There was a inf-file that was missing on that PC, I discovered it after a lot of search.

But back to the initial problem with the GPS errors: I never had any of those africa-jumps in the last months.
I tracked the last two weeks (in CSR) on a hike every day and never had a problem.
But I tracked with MyTracks, this needs less battery as Locus tracking (about the half, I guess), but these errors are not related to Locus anyway.

frank

Now, after some days of hiking I can definitely say that the far best map for hiking here in CSSR it's the SHOCart map (relief+ hiking).
The other two are mostly not usable because the main hiking paths are often just missing.
I am very happy that I downloaded this map manually and I think the next time I would just buy it in the shop because it is really useful.

[MTB CR]

Ok, with the little help of Bluestacks (which can emulate many Apps on the PC/Mac) and Wireshark, I discovered the appropriate mapsources for MTB CR and OpenTrackMap (for use in MOBAC):

MTB CR

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customMapSource>
<name>Custom MTB CR</name>
<minZoom>0</minZoom>
<maxZoom>18</maxZoom>
<tileType>png</tileType>
<tileUpdate>None</tileUpdate>
<url>http://tchor.fi.muni.cz:8080/mtbmap_tiles/{$z}/{$x}/{$y}.png</url>
<backgroundColor>#000000</backgroundColor>
</customMapSource>
OpenTrackMap

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customMapSource>
<name>Custom OpenTrackMap</name>
<minZoom>0</minZoom>
<maxZoom>16</maxZoom>
<tileType>png</tileType>
<tileUpdate>None</tileUpdate>
<url>http://opentrackmap.cz/static/{$z}/{$x}/{$y}.png</url>
<backgroundColor>#000000</backgroundColor>
</customMapSource>
Curiously I sniffed into SHOCart as well and here it is only with a kind of code, e.g.:

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services.tmapserver.cz/stiles/gm/shc/13/4400/2757.png?m=l&t=1356887023&k=W2FShwuHre0ipLBDM1NMpw
which gives an 403 (forbidden) if it is not the right one.
This is totally clear, because these maps are for pay download only.

But to have a complete set of maps, I downloaded the SHOcard hiking+relief map for my region online with locus (just by moving the map through the Böhmen region in each zoom level I need).
After this I copied the sqlite-map from

/Locus/mapsOnline/SHOCart_Hiking+relief.sqlitedb

to

/Locus/maps/SHOCart_Hiking+relief.sqlitedb

so I hope it wont be unusable after seven days (which is a bit too simple, though).

I hope all this is not illegal, as I use it totally for my own and private purpose.

frank

I was on this link first, it is interesting, but not working for me.
OpenTrackMap in Firefox or any browser behaves different as if called from Locus.
Maybe a code given from locus too, didn't check it yet (with Wireshark), but I think so.

The site is giving the tiles only very slow and not all of them. I won't be able to download maps with MOBAC like this.

At the moment the best what I can do is to download the tiles I need with BlueStacks and just use the images without locus like in older times when we used paper maps