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Sometimes a small amount of work can geenrate a new user who might otehrwise have gone to anotehr app..
 especially with a feature that a lot of otehr apps have, and that is understandable....

But....we dont want to be left behind with other key features...

Like this idea https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/30591-horse-trail-speed-categories
ive got a local horse riding group, a lot of them are my clients, they all use an app thats a bit like Strava for horseriding, it has no decent mapping so they all take paper maps with them with trailhhighlighted,  but they wont change to locus a) because tehre are a lot of iphone users   b) the locus track recording wont seperate out and provide statistics for different types of riding ( canter, gallop, trott etc)

im hoping that V2 data manager might be able to extra functionality in what data fields the routes/tracks have

I'm surprised about the Android Auto focus, won't that create a ton of suggestions related to car/truck navigation? And LM can never compete with the big ones, but people will expect it. You already have many big topics ahead of you... Apple support, Database v2, web/sync etc.

@Andrew point simplification has always been possible, but via config file. Menion seems to move more and more settings out of the dark into expert settings.

I agree,  im puzzled as to why so many people wanted it...
i see some sense in people want to one app for offroad and car navigation....but there is a point where there might be requests for advanced android auto features, and a line should be drawn as this might advantage only a few users.....

"My Library", perfect name IMO. "My" is absolutely necessary, and Library is shorter than "Tracks and points". "Data" would be unclear.

I give a vote for My Library as well...

Ah, it was you 

Sharing of the whole folder also because of possible collaboration on the same data, is, as I probably wrote, one of the biggest motivations for this big change in the Data manager/My library system. Slowly, but we are getting closer

:-) 

Does sharing of library include attachments, does this mean that attachments accessible from the web planner might be on the plan soon?

[@Neoaliphant]

@Neoaliphant
"mount of GPX folder structure" > no please  . We may later think about some kind "import whole structure", but it should be a bigger change and to be true, I hope it won't be necessary.

Btw. sharing of a single folder already exists as an idea here and is planned on the next year. This big change is a necessary step.

Excellent, i posted the idea after making the above post....realised ny names were different on both forums....have fixed...

in a similar way, could people (gold) share sections of their own library that could be mounted, so when they update, otehr people would see the updates.....

This would be an idea that would allow larger groups working on a project to keep their data up to date.

Just posted as idea on the helpdesk
https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/36359-share-sections-of-data-library-and-other-users-be-able-to-mount-them

@freischneider   There wasnt any text to your post.....

Just an idea..

could imported gpx folder structure be "mounted" in a lower part of the point/folder system, and then could be unmounted when not needed, keeping it seperate from the user library....

in a similar way, could people (gold) share sections of their own library that could be mounted, so when they update, otehr people would see the updates.....

@Neoaliphant: Locus Map requires Android 6.0 or higher. Therefore, an SGS7 should not be a problem and it is not.

yes, LM needs A6, and SGS7 is A8, and obviously it runs,  but an app being able to install and run does not mean the app view correctly...


A DM99 smartwatch that has 2gb ram, A8 but a 2 inch screen will not view the menu correctly either even tho is A8...

it would be good if LM4 would display well on low res screens as I intend to get an android watch at some point....

So a problem in portrait mode with certain display sizes? SGS7 ist not sooo small. ;-)

the S7 is 8 years old, and only runs up to A8,  and has a tiny 5.1 inch screen, even with screen res of 1440 x 2560 pixels,
BUT
the viewport size is only 360x640.....you can see by how lare percentage of screen the keyboard takes up.....

might be worth reducing text size to see what the difference is
https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/how-to-adjust-the-font-size-and-style-on-your-galaxy-phone/

It was also mentioned to have a point in several folders. This can of course be done by copying.

@freischneider the problem is: modify point in 1 folder, now inconsistent with any other copies

Exactly, this has been a problem for me for years....

I mentioend this as an idea a long time back...

but the Android Tacical Kit, which is used by paintballers, airsofters, military and emergency responders has a lot of similar functionality with Locus, but there are a lot of things ATAK does that locus doesnt

I was wondering what extra features we could add to locus to make it more usefull as an alternative to ATAK


for example, being able to share the url of a video feed of a camera/drone to a chat group....
using a tasker scene button/locus dashboard button to send PTT voice emssage to chat roup

Updating chat status using tasker

being able to send a locus message that triggers an emergency alert/SOS if member of party in trouble.


sending manual check in requests to a team to check on everyones safety..

updating chat status based on incoming SMS message

Using LORA with locus..

a point in several folders.

The thing about points, for example if I have a folder called castles, and i add photos, descriptions, opening times...with new system its easy to have Castles as a folder within Places to visit etc

but if for exampel wanted to have a collection of points for an upcoming holiday...

what would eb easy is to have a text field in each POI, and we can put in free tags....

and then below the folders we have saved searches, and one of teh search criteria could be tags

this would give the functionality of a point being in multiple folders ( just tag in advance) but also be usefull for people who repeatedly search for things.....

A long time ago you mentioned a trips system

This could be achieved by allowing

1. Folders to have extra properties, description, orl, atatchments, in the same way that POI do...

2 For pois and tracks to e able to be placed in multiple folders ( so folders become tags/labels)


What are the chances for new library to include these?

re: compass etc. - no, was badly prepared, laziness, didn't take things serious enough 😑

Thats gracious to admit it tho...