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Thanks.
It looks like I can force railway bridges over roads to render correctly without the correct layer tag (easy change) and also railway over railway (but I'm not sure if the added complexity to allow for incorrect mapping is merited).
Screenshot is of your location with modified theme.

The modified theme is available from:
https://voluntary.nichesite.org/downloads.html
https://voluntary.nichesite.org/beta.html

I confirm @karlchick's general analysis.

An example of this can be seen in the attached first pair of images showing LoMap/OAM with the latest v5 Voluntary theme, see how the mtb route is displayed in LoMap with blue/purple blobs but in OAM is only purple blobs.

OAM can display hiking, cycle and MTB networks at the same time  what it can't do is display more than one of each type of route at the same time. It always selects the "higher" route. International routes are preferred over national ones and so on.

The blue blobs on the MTB route in Voluntary in the Lomaps version are incorrect. There are not both MTB and bike routes along that road.  In the original map data, MTB networks may have values of icn, ncn, rcn, lcn like cycling networks. OAM changes those to imn, nmn, rmn, lmn to avoid confusion. I was testing on the network value which was ok for OAM but ambiguous for Lomaps. I have adjusted the test and the MTB route displays correctly in the latest beta version Voluntary V5 LE from https://voluntary.nichesite.org/beta.html

The latest Voluntary V5 LE  beta also shows highlighting on Lomaps as seen in the screenshot below.

A beta version of the Voluntary and Velocity themes to work with both this Locus beta app & maps and OAM maps is now available at:
https://voluntary.nichesite.org/beta.html


The new versions are named Voluntary V5 LE and Velocity V5 LE (Locus Edition)

1. The latest beta (4.15.1.2_1097) downloads but won't install for me. Do I need a gold or silver subscription?
EDIT: Aha! The latest "normal" version which I have installed is a higher version number.
2. What advantages will these latest maps have over OAM ones, particularly if you collaborate in unifying tag mapping etc.?

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@Tapio The "duckless" version was a special request with nature reserves shown differently, without the repeating duck overlay.

See the posts around the topic: https://www.openandromaps.org/en/oam-forums/topic/voluntary-uk/page/11#post-52358

The latest version of the Voluntary themes will display Ordnance Survey crag markings on the latest OAM maps of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, the Lake District and the Shetland Isles.
See first post to download.

If you don't mind digging into XML you could use an offline map and theme from openandromaps and modify the XML of the theme so that admin_level 4 is made thicker.


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If you can access the folder with the maps stored in it, rename (eg) england.osm.db to england.osm.dbx or similar.
Be aware that this will affect offline searching for places, and also pop up info on points.
You could rename the .db file associated with your other map as an alternative. Try it and see which suits you best.


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I believe OAM maps only include boundaries of admin level 1,2,3,4. I'm not sure about Lomaps but you can experiment with the theme.

Level=1 (supranational) is not rendered.
Levels 2,3,4,5,6 are rendered in this theme if they appear in the map data.

You can try the attached. Use in the same way as the contours files.
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https://kmu.files.cnow.at/s/xYbQ8XQtKKjypsW

Do you have a map with administrative boundaries that you want to use as an overlay?

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Would it be possible to have an alternative extension other than .lnk for the link to the legend for a theme? I have in mind, say, both .lnk and .link working.
Why? Currently it's a pain if you use Windows to prepare the files, as Windows assumes the file is a Windows shortcut, hides the extension and treats it accordingly.

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Yes, now fine for me. Thanks!

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Have you selected Dynamic Scale in the theme's style menu?

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Menu > More functions > LoPoints (offline) > triple dots (top right corner) and turn off "show on map".
These can come from the poi database associated with LoMaps or the database associated with OAMaps. The map doesn't need to be active for the database to be used. If you have both LoMaps and OAMaps points will be duplicated!
I believe that currently the symbol set used is the one from the theme selected for Mapsforge V3/LoMaps, even if the active map is a V4/5 map. If changing the symbol set is the issue, you need to have a LoMap installed (delete the .db file if you wish) and select it and your chosen V3 theme (Elevate LE) before switching to your V4/5 map. This only needs to be done once.




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