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For me, the new hill shading is far too dark and obscures detail in mountainous regions.
1. Pro | 2. Beta

The release notes said this was an improvement!

New beta version today redraws much more slowly than current pro version. Is it the hill shading?

I am not yet much aware about XML theme files.
I would like to try to make the lines more visibles.
What should I look for in the XML file (color, thickness, ...) ?
It would be great if I could make the contour line as a pair of black+white lines side by side to increase the contrast.

I'm sorry about the two contour.xml files in the zip. My fault. I've now uploaded a corrected zipfile in my previous post above.
The lines are a very pale green with a grey outline.
The colours are defined by

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stroke="#4A5255" and

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stroke="#B5C7A1 and

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fill="#B5C7A1" Two colours appearing several times. You can do a global search and replace: for example, #FFFFFF would be white and #000000 would be black.

The thickness is defined by

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stroke-width="1.4dp" with various thicknesses for differing zoom levels. That needs approaching with some care, seeing what gives you the look you want.

It would be quite easy to do that with a custom theme for an offline vector map.

In the screenshot below, the overlay map is an appropriate vector map, the theme is contours (attached). Blend mode is SRC_OVER.

Both Locus Maps and OpenAndroMaps maps have contour lines with height marked for major intervals.



Updated upload

Updated in the first post again.
Voluntary Orux is no longer needed -- use Voluntary Atlas for Oruxmaps, Atlas and Cruiser

The main changes are:
- Added Contraflow cycleway in one way street;
- Added mountain bike trails
- Reworked all symbols with slightly transparent thin border for subtly improved visibility
- Updated key

I'm not 100% sure that I understand, but probably yes. And well, it's an new undocumented feature. It works now that if you are in range 75% - 125%, then zoom in/out round this value to full scale. If you are in range below 75% or in 125% - 175%, then scale should remain. Well, this is just for a testing for now and few days/weeks of usage shows if this is usable and logical or not.

So I do a two fingered zoom in on a vector map to see a feature more clearly. I end up at say zoom 19 at 168%. I click a [ - ] button a few times to return to a smaller zoom -- but whatever zoom I go to stays magnified to 168%. I don't like that.
To return to a standard zoom level I have to do a two fingered zoom to the range 75% to 125% and then press [ - ] or [ + ]. I don't like that either. Maybe others do.

I've used Geonames quite a bit for offline search. For some reason I hadn't used GNS until just now. A combination of offline maps, offline routing  and offline search works well.

The GEOnet Names Server has moved (used in offline searches)
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The new version gives Great Britain as the map name correctly. Good. Sadly it no longer recognised the great_britain.osm.db database file I downloaded as beta and have been using for a while.

I suppose that makes some kind of sense but it didn't seem obvious to me when i was using the map.
My conclusions about the circumstances where it happened were wrong!

If I do a two finger zoom, and then zoom with the + or - buttons, or with the volume keys, map zoom jumps to a regular value, eg Z13 @ 100% (or Z13 @ 125% if I have "Increase map resolution" set to 125%).
If I do a two finger zoom TWICE and then zoom with the buttons, Locus behaves as above UNLESS I have "increase map resolution" set. In that case the zoom is stuck at whatever random value I ended up with from my two finger zoom, eg Z13 @ 168% goes to Z14 @ 168% not Z14 @ 100%.
To get out of the locked zoom I have to do a single two finger zoom after a button zoom, and then do another button zoom.
I hope you understand my explanation and can reproduce this or I'll have to illustrate with a load of screenshots.
And please don't tell me it's an undocumented feature.

Just to say, I now find  I can scale the overlay symbols by scaling map icons etc to 130% in settings (it goes up in 10% increments), but the nearest map resolution scaling I can get is 125% (it goes up in 25% increments). That works well enough for me but it would be nice to be able to get them both exactly the same.

The map theme is Voluntary, available for free from the Locus store.
By Usage | Graphic | Map themes | Voluntary UK

[United Kingdom]

With the latest bugfix release, the extra .osm has disappeared from the title bar (thanks) but my Great Britain map from OAM is now titled "United Kingdom" in the title bar, although it displays the correct name in the map selection dialogues. Odd.
Not only odd, though, but wrong. United Kingdom is not the same as Great Britain. GB is a geographic name for England, Wales, Scotland but none of Ireland. UK is the political name for GB plus Northern Ireland.