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#1
Troubles & Questions / Dynamic elevation -problem
December 10, 2016, 17:49:34
Like in Manual
Dynamic elevation-Displays altitude value at the map screen center. It is based on available online altitude public file sources.

It have worked for ca 3 years for me  but not today
http://oi67.tinypic.com/28whxcg.jpg
of course i have http://oi63.tinypic.com/2wbuyya.jpg


,Maybe it is in connection with  this Topic -http://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=5459.0
( sometimes i have this Srtm  and Vector map directory  Errror  )- i dont think it is becouse of Sd Card or becouse of Phone - i have new Smartphone and new SD Card but error sometimes occurs. .
#2
After few years of excellent( no problems)  working  finally duo Locus+Brouter  stop working for me.


Another problem - Entering Locus i get this screen


I have to go to ,Settings'' and give Vector map folder. It works for some time, probobly till new update ,i don't know
I have all my maps ( vector + raster ) and Brouter details ( segment, profiles ..)  on Micro Sd,

Where is the problem?
#3
Last version installed today.

When i tap my track/route on the map and as always try to choose Guidance- Locus crash imediatelly.
Communication-''Unfortunatelly Locus Pro get closed''
( when i tap Navigation it is OK ) 

( I need guidance only to have altitude profile and km to go)
#4
As in topic.

Few days ago I bought (used) Xperia Active , then went to GooglePlay to look for Locus Pro - but it is nothing.
( probobly- This app is not compatibile with the phone)

Not long  ago i used ( new ) Xperia Active and it was no Problem with Locus.( in sense possible to find in Google Play and install)

Here I see -
Android 2.3.4 
2.6.32.9-perf SEMCUser@SEMCHost#1
4.0.2.A.0.84- compilation number

Maybe this phone is to old for Locus newest version or.......  it was combination in System .?????

( Of course I can sent this phone eand get my money back , but it cost .....like nothing . If lLocus would working i prefer to give this phone a chance)

#5
Troubles & Questions / Adroid Kit Kat -Srtm Problems
December 04, 2014, 00:21:49
Today i made Phone( S4 MINI) upgrade from 4.2 to Kit Kat and some problems as written here http://www.locusmap.eu/locus-run-since-update-device-android-4-4-2-kitkat/

With maps i see no problems- it is possible to give a path to ext microsd (point C)  but what to do with SRTM files.

I have ca. 3gb ( all Europa) .
I know it is possible to copy part of these files  to Device Locus/Data/Srtm but maybe there is better solution????
#6
New topic ,becouse  i am not 100% sure.

I  have read here http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/bluetooth_sensors  that it is possible in Locus to connect Smartphone through Bluoetoth 4.0 technology with sport sensors like speed/cadence , heartrate . Is it true? 
If yes it works like Ant + , no problems???

What about energy consumpition compared with ANT + is it similar????

( I ask becouse i think  now it is no sense to wait for cycling( small , good battery,good photomaker ) Phone and nearly every new phone have bluetooth 4.0 .)
#7
Troubles & Questions / Dashboard Chart -
September 10, 2014, 23:36:53
 Is it possible to delete this traffic direction from Chart ?? How to do it , I want to see only altitude chart .



or


It looks awfully.

Another problem .I used to  work with Locus this way:
1.Create a route (track) from point to point  in Locus or sometimes in ,,Bikeroutertoaster''
2.Open this route in Locus ---
3. Try to fallow this route. I didn't use ''turn by turn ''nawigation   I saw little rectangle with track information as altitude , trip managed , trip left.......  .This rectangle automattically appearde and dissapeared again and again  ,.... it was very good.


In new versions i don't  have this rectangle .

Some time ago i didn't use ,,nawigation '' or Guide mode just opened a track.

Now (with Altitude Chart in Dashboard )   i  started ,,Guide'' but can see this rectangle only manually  ---when i target created track-then track changed colour and rectangle appear.

What is more when i didn't start ,,Guide'' just open a track still i dont have automatic ,, rectangle''




#8
I don't where can i found and turn on ANT+ in new version of Locus.

I see something like in previous version

but here i have no choice.

#9
Wishlist / Elevation signs on track
February 25, 2014, 11:19:47
Gennerally i don't like Garmin software but there are few interesting solution for cyclists (not only), mostly in ,,Altitude area.

See screens
      

There is a pink track  and little icon = signs of elevation. Signs are on the top of  the hill or on the bottom.

Then when we make zoom bigger( compared with screen 1)  we can see like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xyrzlrtg9j8m7hp/2779%20paint.jpg    
https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/352x440q90/62/x3bk.png  
https://www.dropbox.com/s/je5b7xkkvj3sr94/2779.bmp    All screens  raster maps in jnx format

Or on vector map

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ab7qs0qlt5uiu9c/7531%20%20paint.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wge41p9k4dhwyal/7734%20%20paint.jpg 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ab7qs0qlt5uiu9c/7531%20%20paint.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ktdrhb0dgrzimeh/7734.bmp
https://www.dropbox.com/s/khyp2bcnni6ldzl/2888.bmp

Here https://www.dropbox.com/s/07jaiiqarkde08o/526%20paint.bmp sign shows end of Downhill (begining of uphill).

Of course signs are not always  100% corectly placed it depends of Srtm/Dem files, but it is nice to see this elevation signs when cycling especilally in hilly regions.


Mod:
removed wrong links
#10
I know here https://getsatisfaction.com/locus/topics/altitude_profile is a topic about implementation altitude chart in Dashboard  i also hope for it in the future.

Now we have for ex. possibility to see like this:


But to see this chart we have to make 3 clicks :first  on the point of the map , then click settings and last one ,,see chart''. 

I think it will be practical to have possibilitty to set ,,Altitude Chart '' in right panel.

''Altitude Chart''- I mean- we import or create  a route to Locus ( see it on map)
Then when travelling    just click on right panel ( Altitude Chart) and we know what is ahead and what we have done.

Even simple chart like in Garmin for ex. is sometimes quite useful
(green - what we have done , blue what's ahead):


#11
Maps / rmap/sqlite maps on PC
November 19, 2013, 19:15:26
I have made few big (ca 1gb) maps (rmap/sqlite format) in Mobile Atlas Creator and wanted to see this maps on my Deskop ( or Laptop) is it possible?
I spent some time but was not able to find a software which can read this rmap/squlite format on PC.

I know, Locus read big maps but the problem is that my MICRO SD (32 gb) is almost full and every time  to try new created map i have to deleted something from the Card.

(Before, I used all maps in TwoNav Rmap (is it possible to open this format  via CompeGpsLand)  format ,but now I  wanted to work with MIXMAP option in Locus, i like this.
#12
Where can i see temperature from ANT ( Tempe) ?. Sometimes it is quite usefull information.

I know it is possible here http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7316/vo7j.png
but it would be much better to have this in Dashboard ( in Sensors i dont see Tempe right now)  or in Information Panel ( maybe instead of battery temperature) http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1773/8uvz.jpg
#13
Last few days i noticed  on my Locus (with Beta 2.15.1.2 ) some problems with incline values ( %).Ascent and Descent values are surely to high .

For ex.  my last track see enclose . When i read this gpx in Endmondo i see total ascent 1102 . But on my dashboard i saw something like 1900

I especially controlled one nearly flat segment ( ca 7 km)  but according to Locus dashboard i made ca 150 uphill meters.

Now values in inclination  especially  on  flat are unpredictable.Sometimes  this measurament jumped from -10 till +15  ( Yesterday i saw +70 % on maybe 5% hill)

I dont know if there where some changes in software regarding Altitude Calculation .Now the weather  is not stabile , pressure is very chengable but i havent seen something like this for a long period. 
#14
This is a second time when i get the same annoying screen after few hours of cycling


My screen was locked .I looked at screen but did nothing , i get this ''stupid'' screen.
 I don't know if it is becouse of Locus  or becouse of Android . I closed this screen but after few second i get the new one , and the new one....
So i found no solution and Turn Off my mobile.

It is interesting that in recorded track( see enclose) it is a little  ''whole''  in both track. See km ca.77 in track from Sunday 7 July and km ca. 57 in track from today . It is exactly when this screen started to appear.

( I dont know how it is in a new Version , still i am using older  one becouse of Ant + Problems. I have always Turned Off internet Transmission)
#15
Troubles & Questions / Ascent and Descent=0
April 29, 2013, 19:28:01
I see some problems with altitude in last Locus Pero Version.

After recording trip- Ascent and Descent ( total uphill and total downhill) values in my Dashboard are always 0. see

Also =0 when i tap ,,INFO''about current trip  see

But track altitude seems to be correct. see


In Locus Free Beta version generally works OK but sometimes i have to ,,open'' and ,,close'' Gps  to have not 0 but normal values in Acscent and DeSCENT
#16
Maps / Merge maps in rmap format( from TwoNav)
April 23, 2013, 19:57:05
Maybe somebody know a software where it is possible to merge few ,,rmaps'' ( format from TwoNav) into a single one ?

I know  it is possible in CompeGpsLand  but only in Full Version ( unfortunatelly my  30 days trial expired some time ago and Full version is too expensive i think ).

I tried convert with OziMapTrans  but it is a problem with calibration .I can get for ex. bmp or tiff file but without calibration file .( *.map or *.cal)


If i could get from RMAP -bmp or tiff + calibration file then it will be very easy but i see no possibility.
I tried also with software -,,Quovadis 6''  but this software can only save others map format into RMAP but can not  read rmaps. (This same  about MapC2mapC64)
#17
Troubles & Questions / Track export problem
March 30, 2013, 21:22:33
Some problems with track export.

When i did nothink just press OK after stop recording track. Then in folder ,,export'' i get -see enclose 1 ( no heart rate was recorded i dont know why)

Then i opened this same track in Locus end exported second  time ,change name and ...I get right file with heart rate   see enclose 2.

It was my mistake or Locus mistake???

( In one moment during recording after saving Photo Locus stops
#18
I don't know i should write here in ,,Problems'' or in ''Wishlist''. It  is  not a  ''crucial thing''    but maybe some place for improwements in ''algorythm for Baromether autocalibration''.  

I tried several times and only once when the wheather  was ''super excellent'' the attitude   from GPS+autocalibration was ok ( see attachement  1)  in recordered track.But wheather like this we have on 1 for 100 days i think. (If wheather is excellent then pressure is  high and this same attitude lower.)

Otherwise it is always about 40-50 meters to high. Even today, when the wheather ( near Turnov) was also good it was still +30-50 m to high.( see attachement 2)

I also recordered today this same route with TwoNav on  WinCe Gps Unit  ( without Autocalibration ) -screen

 Higher track is recorded by Locus with autocalibration , lower one Track from TwoNav.
Then i compared some points ( for example POLANA JAKUSZYCKA 886 M) with SRTM  and:  Locus shows as i wrote before little 30-40 m to high attitude and Two Nav little to low ---Maybe some compromise

( Sorry i use Xperia Active with built in Baromether)
#19
Wishlist / Power in watt- ( algorytm and ANT)
March 19, 2013, 16:27:05
We( cycling enthusiast ) have in Locus : heart rate, cadence.
I think it will be fine to have also POWER in Watt .

 There are 2 ways ( or maybe  more)  to ,,calculate'' this.

1.First -simply by ANT technology. It is the best ( most exactly ) method but also most expensive. Thinking about myself i will never pay 1000 euro for this technology.
2. Second-based on algorytm calculation

I am using this one  //http://www.sigma-rox.com/en/rox-highlights_en/leistung_en.html
with my cycling computer. And i am  pleased with it .

But it is possible to have others algorythm   like simple
//https://strava.zendesk.com/entries/20959332-power-calculations

Maybe the most interesting one will be
//http://www.cycleops.com/en/training/tools/calculators/watts.html

( ,,Similar'' to like Garmin GSC10 which counts Speed and Cadence , this Cycleops heart belt measured Heart rate and ....Power)

I know ,many say: when it goes to power calculation only SRM but for turistic cycling  ( for ex. to see how many watts can i produce on long climb) it is well enough.
#20
What is the best  - ,,landform'' for Locus.

I am using SRTM files with extension hgt ( this same as for Ozi Explorer). I don't know- my problem is becouse  :
a),, SRTM '' are not full ???
b),, It is a problem with Locus ???

What i mean. It is going about ,,DYNAMICAL ATTITUDE''. All screens are from Pic du Midi di Biggore region-Pyrenees. ( but in Alps i saw the same problem)

When i tap a screen normally i see attitude like this or


But sometimes i see ,,0'' like this
The text at the botton (in polish) means ,, For one point it is impossible to corectly calculate attiude''

Normally we doesn't care about this but... when we want to calculate ( or create) route and see Chart, descent and ascent of created route  it can be a little problem.

See this Chart ( with holes) of calculated ( by internet) route
and what's more INFORMATION details see

Total ascent 15000 m.....???? It is a long climb (This is climb to Midi di Biggore  ( Col de Tourmalet is on the road)),  but of course ascent will be less then 2000m not 15000 it is impossible.
The additional  13000m is becouse of points of the road where Locus ( or SRTM) could not calculate attitude ( 53 points)

( For 53 points it was impossible to corectly calculate attitude)

I tried to see the same map in TwoNav with Europa DEM and in this same part of the map i always get ,,normal'' attitude ( no 0) like this



I dont know where is the problem?


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