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 I agree 100% on those 2 topics!

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All databases was deleted from Google Drive because we had today published new version of Locus Map together with public official support for offline addresses.

They are now bound to LoMaps from Locus Store.

So for now it's needed to download new version of LoMaps from Store, to get these databases.

(Find old beta discussion here: http://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=5116 )

Which brings back the issue of missing option to download only the Address/POI DBs.
As we know, those work nicely with maps like Mapsforge or OAM, if you respect the naming convention.  Hence there is no justification to handcuff those LoMaps and Address/POI DBs.
You argued in the past that the LoCoins cover the server cost and traffic. Fair enough. So, why let people create useless traffic and make them pay for it, if they only need the Address/POI DBs ??
TXS and cheers
Michael


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Das nervt mich auch, und ich bin mit dem neuen Release alle Einstellungen durchgewandert. Kein Hinweis. Nun habe ich die Doku noch einmal gelesen und Track Popup ausprobiert. Damit bekommt man diese Info weg. Aber der Titel Track Popup ist unpassend! Diese permanente Infobox ist gerade KEIN Popup. Vorschlag: Track Infobox und Popup als Titel, und Grundeinstellungen zu Infobox umbenennen.

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Nun ja, kein Heldentum. Warten auf unser Gepäck von gestern ...

London:  25 MB hier
http://download.mapsforge.org/maps/europe/great_britain/

Viel Spass
Michael


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Hi Peter, da bist Du einen ordentlichen Schritt weiter.
Zu 1) OAM hat Höhenlinien zusätzlich zu den OSM Daten integriert. Das ist für Wales und Schottland,  generell Gebirge relevant,  aber nicht wirklich für London. Schaue dazu einmal nach mapsforge.org. Dort sind kleinere Maps
2) hat Wolfgang schon umfassend erklärt. Elevate und alle Themes von Tobias passen zuallen OAM maps.
3) da Du download limits erwähnst,  hast Du wohl Locus benutzt. Dann sollte die Karte bereits in Locus/maps zu finden sein. Gfls. nicht unter dem Namen London.

Schöne Grüße aus Syrakus
Michael


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Little time. Wake up call at 4 a.m. preparing for Sicily trip - cruising the Island with the help of Locus, of course. But you are right, Menion needs guidance to reproduce.
1)  search function,  them Move to ...,  then dead
2) Routing via button in right panel,  Brouter service is configured in settings. Routing screen does show up,  then dies after a second or so

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Das Thema hast Du nämlich auch bei 5.1.1 ...

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Bist Du innerhalb Locus den Weg zum / Verzeichnis gegangen, und von dort über /mnt o.Ä. wieder abgestiegen zur externen SD ?

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Da war balloni schneller :-)

Zu den Datenvolumina: die Karten im Locus Shop und bei OpenAndroMaps sidn Vektorkarten, die Detailtiefe mit relativ geringem Datenvolumen kombinieren. Beispiel: mit 2 GB bekommst Du ganz Deutschland, ganz Great Britain in 1 GB. Zoom level bis ca 19. haben noch zusätzliche Details (Bildschirmbreite entspricht ca. 200 m, aber je nach Auflösung des Smartphones)

Die erklärten Themes sind notwendig um diese Vektordaten zu interpretieren und in Bilder für den Screen umzusetzen, im Betrieb, ohne Bedarf an Platz auif der SD-Karte (von etwas limitiertem Cache zur Geschwindigkeitssteigerung abgesehen).

Viel Spaß
Michael

If you will want to place all features on screen at once, that yes, you are out of space .

The curse of good deeds- there are sooo many useful features :-) !
And I trust there will be more ...

Sorry, no, this is not increment by one !
If you start to USE the new and good features, then you are cluttered on the left side immediately - and cannot hide it.
And you will add more features over time, which should be accessible at a finger tip - on the bike, in the car, in the wild.
So you will run out of space soon.

Hi Menion, it makes a difference if you have one item of a kind, like the single button for map switch, or the thene switch,  or if something starts to multiply like rabbits. A single rabbitbis cute, if they flood your garden,  you feel differently ...

PS: currently my left hand side is nearly full with blue "rabbits" already,  andd we are just days into that development. And I would even like the idea of making the right hand buttons slimmer. Keeping the hight, though, to avoid tapping errors.

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I cannot comment on the code of Locus, but I do monitor processes and battery drain closely (3c toolset).
Once I close Locus, or after reboot, there is no Locus process left. No battery drain on my device.
Cheers
Michael

It's be a long and heavy working day ... now let me go through your comments and questions:

@michaelbechtold: to select overlay, you first needs to remove previous. Are there really needed two buttons - change, remove? Isn't this one enough?

MBe: I did not try remove, because I could not trust I get overlay back :-) Now I tried via remove and it works - thank you - here a second click (which is the trade-off ...) is not too much of an annoyance.
The switch overlay off option is a nice addition indeed.

...see at the bottom for remarks about the middle section of your reply.

Oki, so few more questions on you (please, short, clear answers):
- "double/missing item i the panel array" - what you are talking about?

MBe: on the left side there are those oversized blue buttons. Two of them have the same symbol - the layers. And both show the same content. In the earlier beta, one of them showed showed the overview, incl. your explanation text, and the other showed the visibility switches. Now both show the switches.

- "usability" - what is a problem here as no usability is lost. I still do not understand a problem here, at least I do not see it.

MBe: maybe I did not explore all angles. A standard principle is: useful functions should be allowed to sit on the screen (auto and double tap hiding assumed, of couse), but not need traversing option/menu trees. Yes, overlays can be put on a button still, which safes the day, hence it is redundant in the other menu. But the real topic is another one: a new concept has its justification if it is better than the existing ones. And you have a perfect mechanics in place with the button panels. Content and button position inside the panel: all in user hands. Visibility mechanics - perfect.
And now compare those new blue beasts ...
Screen space is valuable - oversized buttons like the blue ones are a simple waste, no added value.

You refer to your rule with Petr: others and I have made proposals how to improve these things ... days ago.

So, here again:
- rather than introducing a new, oversized category of buttons, use the existing mechanics and extend it to the left side.
- all of those new functions (nearest points, Panoramio, overlay on/off, OSM notes, etc.), which are really nice, BTW, should be available to be put on any panel
- as you accept redundancy anyway, you can offer the menu hierarchy in the blue master button as a button for the standard panel, of course
- offering a left side panel will simply cope with the increased number of interesting things a user may want to have on the screen

Makes sense ?

Cheers
Michael

Das klingt nach verändertem Pfadnamen für die externe SD. Füge eine neue EXTERNE Karte hinzu, und gehe im Dateifenster immer eine Ebene höher bis zur Wurzel / Dann suche nach mnt oder storage folder in einem von denen sollte ein Eintrag sein der nach externer SD riecht. Und darüber findest Du auch die alte Karte wieder. Ich hatte das Prozedere mehrfach über die Jahre. Jeder Hersteller benamst anders,  und manchmal auch unterschiedlich zwischen Android Releases

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