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Hi Michael

Which Android VM are you using

Oracle Version 5.0.10 r104061
and androVM_vbox 86tp gapps-houdini-flash

Wolfgang

Danke, Wolfgang.
Meine klingt zumindest ähnlich: androVM_vbox86tp_4.1.1_r6.1-20130222-gapps-houdini-flash

yes, i use
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakegps&hl=de
inside VM.
It´s simple, work with OSM maps, all others i found need installed Googlemaps on VM and this didnt work for me

Hi balloni55,
I wondered why my VM is not visible, now I see that it does not provide GPS at all to be spoofed ...

Which Android VM are you using ?

TXs and cheers
Michael

yes,  for testing I used 2 devices
fake GPS sounds interesting to me ! is that an app in VM?

Not much testing I see this morning, except fifi (from New Caledonia!), and Menion (the home of Locus) ...

@balloni55: how did you manage to keep your position in the middle of Stuttgarter Kreuz for half an hour at least ?
zossebart I could see moving from a village to a shelter in a forest

There is a theme section at openandromaps.org

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Wichtig wäre auch, dass POI DBs und LoMaps getrennt bezogen werden können !
OAM in Kombination mit Locus POIs - das wäre perfekt.

Enjoy :-)

Have you tried OpenAndroMaps (free of charge, BTW) with Tobias' themes ?
You can at least switch maybe 20 categories on/off.

PS: or to support the upcoming POI DB mechanics that mapsforge is building.
I do not know details, but have seen a specific web directory with some files that point in this direction.

http://download.mapsforge.org/maps/multilingualpoi/

But that beast is not reachable any more.

Lonely heroes are nice in movies, but not in SW business :-)
At least not good for users/customers ...

Your current, beta POI DBs are working with online maps as well as with other sqlite map DBs. That means they are not locked into any of the Locus vector maps. Which is great.

Except the naming convention. Which is unneccesary - to say the least.

You do have all the mechanics to know which maps are "near" - just apply the same logic to the POI DBs - independently from the vector maps. I.e. the POI DB has to have its own "bounderies" included, which is trivial to achieve when generating the POI DB.

And as a corollary the POI DBs need to have their own download mechanics, i.e. paying for POI DBs only if you are using other maps.

Yes, Menion, I know that you and team are working on that.
And my observation raised alarm bells.
In the past it used to be relatively open - maps and POI DBs were independent from each other. Now they are bound to LoMaps and start to be proprietary.
Also: MapsForge, and the OAM folks are working on POI improvements, too. I am not deep enough into this subject to judge if these things will be compatible, or if the eco system will be flying apart by uncoordinated, isolated activities ...

Do these three parties (Locus, OAM and Mapsforge) talk to each other regularly ?

From earlier times I have many POI DB files along the OAM map files in mapsvector folder. In the past Locus recognised them all,  regardless of available map files and their names.
Since a while a POI DB file is only recognized if there is a map file with the same prefix name. E.g. austria.osm.map  and austria.osm.db will show you the austria.osm POI file in the selection list. If there is only austria.map,  you will not see austria POI file. This is obstructive and not justified. POI DB should work even with online maps and not a single offline map. Pls. do not take your users hostage of the Locus vector map store.
Thank you.

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Have you configured Locus to run as a service?  Otherwise Android easily may remove Locus from the active tasks. Also allow Locus to prevent screen lock. Even if Locus was not in the foreground, it always continued logging GPS status for 100s of tracks for me.
In addition there are system tools outside Locus that may be configured to switch off automatically things like mobile data, WiFi and more ...

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Das ist der interne Speicher.

Yes, Menion, this was one of the topics.
Then device independent display (high density display issue) is another topic in below.

As a comp.science guy make take/advise is: spare the time to implement a library choice, BUT reserve regular time to include features from mapsforge 0.3+ that make a real difference to users. This is all about compatibility to new, fully featured .map files from other suppliers (like fzk, OAM, ..). So your users/customers get most from the time you invest.

Cheers
Michael