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I am also willing to support, maybe collaborative country-teams might be a solution.

I guess you already have special characters in view, e.g. german umlauts, ö<>oe etc.
tourism is 'Tourimus' and generally the words should also be added separately, like some others already (Essen, Trinken).

Popular searches (fast food, discounters, gas stations, etc.) might help, whatever that might include and it will extend and grow with more and more searches. Sure, advanced and just a filter that might be added anytime somewhere in your lookup-filter-chain. Just a thought.

This is tricky sure, see my vid, searching for 'mc do' needs to  trigger search 'mcdo', whitespaces, and very probably the popular 'Mc Donalds' is meant. Just as stupid example.
'mc dö' might possibly be a search-suggestion as list-item for searches around german locations. Some might be looking for 'Mc Döner', like suggested in the vid, just zillion miles alway.
What if you type 'mill' ? are you searching for categories or specific names, windmill, million..mispelling millitary, and some people also name modern wind turbines a windmill..just for fun. World searches will be versatile
I guess also a list for popular typos might be of help, to suggest replacement or even trigger further searchs.

@Jan:
sure: screencast video

I really like the smart approach of the search, based on last results, quantity of choosen categories, and whatever, daytime, popular choices, ..
Generally something that needs a lot of testing and adjustments.

If I explicitely search for health, then I explicitly search for health. Sure, there might be a pet shop nearby. Honestly I currently have no idea of an usecase of such extended results without any differentiation.

Relevant area, sure. If I search by category, then around map center.
If different scenarios are necessary, then maybe icons might help to focus search, mapcenter, gps-position (if different), ..

Clicking somewhere else was intuitively to get more map screen space, no bottom point detail, and also by mistake, sometimes i don't hit a POI precisely.

You have choosen small icons to indicate types.
I would also use different spaces and mabe dividers or collapsable areas/categories inside the list. Sure, different opinions, different layouts..
Google search and Google map and some other webservices might be a good source of inspiration for appearance of results and interfaces, often used and strongly optimised.

woah, that's a rough start..

LM4 beta 4.16.0.2 1st flavour tested, try&cry
LM4 beta 4.16.0.3

as polishing is needed and to save myself I will drop a note only at time
- cursor in search input: I have the keyboard, but the 3 basic android control-buttons are missing
- if I search by category, eg. health, also results of other categories are additionally shown on map
- if I input letters the shown results are located somewhere else, not nearby current map cursor, and also no distance is shown in the list.  As I don't see the results in context of a map (location) it is of limited value
- if the results are shown around the map as icons and I click the map for 1-2 seconds the results are gone. Might be by design, don't know. If I reenter search there is a bin icon next to category though nothing is actively shown
- the result list seems to be a mixture (as noted in #1) with missing visible structure. So I am first busy to get the clou, structure or filter the results, then I can profit of them..this should already be given by a proper design & layout

missing city-/town-names:
see below 2.0.19
same with 2.0.13

maybe it's due to priorities, or missing tags (display="always"), or a rare case pointing to sth. further

(just a sidenote reg. appearance if yours is slightly different: generally using Maps>Adv.Features>125% magnify all maps and Maps>Offline>125% Text size)
edit: added tag-description

reg. backup, just an idea:
I am using LM4 AFA and also have any data backed up, and I am not in the situation, but imagine generally one needs to completely uninstall LM4 and then re-install. Probably some folders and their content might get removed.
Question is, does it makes sense to inform during backup that the processed essential backup does not include all data, like additional data maps 1234Mb, hgt 1234Mb, etc. etc.? Just to inform and paint the full picture.
In case of a fresh install and loaded backup them might need to get handled manually, or trigger re-download, and probably require a separate backup.
Or recommend to additionally use 'app data transfer', or whatever might be of help.

Menion, could you add an expert setting to enable long-press on theme-button to directly jump to theme's StyleMenu for quick access, so overriding theme-selection dialog?

A variant of this option (expert setting) could be, normal click jumps to theme's stylemenu - to change settings of active theme (enable routes, trails etc., change style), and long-click to open themes-selection menu - to switch to another theme, which might be less often.

With expert setting enabled the icon might appear in e.g. neon-pink colour

beta 4.15.2.4

1. is initialization during start different? Now loading instead of detailed list, though it was always quite fast

Backup manager
2. content, left to select-button: IMHO text is of no value. Honestly a shortened enumeration missing details instead of a list never makes sense to me. I suggest using a list, maybe in smaller font size if used screen-space is a matter. I suggest to begin with summary like:
Full Backup: NO
Enabled items: 9/10
item1
item2
(item3 not listed as being disabled)
item4
...
...

Just an idea.

3. status & details during processing missing. Any processing >1s should provide details about what's going on.

4. I am with Tapio, wording: "loading" during a saving-action is not the best choice

5. Congrats! (just sharing my impressions)

Most recent OAM Germany map vs. LM4 beta - anyone else?

I downloaded Germany-North 04.04.2023 today, zip, v5, and it's working fine with Elevate and with newer LoMaps-MF-beta-theme and VoluntaryUK-MF-beta-theme.
Haven't checked any map-feature though. Citynames and name-priority are somewhat different between themes.
All these different numbers are irritating, V4 here,V5 there, I suggest to call the new beta-themes simply MF-themes, as not being Locus-specific.

Noch ein Beispiel 3 km weiter westlich im Schlosspark Marquardt (Screenshot 4):

Strecke mit Navigationsanweisungen, diese sind als kleine blaue Punkte sichtbar. Es geht zunächst geradeaus, dann gut 90° nach rechts, gleich danach wieder nach links.

Die erste Anweisung sagt ungenau ,,Halte dich rechts", obwohl ,,Biege rechts ab" richtig wäre.
Anschließend biegt die Strecke links ab. Es wird aber keine Navigationsanweisung erstellt, was blöd ist.

Erstelle ich die Stecke ohne Navigationsanweisungen und navigiere dann, werden anhand der Geometrie wieder richtige und vollständige Anweisungen erstellt:

Die erste Anweisung sagt richtig ,,Biege rechts ab".
Gleich danach erfolgt die nächste Anweisung und sagt korrekt: ,,Biege links ab". (Screenshot 5).

Jetzt sag mir, was besser ist.

Das kenne ich.
Ich habe eine Strecke mit Anweisungen/Abbiegehinweisen erstellen lassen, bin dann die Strecke mit Fahrrad Vollgas und Kopfhörer auf abgefahren und habe mir die Hinweise ansagen lassen.
Manchmal fehlte mir ein Hinweis, hätte mir einen gewünscht, und wenn die Strecke kurzzeitig komplizierter war, mehrere aufeinanderfolgende kurze Abschnitte und Richtungsänderungen, besonders rechts-links/links-rechts-Kombos, wurde als Ersatz 'bitte rechts halten' zb. generiert, was zwar stimmt wenn man sich die Strecke aus der Vogelperspektive anschaut, aber nicht down on earth vor Ort hilft bildete auf jeden Fall die Komplexität der Strecke nicht ab.

War nicht optimal, definitiv nichts für turbo-speed, und hängt vielleicht vom Profil ab, habe es jetzt einige Monate schon nicht mehr genutzt.

I currently use:

xml editing per Notepad++.

a quick and easy wireless-transfer to smartphone can be realised via syncthing.
I use Catfriend1's releases on Android https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android and on Windows https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor for any of my transfers.
After connecting the relevant folders (e.g. share Locus/mapsVector/_themes/XYZ_Theme on syncthing-android and accept on syncthing-windows, then point to your local XYZ_Theme-dev-sync-folder) both get synced. Synchting typically watches for changes, you don't need to interact, you can also set intervalls individually though not needed. Better work with a dedicated folder and have your xml backed up for the intial setup, though conflicts typically gets prompted.

Edit and save xml in Notepad++, the change gets automatically detected and syncing is triggered within 1-5 seconds, or manually trigger by hitting 'rescan' in SyncTrayzor if you need your 1s.
Then simply rechoose your theme in Locus, voila

seems like text-parsing of gpx-import isn't fully working
similar to this behaviour https://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=5065.0
maybe Tapio's result is also due to this?

Recognised this with 4.14.2.4 or .3, but was not able to compare this to past releases as it was with any vector-map and theme.

my ideas, personal preferences:


• LoPoints UI
optimize layout and appearance, intents + contrast / cards-style, eye-symbols (like points and tracks), sorting (allow manual repositioning and maybe some half-smart-approach based on number of usage, maybe switchable and/or combined), categories (e.g. I potentially only need the 5 ski-sport-POI-groups during winter), the whole UI-experience

• expert setting: theme-panel (layers)
available with 1-click at symbol > Map-screen content > theme. Current Map-themes (list, overview) then by using long-press at symbol.

• Backup
like you noted sure, as being basic and essential

• combined search through settings + features
like search triggers both current searches and combines the results, different symbols and maybe collapsible groups

Optimizations. Honestly I am very happy Locus is already super evolved and powerful. Really like the new and upcoming changes towards MapsForge and themes.

maybe we need backup-presets.. just need to drop this joke

(sure, backup 'settings only' should to be closer to 'full' but without \data\database as some configurations are missing)

do you use OAM ? I also had double points because OAM also places the points database in the automatic DL. You get then LoPoi and OAM Poi displayed. OAM Poi but unfortunately you can not hide. It goes only with database delete. But you have to do that again with every update.
Here the user interface would have to be extended to be able to show and hide OAM Poi.

Oh yes, I do.
But each .map.db-combo in its folder.
OAM-Germany_north
.map
.db
LoMap-MF4
.map
.db

I assume 'points around' and eye-symbol are controlling taken db and visibility differently.