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My 1st time actually cycle touring with the compass icon, bright sun, though not latest beta. To be honest, a big backwards step for visibility. Why the change at all? I wish I could completely replace with own simple but highly visible version.

ANYONE NOTICED SEVERE BATTERY DRAIN

@tapio - I always have a Tasker profile with device current (mA) appended to CSV file every 2 minutes. I have not seen any change in average current.

Maybe have a try yourself? The interface within the Locus Map app makes it very easy to do.

Regards search in functions & settings: as mentioned previously, main menu > All features > Search: "backup" - does not show any result?! It's not intuitive in my opinion that "Backup manager" is found from Settings. Backup manager is as much (more) a function, than a "setting".
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How about any search shows all results from both "functions" & "settings" in one list?

@Michal - the 1st images in https://www.locusmap.app/new-locus-map-4-26-dynamic-offline-lomap-rotation-and-other-features-not-only-for-cyclists/ doesn't display?

delete the above

version before the weekend. Let's call it "Beta 4.25.1.7, Release Candidate".

wow - huge release!!
very nice on the touring routing profile speed; default 20km/h was much too fast

Can someone please tell me when I import a route (track) into Locus web planner whether the track point elevations <ele> are maintained? I have just downloaded Sonny DTM France 1asec v3 HGT files (2.4GB!!) in order to improve the slope accuracy of some planned routes.

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<trkpt lat="-42.8609208" lon="147.2951480">
<ele>36.86</ele>
<time>2023-12-31T23:04:44.000Z</time>
</trkpt>

At one section, in LM4 the slope is 7% whereas the web planner is showing stupid 31%.

Extra question: is it possible yet to keep each HGT file within a ZIP file? I know it has been discussed & I did a search but could find no answer. I could test myself, but it's pretty slow. I suspect not possible.

@tapio FYI I am following a bike route near Nancy, north-eastern France.

In LM https://web.locusmap.app/en/?lat=48.642633&lng=6.261931&z=19&map=hikeBike the route is marked V52.

Also V52 with https://brouter.m11n.de/#map=18/48.64237/6.26169/CyclOSM

However in LM Android with your OS Map themes the route is marked "PAN", which means "Paneuropa route".
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The OSM meta data https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/48.644124/6.273000 shows the path as a part of feature "bicycle route" with route# V52 & name "V52 - Veloroute 52 - Laneuveville to Maixe" and has 2 relations with "Paneuropa route".
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The label V52 for the online maps seem a more useful description than "PAN" so I am wondering whether there is anyway to displayed the former rather than the latter. Then online & offline are also more consistent.

cheers, Andrew

It doesn't help directly as the question is for the (online) Web Planner, but using Android LM4 you can choose/ experiment with a 3rd party mapping theme. If you are adventurous you have full control over the color of everything on the map. But the learning curve is huge & outside scope of this topic.

Check app settings > Navigation > LoRouter offline settings ... here are two new options. Alternative routes is a new feature

4.25.1.2 beta - alternate routes or routers? I would think the former?
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In full screen mode there, the title bar "Route Planner" needs to move up 1 "row" so right at the top?
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Alternative routes - I have enabled, I tried with car & touring bike profiles, but don't see an alternative generated. Would these 2 new settings be better located in the Route Planner main menu rather than the Settings > Navigation menu? I would think sometimes you want them on, sometimes off, and that decision is when in the planner.

Sorting track recording profiles by name - thanks!

excellent question; I wish LM did that too
please convert your question to a suggestion @ https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/add so others can vote for the idea

20 years since OSM begun - we have these far sighted people to thank very much - https://blog.systemed.net/post/18.

Only make one tiny change at a time (unless you know what you are doing) then check/ test; make the next tiny change. Repeat. Yes it's very tedious but I know of no other way; always have a backup. I do the editing on Windows as you can see more of the file & have better facilities for bookmarks etc.

I've just created it, sorry not to write this. It will be available in the next Beta version.

New beta... It works! The naming works, but icon does not, or I don't know how. I used "icon":"Z-ico02". The icon name I retrieved via longtap an icon.

@Tapio maybe a little Tasker demo project to share?