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and access via website? this is most likely method for other friends/ family wanting to track my position rather than using Locus app sorry

@Andrew Heard
Well when you try to search
Tasmania > Moonah > Effingham St - are you able to search Effingham Street, please?

@voldapet - Moonah is not displayed in the offline search list of cities for Tasmania. Moonah is just a suburb of Hobart. I checked my "theory" of some more streets without street numbers, but they were correctly listed, so I still can't explain difference between Charles & Effingham streets. I have however found many other examples of where a long tap label shows a "city" or "street" but the offline search fails.

Here is perhaps a simpler example. Long tap label shows city=Longley however Longley not listed as city in Tasmania. Longley is quite small town. Huon Road is the pink road. Huon Road as OSM way: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/131480711.

@voldapet I think the issue is more general. It is not a matter of which city (Hobart or Moonah) I type. It seems to me (from popup labels) that roads/ streets that have no street numbers are not displayed in list of offline search results. Using my example - Charles St has street numbers (according to long taps) and is displayed in list of results, Effingham St doesn't have street numbers (according to long taps) and is not displayed in list of results,

A few quick tests for Slovenia appear to be working.

Some initial tests for streets in Oceania> Australia> Tasmania are not working although search to just "city" level seems OK. Streets are not being displayed in the search suggestions list even though I can long tap on the street and a label displays the correct address. One good & one bad example below...

1st good street search shows correct offline address after long tap AND address search Oceania> Australia> Tasmania> Hobart> Charles also lists this street (note Moonah is suburb of city of Hobart).


2nd bad street search (I choose a random street right next to "good" Charles Street) shows correct offline address after long tap BUT address search Oceania> Australia> Tasmania> Hobart> Effington (or eff) does not list any street. I note that label for Charles Street has street numbers, but label for Effington Street does not have street numbers. Could this be difference in failed search?


Also what does the asterisk (*) at start of address label indicate?

OK thanks Michael. Makes more sense now.

Now the grid KMLs for the "continents" are completed - see attachments (limit is 4, hence a second post to follow) ...

@michaelbechtold - I am unclear of trade-off between your special KML and ordinary HGT files? Is purpose just to drastically reduce the number of files? Is there speed advantage? Where should KML file be placed and/or Locus configured to use? I tried replacing all HGT files with single KML file but then hill shading no longer worked. Sorry for all the questions but thanks for any help.

3.16.0.3 - coloring of tracks in gradient mode now looks for better thanks

Ah,... and also missing webclient is a brake pad on this live tracking vehicle.

I can't do much testing without the webclient either. My user-case isn't multiple Locus user friends, it's one Locus user being viewed by multiple webclient users (friends/ family). BTW those friends/ family won't be concerned if my position isn't updated every 5 minutes when I am cycle touring in another country. Even position once a day is more than enough when zoomed out.

<<add: (PRO) auto-start of track recording now has cancelable counter at start of app>>

Wow - thank you, great addition. I note again previously discussed and improved - http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/if-there-are-no-recorded-points-is-it-necessary-to-ask-to-save-the-stop-the-process]) that if there are no recorded track points, at Locus exit there is again unnecessary message box - ""Do you really want to EXIT?". Suggestion - no need to confirm exit while track recording IF no recorded track points.

Hi, I see colouring mode has changed and not displayed as expected.
I observe on altitude change mode (other modes not examined)

I have same experience as Bucky Kid. For track line style Mode = "Change of elevation" my steep test track is now mostly green, and therefore quite unusable. My test track is very steep for tour cycling and has gradients above 8%.

track in 3.15 (useful coloring):


track in 3.16 (mostly green, mostly wrong):

• I then enabled long tap from Settings > Map - Control & Panels > Enable address display, and then long tap each road - label popup = Unknown address?

Since the post above I made visible "Enable address display" in Quick settings, and now after long tap I get correct address in popup label instead of "Unknown address", weird. I then tried to reproduce "Unknown address" but now can't.

You first need to search for the city.

@wvb - thanks - how stupid of me to ignore the city prompt

next observation - "rue saint-sebastien" is only found IF the hyphen character is typed AND space characters are removed, maybe these special characters can be ignored?

@Andrew - would you please give exactly the term you write into "Street" field? I've tried to write "Rue Saint-Sebas" and Locus whispers correct values. Maybe the screenshot would be fine

Thanks @voldapet but I did specify exact street field in my previous post. I also tried your "Rue Saint-Sebas" but no results, see below. Menion suggests known issue.

So exciting - lots of people have been waiting a long time for this feature. Some initial comments:-

• "In most of cases: /Locus/vectorMaps/" - on my phone at at least it is mapsVector
• I downloaded DB for France as test because I have France map although I live in Australia
  when I type with keyboard auto suggest city Paris<space> the only result is "Paris Gagne", when I remove the trailing space (which I didn't type) I get more results including the capital Paris. So I suggest removing leading/ trailing whitespace characters before searching.
• when I type Paris > 42 rue Saint-Sebastien (a hotel I stay at), there are no results, or for just rue Saint-Sebastien, but I can see the road name on the map - coord N48'51.695 E02'22.261
• this is OSM https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/63640415 - is it possible the accent above the E character is missing? I tried adding a hyphen between words (I hope this isn't necessary
• so I try searching for a close-by road Rue Oberkampf which has no special characters - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4039537 but still no results
• I then enabled long tap from Settings > Map - Control & Panels > Enable address display, and then long tap each road - label popup = Unknown address?
• so I give up until helpful suggestions

A) The text in top/right corner is too small/ hard to read - it says Stop when I zoom in.
B) I tried to type "AH" into nickname field but got error message that text was too short - but isn't that the idea of a nickname?