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4.20.1.1: confirmed screen width fix for 7" displays - thanks

I note from https://www.locusmap.app/locus-map-4-20-and-other-pre-christmas-news/ about the opening "animation". I've never seen this on an actual device (3). Does the device need to be younger than certain age/ OS version before the animation occurs?

well spotted; confirmed

Certainly for the main categories of hiking, cycling, MTB, their associated color is a good reminder of the color to look out for on the map instead of needing the legend. Unlike @tapios icons, I don't find the other ones visually as useful.

settings > track recording > <profile> > Save & display: off - I am still seeing 2 behaviors - 1) mostly the track details screen is displayed 2) sometimes the screen is not displayed. I can get used to one or the other but still seems like a timing issue.

Does this weird layout happen on your Samsung Tab A7 in portrait orientation?

@menion - yes, that screen capture is from the tablet in portrait orientation. It has only happened recently.

@menion - request for new Preset setting: settings > Maps > Offline maps > Text size. For some Presets I'd leave the size @ 100%, but for others it would be nice to make larger, say 175%.

Those icons are displayed correctly in my Windows text editor (Sublime Text) and even good ol' Notepad! You could just do a copy/paste between XML files. Must be unicode characters, so need to determine the alt code, or as @tapio says...

I will look at it. What I instantly see is, Karl draws two lines, left and right from roads

@Tapio - no, it's more complex for this bridge. Those are two completely separate/ individually mapped cycleways/ footpaths on each side of the bridge. Yes OSM has the provision/ shortcut for showing footpaths alongside a road, but this bridge is not mapped in OSM like that.

the URL I used in a previous post wasn't very helpful, try
north side https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1136907812
south side https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/177421221

What do you think about the coloring of residential area town masses?

clever idea

All good Karl. Let me know when available to give it a try. Was your choice of Newtown (Wales?) to match my New Town (Tasmania)? nice ;-)

@tapio - in comparing your & Karl Chicks (for example) latest themes, I notice an issue with yours with our local very long city bridge around https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/-42.86549/147.33794, in which the cycle-and-foot-path on both sides of the bridge are not correctly rendered with your theme on the south side. It is correct on the north side - continuous blue. I can't see from the OSM editor why your theme stops the correct blue render and changes to a hollow render below:
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Karls (with cycle emphasis on):
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4.20.1 - still an only quite recent issue on tablet where the full-screen panels are now a few pixels larger on all sides than the screen size. Example below (in preset settings), but random check of others suggests it happens to all full-screen windows
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Please check the main OS Map theme sticky post for more details.

@karlchick - excellent. BTW @tapio has a nice feature - including the theme download link in his profile signature.

release notes.txt although dated 30/11/2023, only contains latest notes for v20210103?

The theme of my local suburban residential roads doesn't appear correct to me, or (more likely) at least has changed from the previous version. According to OS Map Day Legend.pdf, in my screen capture example below is Feature:Residential Name:Clare St Surface:Paved "Other Road" https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=17/-42.86223/147.30436 (emphasise road surface left:off right:on)
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whereas a very similar road close by has been tagged as Surface:Asphalt, and the rendering doesn't have extra dashed gray overlay.
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Comparing to the previous version (approx. 25-10-2021) didn't emphasize sealed roads, so technically I guess the new version is better, just not as readable compared to other themes, with the emphasis obscuring the road names. ~rant

Sometimes with latest beta versions my tablet displays a message "Locus Map has stopped" in the middle of the screen. It doesn't appear to be a regular Android message, or even regular Locus message. But I do not explicitly have LM4 running at the time the message is displayed!
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It appears related to 1) when tablet is started 2) when WiFi is turned on, but why is Locus running at all (in the background) during these times??

Plan visible after closing planner > grrr, so another try, even more aggressive plan removal in the next version.

@menion - fixed

Aspect colored by slope > I've had this prepared, but wasn't satisfied with the colors ... so later.

exciting - I think this new method has great potential

Dashboard resizing bug: Expert setting > dashboard cell vertical positions are not adjusted when Fullscreen Mode is changed, so any cells near the top are hidden under the Android top notification panel, until LM is restarted.

Suggestion: main menu > About app > App info > VERSION: show all 4 version digits if non-zero, currently shows 4.20.0 instead of 4.20.0.1

thanks @tapio - all good now although version comment still 1.3.3 in the XML - was that intended?You cannot view this attachment.

menion, what is the supposed advantage of Google Services here?

tapio - the download page still only has 1.3.3?