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#1
Quote from: freischneider on March 20, 2024, 19:02:40The preview larger....yes and no. Then I see less of the other information
But think about it, do you tap a picture to see it? Or to read the address and what else is there... I am convinced primary use case is to see the picture. And its dedicated view is not fun. You cannot directly go to another one.
Yes I'm aware about rotation, pictures aspect ratio etc. It's solvable.
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#2
Information / Re: [TRANSLATION]
February 05, 2024, 08:08:21
I've answered to you over email, so check your mailbox.
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#3
Information / Re: [TRANSLATION]
February 02, 2024, 11:42:21
Hi lor74cas,

there were some changes on the Crowdin side, but even our main account requires only code from the email. There isn't any alternative option except auth-app? I would expect some "Use another method" button, where your email should be used as an authenticator.
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#4
Other features / Re: Online search
January 31, 2024, 21:19:06
I like the online search more and more. Especially for LoPois. I search for the category "Parking lot" or "Water point" etc. They are all displayed and highlighted on the map. If I zoom out further, they are updated immediately.
Unfortunately, this is missing when you go to search offline locations (LoPois). Then only a list of POIs is displayed.
Please make the offline area the same as the online area.

Another idea. If there is an online connection, always search online. As soon as there is no longer a connection, automatically switch the search to offline. Now I always have to go to the menu in the search and change it. 
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#5
Hi Menion,

- What elevation data exactaly are you using for your LoRouter online? And are these the same files which LM4 useres are downloading for using LoRouter offline?

- A very important advantage of Locus against its competitors has always been its offline skills. Very important when hiking/cycling where no Internet is available or being abroud where Internet is too expensive.

I personally use BRouter in LM3 offline all the time. It delivered the best elevation sums of all apps until about half year ago. Since then LM3 (and maybe also LM4 using Brouter, Graphhopper) changed something to the worse (see linked thread above) and we do not get good elevation sums anymore although we have installed the best elevation files available in Locus "SRTM"-folder (Sonny 1" DTMs).

So our request: please change this behaviour to how it worked in the past, namly on-the-fly use of precise elevation files within "SRTM"-folder to calculate elevation stats when using other route planers (e.g. BRouter) than LoRouter.
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#6
Locus Map / Re: [APP] - version 4.19.+ ( 9/2023 )
October 15, 2023, 09:23:17
The contour lines mentioned in the news are embedded into the .map files. And display (or not) is controlled by the theme.
The hgt files are optional and allow the dynamic elevation Feature.
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#7
Locus Map / Re: [APP] - version 4.18.+ ( 8/2023 )
September 27, 2023, 11:53:07
Hi to all,

version 4.19.0 published: https://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=8631.0

"Warnings" are currently in the online version, special MTB custom parameter as well. The task on next month is to get all this to offline LoRouter + finalize few more router customizations. Hope we will get some feedback from the usage ;).

Thanks again for the help with new version, appreciate it!
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#8
Nono, I did not describe it perfectly.

The app always allows to continue in the previous recording, even after a day or more.

What happens if you reboot the device within 10 minutes is that recording should continue automatically without the need to start it manually in the app. Otherwise, you have to open the app, the side recording panel should open automatically and you have to press the "Start" button. That`s all. No data should be lost in any case!
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#9
Other features / Re: Online search
August 12, 2023, 07:03:10
Quote from: Jan Čapek on August 10, 2023, 18:07:26...
Until then, we didn't removed old offline address and POI searches. They are still there in its current old-school form. With those the app for sure would not be returning results from countries of which it hasn't downloaded map.

As a Computer Scientist and IT professional since more than 40 years I appreciate that your roadmap is havy lifting. But by the same token I can confirm that you and your search team completely fail re. rule #1: "Do not screw your customers!"
You are "proud" to not have removed offline POI and address search? Well, removing the last straw would have been complete suicide.
Keeping Google based search in its place as it worked for 10 years, alongside your new search, would have been professional. You would get feedback from the geeks who dare the new stuff, while offering propoer search results for all others, while you do your homework for step #2 and #3.
And if there should be pride and emotions in the way of doing that: both do not pay your bills. Be smart instead.
Cheers
Michael (from Radium Hot Springs)
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#10
Locus Map / Re: [APP] - version 4.18.+ ( 8/2023 )
August 11, 2023, 18:45:39
Buddy tracking is super unreliable btw, if anybody still cares about that function. It stops working at least least five times per day and we have to manually turn it off and on to see our points again.

It always happens when network reception is bad for a while. Locus seems to mess up internally and never gets back on track.

Btw... if you have code in there like

if phone.isOnline()
  do_stuff();
else
  do_other_stuff();

that might be the main problem. Once you leave your LTE development couch and travel through the real world, your phone will quite often only THINK it's online... like in zero bars 4G or even Edge. Transmitting a single byte might take ages though or come back with a failure after some longish timeout. Quite likely Locus hickups on that... maybe if the network error timeout is longer than the tracking interval? Just guessing.

And nope... we're not in rural India... we're in the mountains of southern France right in central Europe. Buddy tracking still fails plenty.

There are obviously at least a dozen other things wrong with buddy support in general. But unless the likely answer is different from "not a priority" (as for the last five(?) years), I won't bother repeating myself over and over again. Ask if you want two more pages of neccessary fixes... or just go cycling with a buddy, then you might finally notice yourself and do something about it :-)
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#11
Other features / Re: Online search
August 10, 2023, 07:54:48
Maybe zoom level as an indicator of users scope wish? Zoom level low: User likely wants to find "New York City" in the US. ZL high: wants to find the local "NYC brothel".
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#12
Very interesting! I came across this discussion by chance only a week ago.

I myself had noticed only a few weeks ago that Locus suddenly caused very high battery consumption, always when navigation and/or track recording was running. On day trips, a power bank had to be connected after only 3-4 hours.

Now we were hiking in the Liberec area (Czech Republic) for about 2 weeks. Very beautiful area by the way! Every day with track navigation along planned routes and track recording. Strangely enough, there were days when the battery lasted through the day without any problems, but on other days it was already empty after a few hours.

After reading this discussion I remembered that in March I had downloaded the 1" files of the elevation data (24.7 MB each) for the whole of Germany from Sonny, which coincides with the beginning of the high battery consumption.

These were not available for the Czech Republic, where I still have the small 3" files (2.7 MB). 

Now the region west of Liberec is still covered by the Sonny file N50E14.hgt, while those from the city and further east are covered by the 3" file N50E15.hgt. And indeed, it was the tours in the west (Ještěd Mountains, etc.) where the battery consumption was extremely high. In the eastern Jizera Mountains, the battery lasted the whole day.

I would never have thought that this could be the cause without these posts on the forum. I then replaced all the 1" files with the small 3" files and the battery consumption was normal again. Even with another hike in the N50E14 range. 😊


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#13
Other features / Re: Online search
May 25, 2023, 21:35:31
When I search for water, a list of POIs is displayed at the bottom. Only the name is present in the list. It would be helpful if behind the name, the distance to the current map center is displayed. Possibly a direction arrow. At the moment I have to click on each result to get this information.
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#14
I also would appreciate the possibility to hide hiking and biking routes, because I use the web planner to create routes for motor bike travels and indeed, it is easy to confuse the hiking and cycling routes on the map with the planned route or with imported tracks. Therefore I often choose the map "LoMaps Ski for winter sports", because in this map the hiking and biking routes are hidden. Only then, when planning a motorbike trip, the winter landscape is a bit strange...
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#15
Quote from: lor74cas on April 27, 2023, 15:32:424 months and 3 versions ago I reported this issue with the planners
https://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?msg=69978
still not solved

Military road
access = no
but ...
foot = permissive
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/220542005

:'(


I "relaxed" the policy towards permissive access in hike and bike routing profiles. Routing is already changed on web, the app will soon follow.
https://link.locusmap.app/r/nsuqvf
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