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I never use guidance and therefore have hardly any experience with it.

But there is a difference:

If I click on a point and immediately select "guide on", a straight guidance line (small blue triangles) appears. Guidance leads much to the destination without taking geographical conditions into account.

If I click on a point and select "Navigate to", the route planner opens and calculates a route. Then I click on the navigation icon again and select "Guidance".
Now a thin red line with numerous turn-by-turn directions (small blue dots) appears on the route. Presumably the route guidance is then close to the calculated route.

I'll have to try it out, as I said, I never actually use guidance.

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@Tapio: This is okay for me.
Klick a point.
"Plan route to" opens route planner and you must choose start.
"Navigate to" opens route planner, your location is your actual position. You can modify the route or not.

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This is intentional and is the new concept. The navigation allows you to customise the calculated route as required.

If the route suits you, click the navigation icon at the top of the map and off you go.

See Menion's Post here:
"... there is a completely new system of handling shaping/via points in the route planner that should also fully replace the old "Navigate to" screen."

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Ok, then I'll repeat myself:
I don't see any need for changes here.

Ok, you should have added that.
I hardly ever use it, so I don't care. But it might be more useful there than with (photo) points.

When tapping an image, the primary interest is to view the image. I think if it initially came up with a bigger preview this would already be good enough for previewing. The tiny preview not so much What do you think? I suggest full width stretch (and cut top/bottom to keep initial panel size predictable). IMO this would make picture viewing a much better experience! It's currently a bit lacking and clunky.

Hm, for me the image (or the images, if there are several) in the point menu is large enough. I still want to be able to read the information about the point, also because I often add a description. And when I click on the image in the menu, it is displayed screen-wide. Exactly as you have drawn it.

Or do you mean the image as an icon on the map? When I click on it, the info menu for the point appears, which is completely correct for me.

I don't see any need for changes here.

Just curious - what happens if I tap the cross X? Should the startup Initializing screen have this X?

In rare cases, it may be useful to cancel the start process, e.g. if you have started Locus by mistake. However, I have never used this - especially as Locus usually starts very quickly. Perhaps the X is a relic from earlier times, when the starting process took considerably longer.   

Thanks a lot for the release, Menion. According to my initial tests, it looks good! No more problems with the red circles. Addresses are updated in the route planner when dragging and adding points. No more nonsensical track time values when recalculating and "overwriting" a route. Perfect.

Only the German translation of "collapse/expand" is not ideal. Perhaps "einklappen/ausklappen" or "zusammenfassen/erweitern" would be better. SCHLIESSEN is more like "close".

I can confirm the error reported by freischneider, it still occurs.

@Menion: Great that some of my mentioned problems could be fixed! 

PS:
the name "select stop" is still an old name. Now "select via Point after" ?

You mean the entry in the list? There again "select via Point after" would be nonsensical. Perhaps "select location" or "select position" would be better.

For the moment it's not possible. You have to copy the photo folders.

I believe this will be made possible in the future. But no idea when.

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@Graf Geo
Problematic red warning circles > firstly, thanks for sharing the track, it helped. I've made some changes to prevent this issue. Anyway, I'm curious if you did anything special when you planned this track. Because it has on almost every segment (between two shaping points) duplicate points at the start and at the end, that caused this issue. Can't imagine how this happened. You wrote you've used an online Route planner right?

No, route was planned in the app's route planner with LoRouter offline. But I see these duplicated start/end points when I zoom in to the red circle. I created a simple test route with a few shaping points. See screenshot. In the shared track it's shaping point 5:

https://link.locusmap.app/t/z5sqv3

I did nothing special with this route. I only set 6 clicks = shaping points and saved. Then re-open it in route planner red circle appears on point no. 5.

And then I would like to take another look at the nonsensical times given for the estimated track time in the route planner. I'm sorry if I'm being annoying.

I'm planning a route. The routing engine is LoRouter. The route time is displayed (halfway) reasonably, in flat regions approx. 5 km/h is assumed.
So for a 10 km route approx. 2:00:00 hs. I save the route.
See screenshot 1.

Then I open the route again and recalculate it with the route planner. After saving (overwriting), a nonsensical 5:57:26 is now displayed.

I then recalculate the route in the route planner for the 3rd time. At first, the sensible value is displayed again (1:59:09). After saving, an even more absurd value is now displayed (13:54:00). Screenshot 2.

I can repeat this as often as I like, each time the value increases drastically after saving.

It doesn't matter whether I create/calculate the route with or without navigation instructions, these fantasy values are always generated.

So the problem seems to be with saving and not with calculating.

By the way: Graphhopper does not generate a route time. The field remains empty (screenshot 3). That seems to make more sense to me. Better no value than a nonsensical value.

Incomprehensible display of entries in route list. I create a route with the route planner. All shaping points show the correct address of the location. Great, I like that! (Screenshot 1)

But when I modify the route, it gets weird:

I drag a shaping point to a different position. It keeps the address of the original position. (I would expect the address to be updated.)

I add a via-point (add via-point after) and select "screen centre" under "select location". The via point appears in the list with the coordinate and not the address. This remains the same when I toggle it to a shaping point.

I then drag a small red dot between two shaping points, which creates a new shaping point. This is only named "shaping point" in the list.

By editing the route, I get a funny mixed list with shaping points with the correct address, shaping points with the wrong address, shaping/via points with coordinates and shaping points called "shaping point". This is confusing.
(Screenshot 2)

BTW: "collapsed" leaves via points always visible, only shaping points are hidden. That makes sense. 👍
(Screenshot 3)

@T-mo:
Can't confirm first issue (hitting the 3-dot-menu moves all controls up). On my device the size of the window remains the same.

Second issue: confirmed, same behavior on my device.

Thanks a lot for last beta version 4.21.1.5
Lot of improvements!

"Navigate to" menue:

"collapse" position now is better, maybe not optimal but hard to find a perfect place.

Still funny values in ETA after recalculating a planned route. This happens always. I fear this never will be fixed.

I'll keep on testing.