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The autopause test during four hours of hiking turned out excellent. No unexpected lines.

Clicking on any Lopoint Locus crashes. Android 12 on the phone and 11 on the tablet.

Hi Menione, the first test "Autapause" on the Samsung A53 (A12). According to the upper bar is reading the activity OK. But there is no control when AutoPause is active. Upon arrival in the building and laying the phone on the table, "drift" was created in the record. See SCR.

"record only when moving" use speed reported by the GNSS unit. Anyway even if not moving, it still only ignores location data but does not pause recording at all. For this, I already have prepared a system using "Google activity recognition", but I was never able to finish it for some public test  . This should allow to detect of changes in movement style so react on pauses or inform about activity & paused recording.

I think the quality of the recording at stop is now the biggest problem of Locus records. The solution should not be dependent on the vote. Other applications with this have no problem with this.

Today all mobiles have an acceleration sensor. This should be used to detect movement. Or not?

you probably find only 0.01% of users use Presets, so far bigger fish to fry; maybe there are analytics behind the scenes to justify development in certain areas

Andrew Why do you think so? I think Locus Presets needs. Without them I can not even imagine using locus.

@Žajdlík Josef - LM4 5M+ downloads, LM3 probably even more, but just a few regular beta users in this forum. I agree with you Presets are a great power-user feature but it would be interesting to see how many out of 10M+ Locus users are aware of & use this feature. I'm just trying to say with limited developer resources there are possibly more important areas to develop that would give more bang-for-your-buck for more users.

In this review of 6 best navigation apps for bicycle touring https://wobblyride.com/2022/03/29/best-navigation-apps-for-bicycle-touring/ sadly IMHO Locus is not mentioned. I have experimented with all other 6 apps (long time ago) and settled on LM as the best. I would suggest every LM user who reads the review, adds a comment to promote LM and provide wider exposure.

All cyclists and tourists I know want a simple application of free Mapy.cz do not want to think about the settings and options that Locus applications offer. I think that the Locus team knows it and does not compete directly with them. Mapy.cz or Google have big teams of people.
I agree with Menion that the presets will have to be modified, but it takes more discussion on this topic.

you probably find only 0.01% of users use Presets, so far bigger fish to fry; maybe there are analytics behind the scenes to justify development in certain areas

Andrew Why do you think so? I think Locus Presets needs. Without them I can not even imagine using locus.

I also like the current situation. Perhaps it would be enough to add alerts for starting users when creating a new preset: "The current settings will change if you make changes to the preset settings settings. If you want to keep the settings, save it as a separate preset"

Co jednoduchý přepínač na bod/trasa? Viz scr.

It's the same for me. They can't change in the preset at all, Locus doesn't remember the change.

The simple option to add a point to Lomap (or to OSM database) will also be important. Many important things are completely missing here. See SCR.

It worked for me too, but when I selected one Dashboard from the menu, the settings of all Presets changed to this dashboard. And it can't be changed anymore. Even the recovery from the backup did not help.

In the latest Beta version, switching the Dashboard using presets does not work. I selected the Dashboard manually and in all Presets the preset has changed to this type. Now dashboards in presets cannot be set.

It's alright. But if I understand it correctly, there is part of the data in the Lopoints of OSM and part of the Wiki. Therefore, for each item I would like a button with a direct link to change directly in the database OSM or in Wiki. It's definitely very complicated, but if it succeeded, it would be great. I am afraid that an ordinary user will not want to install other editing applications, so there will be not many lopoint repairs.

The OSM GO app is great, thanks.
But it's not a simple solution for ordinary users. If the database of points is to be useful, it must be easily edited. For example: opening hours, changing the name of the shop, etc. This is a big and difficult task for the Locus team.
Some data are bad and others are completely missing even though they are in OSM data. As an example, I mention the "orchestra" in the chateau park. It is a big historic building, but it is not in points.