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Can anyone tell me why when I use locus to navigate me on a pre planned route and I look at the itinerary, it doesn't know the street names? It only says unknown street. One last thing how come when I view any of the maps directly I can zoom in and they look clear but if I download those maps to my device then when I zoom in close they are very blurry.

PS: there is nothing wrong with using e.g. Here for car routing. Although Locus can do the job as described.

But once you get to hiking or biking and into wilderness, apps like Google Maps, Here and alike are simply doomed.

Ok so let me ask.....What if I was to use Locus Pro for my original intent which was to upload GPX routes, navigate and record them and then export to Strava? I really don't need to use Locus to navigate offline if I have an app like Here alongside it. My question would be.....Supposing I give up on using Locus for offline navigation, Could it still do simple tasks like route me back to start (if I get lost) and record an unplanned trip that doesn't use a pre planned route? In Lamens terms could Locus still be a useful gps tracking/recording device to navigate through the gravel roads and wilderness without having brouter or any of the other stuff working (like mine currently is) or would a person like me be better (and safer) to go with an app like Osmand? If it can do everything an app like Backwoods navigator, Osmand, and some others can do right out of the box without any techy tweaking than I will just keep Locus cause I love the interface.  Thanks for all your guys help!!!!

Ok how about this? I went to maps and selected to download Google offline maps. I selected the entire US and started downloading. How come in settings-navigation-navigation data source it doesn't give me the option to use these or lomaps in gthe offline mode? It lists Mapquest, Yours, and OSRM as online choices and Brouter (which isn't even installed anymore) as the only offline choice.  Why are the Google maps I just downloaded not an option or even the Lomaps?

OK, found the address in Locus search (by Google). Points about 30 yards into a BLOCK, not to a location on the street.
Navigating from Greenfield to the STREET in front of the 209 Eat M St house via BRouter gives you a route of about 65 miles.
Could you try, too ?

Also: http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#18/40.7381/-95.0354&num=4&mt0=mapnik&mt1=google-map&mt2=here-map&mt3=google-hybrid

shows you the different information of different map sources (different renditions of the same source, e.g. OSM, does not make a difference re. routing, but only delivers different visual.

Finally: did you try this app ? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mjk.locusmaptweak&hl=de

I am really sorry Michael. I am simply a plug n play type of person. I simply need an app that I can download maps online for use offline later and use them later. I cannot understand all this stuff I am being shown. And I am not sure what is meant by Greenfield? And I just installed locus tweaks but have no idea what it is or what to do with it. I clicked on the shortcut and it opened locus maps. I tried to navigate to again and it was no different than before.

Do you have some full addresses so reproduction of the problem can be tried ?

Yes try for example 209 east main st, Clarinda Iowa 51632. That is a valid address for a long standing business. I picked it out of the phone book at random. I can find east main clarinda but not the house #. Plus the problem still persists that it won't navigate to anything. I just get a split second view of "route cannot be computed" before it switches back to the screen with the coordinates.

I am sorry I keep posting about this but it won't work!! What am I doing wrong? I downloaded Lomaps of 3 states I navigate in regularly (Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri). I go to search address and the option for offline (under the hamburger button) is selected as well as the current state I am trying to navigate in. I start by entering the city name. The offline map can locate the city. Then I enter the street. As long as I only enter the street and NOT ANY HOUSE ADDRESS  it will find it. If I try to enter a specific address it says it cannot find any results. For example "600 west main St" finds nothing BUT "West Main" will be located. Then when I hit start it flashes to the map and I get an error "Route cannot be computed, Please check navigation source" and it flashes right back to the start screen. This happens in a half second time. I have tried the old way (Brouter and downloading a thousand tiles all over the USA lol) and had Brouter selected in settings as navigation source and it won't work either. Using Lomaps I can see the destination location on the map if I cancel out but I just cannot navigate.

Last Thursday, while on the road for work, Google Maps crashed and would not connect to server. I was in the boondocks and my customer would not answer the phone so I had no idea where I was going. I did a quick search for "Google Maps alternatives" and I found a competitors app called "Here maps". I downloaded it and then selected the USA and downloaded maps on 4g data for offline use. I used Here Maps that day and it worked well. When I got home that night I downloaded Here maps on my old Galaxy S5 (which is deactivated and has no data) and Friday I experimented and used Here Maps (on that same deactivated S5) all day long to navigate me to 7 different houses with NO DATA. It worked every bit as well as Google maps. So much so that I may just start using it daily instead of Google Maps. All that was needed to set up Here Maps was:

1, download the app and
2, download the region you want to use offline

That was it!! After this (which took 5 minutes). It worked extremely well and was super simple to get going. BUT Here maps cannot record or import/export gpx files like Locus Pro can so it cannot be a replacement. Why can't Locus be so simple to use? I am getting so extremely frustrated that I am thinking of switching to OSMAND which everyone claims will do all that Locus can but I already have so much time invested in Locus that I hate to have to learn another app. I like Locus interface but I need help getting this simple feature of offline navigation fixed. PLEASE HELP!!

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For offline address seach are two prerequisites
- you have downloaded Lo maps from store after beginning (10. ?) of may 2016
- at end of map download you have confirmed "download additional data for offline address search"

please check first if these data is availabele on your device
menu/search/hamburger button top right/search address (Offline)

if "search address (Offline)" is available select in next window e.g. Missouri and search for an address inside Missouri

Good luck

Yea just checked and that is all as it should be. I tried searching offline as well as on wifi and the info just is not there. I assumed once I downloaded these maps all this info would be in the app but I guess not.

@Michael: I'm not sure how Locus tweaks will help with this problem.
There are a number of ways of doing an address search in Locus. You can search for an address when you initiate navigation. This can be either offline (with LoMaps) or online (using Google, Bing, or Mapquest). Switch between offline and online search by tapping the top right corner of the title bar. You can also do a straight search and use other providers, including Geonames (which can be downloaded to enable an offline search).

I don't think I am techy enough to follow what you guys are even talking about. I have an old smartphone with no data and use it for a gps. I am just playing around trying to use locus pro to navigate offline. I use it for courses that i import ahead of time for my bike rides. I thought it might be cool to be able to use it to navigate me to my customers houses the same way I use Google maps on my new phone. But after downloading 3 free Lo maps from the Locus store(Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas) I cannot seem to to find any addresses. It just says no results found. It can find the towns but no streets within those towns will produce any results. I cannot even search up my house to navigate to home if I wanted to lol. I like Locus Pro for what I originally got it for (Importing gpx courses into the app for bike course navigation) but other than that I am not finding it very user friendly at all.

Thanks for the info. I have another question. I downloaded brouter and downloaded all the maps in the United States last night. Then I went into Locus Pro and used brouter for the offline navigation source. But I still can't find a simple address to navigate to. I had to use Google Maps to go there. Why is that? Did I do something wrong? I guess I was under the impression that when you did this Locus Pro would have street maps and info in its system similar to Google Maps.

What map do I need, so that when I am navigating a course I created in rural Iowa, Locus pro can tell me what road I am turning on next instead of just saying unknown road? Sometimes I like to view the turns ahead of time and keep them in my memory bank but when all it says is unknown road I obviously have no idea which road that will be.

I just went and looked at my route and you're right there is a picture attached to that point in the route. That's pretty cool. I guess I was thinking that the photos would show up in another screen similar to how Strava does it.

If I try to add a picture to my ride during recording it opens up my camera app.  I snap a picture and name and save it but they are no where to be found after recording is done and saved.  Are the pictures supposed to show up?  Would I be better off just adding pics manually after I share to Strava? I thought it would be cool to add them as I took them.

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I just looked in both and sure enough strict route following was unchecked in both.  I checked it now.  I can't wait to go try it out.

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For the record. .... that fixed it.  Thanks!

I did use navigation instead of guidance.  I was wondering what the difference was between the 2. That must be it lol. So your saying choosing navigation calculates the shortest possible route to the end point while guidance will follow the pre planned route?

Also is the recalculate feature part of the problem do you think or would you guess the whole problem lies with the fact that I chose navigation?

I just looked and in order to use point priority I have to buy the pro version.  I will gladly pay for that IF I know that is the problem not having point priority checked.  I don't want to buy and then find out the app still does not work right.  As of now for auto recalculate it is off.