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This is a bit non Locus related, but I'm going to ask here anyway.

I have some python scripts which parse the GPX tracklogs from Locus with minidom.parse(...). Sinds the beginning of November, the parse gives an error. When I look at the file, the error seems to be in this line: <topografix:color>c0c0c0</topografix:color> It gives a "prefix undefined". If I hand-remove this line, I can parse the GPX file without problems.

Is this error on the python side, or is there some definition missing from the GPX file header or something?

(If python has a problem, maybe other scripts have a problem too.)

Apologies if this has nothing to do with Locus.

-peter

I'm not sure, but has the treatment of GPS on/off changed again?

When I finish recording a track, click on save, I get the "GPS off" message, and I have to go to the little button with the satellite dish, and press "on" again. It also seems to switch off the GPS when I put Locus in the background. Did it do that  before? I have a feeling I could put it in the background without switching the GPS off, before.

-peter

ps: oops, this has been posted before in //http://forum.asamm.cz/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1258

It happened a few days ago, with the last market Pro version.

I was recording a track on the same road I had been before that trip, and I noticed that the purple track of the track being recorded was drawn under the blue track from earlier that day. That way you don't see your current track, so I would like the purple track to be drawn on top of the blue one.

-peter

Interesting graphs on OSM tile usage on //http://www.openstreetmap.org/diary today.

-peter

I read a discussion on Dutch GPS forum where someone tested different SD cards in their GPS, and got different battery times with different brand and sizes of cards (all other things being equal). So maybe some cards take more current...

-peter

Great, thanks!

-peter

OR has advantage, IMHO , that you get a better track, like in Skaters example. If you put seven seconds/250m, I would also prefer which comes first: if going slowly, every seven seconds, if really fast, maybe more points than 7 seconds, otherwise they would be very far apart.

I guess it should be user setting ;-)

-peter

ps: you can already set "only log when moving" in a setting, that takes care of the points when standing still.

It seems that not all of the map is drawn when I switch the "rotate map" option on. See attached screenshot. (The area is covered by the map, I checked that).

-peter

I think supermaz has a point as well. Imagine you have an activity with variable speed, and you set 5 meter/5 seconds. If going slowly, you probably get one point per 5 seconds, so far so good. But when speed is increasing, the 5 meters will be covered in less than 5 seconds, so you want a point each time that happens too, to keep the smoothness/accuracy of the track.

Actually, even better would be an algorithm which sees that you are changing direction, and than store more points. When going in the same direction, less points can be stored. But that takes maybe to much CPU power.

-peter

I was thinking about another kind of "sharing" - like a periodic push of the GPS position to a website. So to allow "live tracking" for example.

Or would something like that better be done in a Locus Add-On?

EDIT: hm, the websites who do this have their own apps anyway

-peter

Peter, it can be done easily. Open the information window for the point . Then just click + button.  I dont know if it's a recent feature, but anyway it works nice.

Yes, you are right! I didn't look far enough!

-peter

I have a related wish also - converting a trackpoint to a POI. So I can mark stuff afterwards in the track.

-peter

I was also thinking about the distance-between-points-on-a-track, also when you record a track when you are travelling. For me it would be nice to select two points on the track, and get some statistics like distance between them, time taken, et cetera.

-peter

Makes more sense to have it only when rotating, that's when you want to see "more ahead",

-peter