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Have you tried OpenAndroMaps with the Elements (not Elevate) theme?

Elements is designed for sparsely-populated areas, and shows elements as soon as their data appears in the file, rather than keeping them selectively hidden until a higher zoom level.

https://www.openandromaps.org/en/legend/elevate-mountain-hike-theme

OAM are very similar to LoMaps, but - ironically - they render better in Locus than Locus' own maps.  That's because OAM and the Locus app both support MapsForge V4, but LoMaps are still stuck at V3.

Unhelpful track stats - I don't have a heart rate or cadence sensor. Display N/A (Not Available) or better, don't display if N/A or even better, allow configuration.

PS: a sustainable support of the Locus team is easily manageable: they now offer LM4 via subscription.
https://www.locusmap.app/premium
I have both, LM Pro and LM4 installed and they share the maps (LoMaps plus OAM) as well as the track/points DB.
PPS: and the hiding works - "INTERNAL THEMES" - "Hike&Bike" - "Hiking Trails" - nice place near Mt. Rainier, WA :-)
Cheers
Michael

Hi Menion, I don't want to talk to unfinished graphics, but the difference in the symbol location doesn't look very well. See SCR. Couldn't you use a color circle around the button instead of the dots? See CIRCLE1-2.

Suggestion: point away. the compass needle red, green, gray.
I would prefer the compass needle in the centering button. But where to turn it on and off?

Or maybe not red/green/gray for the north part of the needle, because a red compass arrow is always associated with "north". Maybe instead change the colour of the south part of the needle. The three different colours don't have to be so strong that they leap to the eye – it could also be white, light grey and maybe a greenish gray, or something like that.

I also think markers are something that draw attention to something that happens less frequent like e.g. a map update – the information about the current compass mode should be more unobtrusive.

Rotary knob always displayed.

You maybe just want to turn off "Dual centering button" option again to achieve this.

Nice one about the splitting of centering/rotation button. Easier to understand for newbies. I'd make it the default. Also, with GPS off and in dual button mode, there is no simple way to have the map rotate.

Lovely transition from the rotate/north mode.

Andrew, my reaction was on long record names. I just wanted to show it's not so bad. The "Add" button was added in the last version. See SCR. Entering is easier.

[@Žajdlík Josef]

@Žajdlík Josef
Options for track naming are already visible in the latest new RC version.

@michaelbechtold
We discussed this for quite a long time last week and this is the result. Value you suggest, so {t}, {city}, {activity} should be quite long. Anyway, you are of course correct, that this change should not affect already existing recording profiles. I'll try to update it somehow. Unfortunately, profiles that already changed with this version, have to be modified manually, sorry for this.

Trying the latest Beta today: the new track naming I consider a joke, sorry ;-)
Pls. bring back the time stamp naming, and if someone needs the location of the latest point in the default naming for their peace of mind - pls. add it AFTER the time stamp.
TXs for your understanding.

I like the new Distance Markers, but disagree with removing the unit. Now they look like tram or metro line numbers. I really liked Josef's proposal with a big number and the unit small in a second line. That looked nicely like a milestone. Please consider...

Would it be difficult to make a label for two lines? The symbol could be small. See SCR.

https://www.openandromaps.org/downloads/ubersichts-karten

Hier die wesentlichen Neuerungen – Feedback willkommen:

Versionsinformationen 202108-1.0

Die Dichte von Siedlungsnamen ist jetzt (*) signifikant reduziert für Gebiete mit Namen in 2 Alphabeten (lateinisch plus kyrillisch, arabisch, chinesische, hindi, etc.) und hoher Siedlungsdichte.

Die Namen von Orten (nicht im Sinne von größeren Siedlungen) erscheinen jetzt (*) in Bereichen die siedlungsfrei sind, mit bräunlicher Umrandung. Mit dieser Ausgabe werden auch Farmen so dargestellt (kaum in Ost-China, Mitteleuropa etc., aber in Australien und im mittleren US-Westen, z.B.).

Die regionalen Addons zur ZL-10-Weltkarte mit einem transparenten obersten Zoomlevel für Locus werden aufgegeben. In Locus 4 gibt es den max. Re-Scale-Mechanismus, der diesen Overhead unnötig macht. In Locus 3 wird die oberste Ebene für 2 Zoom-Schritte vergrößert, bevor die Vektor-Karte ebenfalls sichtbar wird.

Auf Anregung von Sonny (Spezialist für DTM) bekommen die Weltkarten einen Präfix, der die Namen weniger kryptisch macht. Aus W1-10-J70.mbtiles wird z.B. OAM-World-1-10-J70.mbtiles. Für ein paar Ausgaben werde ich allerdings beide Namensschemata bereitstellen, um den Nutzern mehr Zeit zu geben die Einstellungen in ihren Apps anzupassen (wobei das Auslaufmodell als solches gekennzeichnet wird).

Korrektur der Staatszugehörigkeit von Agaléga Islands (SC -> MU).

(*) nun ja, schon seit April, aber undokumentiert

hmm. I see it works for me, but I've 3 days internal, but on OneDrive I see last 5 backups with 5 - 8 days interval, so something does not work exactly perfect. I'll be watching it, thanks.

after update to V4.3.3.4 Beta three days ago
my daily set backup work again

Missing "news" is because I did not change the version code of the APK file. You may see that both files on Google Drive have the value "1031" in their name. It means, they are both "same versions" and may be easily switched. Android allows to upgrade to the higher version without a problem, but downgrade is possible only by un-install. When I generated apps with the same ID, it allows changing the new version in case of any problem to older, without worry. But > I'm unable to detect it is a new version so the news is not visible then.

Selection of the online map > ah you are right, thanks!