Hi, please see here for some update in this regard!
https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/32424-locus-map-lite-ios-beta-program-open-for-new-testers
https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/32424-locus-map-lite-ios-beta-program-open-for-new-testers
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Show posts MenuQuote from: lor74cas on May 24, 2023, 12:48:23A filter could be introduced to limit searches to a radius of x kilometers.But isn't "search this area" exactly this? Or do you missing it even for category highlighting?
We thus avoid useless occurrences of results that are too distant both on the map and in the list.
Quote from: T-mo on May 23, 2023, 22:44:38As a physicist I honestly don't understand the logic to show results not requested by user's inputWhat do you mean by this? Am I understand right, that you are only referring to category highlighting? In case you search for something specific and don't get suitable results in suggestion module, just hit magnifying glass on your keyboard.
Quote from: Andrew Heard on May 22, 2023, 18:47:24or even... have the "Barcelona"(s) in the list BUT only change the zoom if & when that item in the list is tapped?The app zooms out only to be visible nearest result together with your previous location on map, so even if you have Barcelona in the list the app will not zoom out to it in case there are closer results. So if you get big unexpected zoom outs when fire up text search, we most likely wasn't able to find what you wanted.
Quote from: lor74cas on May 23, 2023, 08:58:55If the search is done from the center of the map or from the GPS position, it is from that point that I would like the distance to be measured.Search is always "done" from the center of the map. But I agree, it might be confusing when you search when locked on your GPS position and map will automatically move to show you nearest result, thus these distance markers not longer relates to GPS position. Will think about it!
Quote from: michaelbechtold on May 22, 2023, 20:19:22What I do not understand: before the new search system, Locus DID use Google APIs, right?Ok, I admit that I ignored previous "Google driven" search in my replies more that it is fair, sorry for that. Menion wrote few reasons why we don't want to use it for the future, but the list is even longer including its unreability. But the last thing we want to be your search experience worse than before, so thanks a lot for your feedbacks again. We for sure have some ideas already how to adress some mentioned topics or at least make the issues less of the problem, so keep your fingers crossed!
Quote from: Andrew Heard on May 15, 2023, 16:25:21For consistency, could the category hirearchy be the same as offline LoPoints?I understand request. But as online search is the new stuff, the answer is, if the offline category hierarchy can be same with online one. And hopefully yes, but this will be confirmed during second development phase, where we will focus to old offline searches.
Quote from: T-mo on May 13, 2023, 00:36:52If I explicitely search for health, then I explicitly search for health. Sure, there might be a pet shop nearby. Honestly I currently have no idea of an usecase of such extended results without any differentiation.Ah, then it is something else than to what I replied before. You are referring to cumulating child categories under "top level" one like "Health", which are all highlighted in such case, I get it now. Yep, there is some definition of hiearchery of POIs categories, which we might review based on such feedbacks. Thanks
Quote from: T-mo on May 13, 2023, 00:36:52Clicking somewhere else was intuitively to get more map screen space, no bottom point detail, and also by mistake, sometimes i don't hit a POI precisely.I understand what you mean now I think. Yep, when you are in search screen, you will "lost" it when doing long-press only, however when in POI detail from search, short-press cancels everything. This is by design, as when users are in POI details, most likely higher probability is they already found what they wanted and doesn't need to go back. This of course brings mentioned issue for other cases, where they want to go through more POI details listed in search results. We will think about this.
Quote from: Tapio on May 13, 2023, 08:14:24I noticed it zooms to the first resultIn case you don't go directly from suggestions to POI/adress detail, you will always have even your previous map position on screen when opening search results exactly for reasons you mentioned: To not loose idea where nearest results are related to your previous map area. So the map area is calculated to show your your previous position and nerest one now with same safe margins as most general behavior rule to any search case. Before we will as planned split it to more distinct behaviours based on spread of search results.
Quote from: freischneider on May 13, 2023, 10:02:52POI on the map do not open.That is not correct behaviour - can you please record screen video of this? I can't simulate it.
Quote from: freischneider on May 13, 2023, 10:09:05Also with search: Fountain I would like C. Drinking water and C. Source. At the moment there is no category at all.As Radim wrote, that thesaurus file is something else than defined hirearchy of POIs.
Quote from: michaelbechtold on May 11, 2023, 13:27:05@Radim & Jan: did I miss a statement re. my proposal to include Google API search again?Well there are lot of reasons to not have our default online search based on Google Search API. Not only because this API is not that great as the search available in actual Google Maps. One of the other reason is also that we need better integrations to data what we work with even outside of search functions (for now and even more for our future plans). Can you send some specific examples of results which you are not happy with?
Quote from: freischneider on May 11, 2023, 14:17:37They plan to highlight certain ones more. I think that's great, because some are quite important. Best something like that should also be in preset. But if one has the selection already I would offer there the possibility: 1. do not show at all 2.normal show 3. highlight show.I didn't understand that part well I guess. Who you mean by They? What do you mean by difference between "normal show" and "highlight show" for POI categories?
Quote from: T-mo on May 11, 2023, 16:57:22- cursor in search input: I have the keyboard, but the 3 basic android control-buttons are missingCan you please post image of your problem?
Quote from: T-mo on May 11, 2023, 16:57:22- if I search by category, eg. health, also results of other categories are additionally shown on mapThat is by design, but we are considering further steps here. POIs are already to some extend content not separable from the background map. The map is designed in mind with POIs presented on top of them. So the question is, do you have issue to distinguish between highligted POIs and normal ones on the map when searching for some particular of selected category?
Quote from: T-mo on May 11, 2023, 16:57:22- if I input letters the shown results are located somewhere else, not nearby current map cursor, and also no distance is shown in the list. As I don't see the results in context of a map (location) it is of limited valueIt's because you don't always search only in the area shown on the screen and app can't know your use-case on the start. Even if there are some results on the visible map, they might be subordinate compared the one 2km away. If you want to filter results only for visible area, there is immediately available button on the map for this purpose. Distance marker from gps position will be later added to the list. To get some context of text results with the map, slide with the list up/down.
Quote from: T-mo on May 11, 2023, 16:57:22if the results are shown around the map as icons and I click the map for 1-2 seconds the results are gone. Might be by design, don't know. If I reenter search there is a bin icon next to category though nothing is actively shownWhat is the reason to hold-click on the map during search for you? That bin is for deleting such search from your personal history.
Quote from: T-mo on May 11, 2023, 16:57:22the result list seems to be a mixture (as noted in #1) with missing visible structure. So I am first busy to get the clou, structure or filter the results, then I can profit of them..this should already be given by a proper design & layoutWhat do you suggest, please? It is expected, that 80% of search will be covered by suggestion module which by design search differently (tries to predict what you really want to search, and so tries to get to desired content with as little efford as possible) than when you fire up search of some particular text string (when you didn't get what you want in suggestions or want to find something with the name you remember but not sure what exactly and want to look it up on the map with others).
Quote from: Andrew Heard on May 11, 2023, 18:04:51thanks, but I'm confused between LoPoints(offline) & new search Offline places - a better example maybe - LoPoints search for cafe & 1st two are within 1km of me (both have "cafe" in the name by the way), whereas from Offline places the 1st is 8km away?This is really about new online search. With its launch the offline POI search become evem more obsolete and we have already plans to work on this.
Quote from: Andrew Heard on May 11, 2023, 18:04:51And as @freischneider has written, sometimes a "category" is in the list of search results, but sometimes not, and not in the"cafe" example.Hmm, would be useful to at least know translated category of some actual POI to be able to know what to input in case you want to highlight similar. Will discuss it.
Quote from: Tapio on May 11, 2023, 19:34:27Map is on Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. GPS off, device located in the area.Hmmm, Radim will look into this. New search is language dependant (which is also one of its known weakness), and I got good results around Dormund for "halde" when searching in czech. Something suspicius there!
Quote from: balloni55 on May 12, 2023, 08:44:27locus closesSeems like some performance issue because of number of content you have enabled on map. Marek will look into this, thanks.