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Hi guys, the new version brings a lot of interesting changes and even more on the background. I have to thanks a lot for tests most of you made during last weeks. It really helped a lot!!

Version 4.20.0 was uploaded to the Google Play, but was rejected because of some missing info in subscription screen. It will take some time to fix it, so I've at least uploaded APK to the public Google Drive directory. If anyone wants to test and use this version, feel free to do it.

Have a nice weekend!

[@balloni55]

@balloni55
I have two options here.
- a current solution where the cache is sent to the "Import" system
- or the app may display the cache as a temporary point on the map where this first bottom button will be "+" > so add to own library. Maybe this second is better, right?

@Michael Bechtold
I was not touching the map core at all, so there has to be another change. You are talking about Maps > Advanced features > Pre-load global map, right?

Slowdown with a longer plan > ah, thanks for this. Another serious issue, will look at it.

@Tapio
Aspect coloring > I'll insert a legend into the app later. For now, this picture should help. Aspect coloring colorizes hills based on it's orientation.
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Stuck at the start > it happened to me twice too. Hmm ... another try in the next version.

Delay in removing the content of planner > I've noticed it as well, hopefully improved now.

@Andrew Heard
problem with saving of track > hmm, will have to test it a little more...

@freischneider & others
Usage of the space in the route selection dialog > what you see is the result of quite long testing and I'm quite happy with it to be true. As mentioned - there is enough space, so the app uses it to make it easier to work with the whole screen. Some options for quick selection of last used profiles? I was already thinking about it, but was not sure how to do it. So maybe later.

I think this is what he means.

Yup

I think as being a selection-dialog a vertical smaller window does not make sense, there might be profiles with a lot of parameters, and a changing dialog-size is of no real help (uncovered map is of no real value), same with another overlay which might be irritating.
As we can see by Luces screenshots the horizontal space might get slightly optimised, sticking to 3 (current state, some space leftover) or 4 icons with text. 5 is quite compact and might not help with thin gloves on or while being in motion (reduced precision) on bike.
Just some thoughts though reg. this.

[New Beta version 4.19.0.7]

Hi guys,

I have a feeling, that I do not spend enough time here on the forum. Sorry if you feel the same. The tasks I did last weeks took too much time to me and colleagues 

Anyway, here we go!

It is partially funny, that the last posts are focused on the customization of profiles. Well ...


New Beta version 4.19.0.7

Major changes

- internal offline LoRouter and online LoRouter are fully united. So they use the identical system. All customizations, systems for warnings, profiles, etc., all are identical!

- with this, I've made completely!! new system of how routing profiles are selected and also customized. Because the old system was a little "hacky", the new was rebuilt from scratch. This also means (and I've tried to keep old data), that you will have to setup custom profiles again, sorry.

- The second major (mainly on the background) change, a few weeks of work and testing, is a united and simplified system of how the app starts and destroys. Together with it, we have recreated the start screen and made it a little "nicer". The main reason was that it was quite a mess inside of the app over all these years and I had to have a single place of truth where all happens.

Both main changes are very complex and I also expect that some problems may arise. That's why I kept old Beta version on the Google Drive, so it may be easy to revert to the older version in case of serious problems.

So shortly: kudos to the brave and test at your own risk  !

There's an update 4.19.0.2 on Gdrive, 17th Oct.

[New Beta version 4.18.2.2]

New Beta version 4.18.2.2

Major new change - LoRouter customization & warnings

Enjoy the weekend!

Hi guys,

@freischneider @Graf Geo @Andrew Heard @Tapio @joeloc

thank you for your feedback, that at least red push pin works. Now, we have updated also POI handling to new Google Maps format and hopefully they won't change it in a month. If you encounter silly URL in search window in the next release version, check if you are on latest Google Maps version and if yes, let us know.

Hello, in the daily forecast detail panel it would be useful to have a link to the next and previous day at the bottom, avoiding having to go back to the main forecast menu each time.

Hi to all,
it took me quite a long to prepare a new version even there aren't any major changes, just a few very interesting tweaks. Well, the new map-screen content panel of course ... thanks for a big help with it. Hope it will be a useful tool for everyone.

And enjoy the new app version!

Hi guys,
we will be publishing a new final version to Google Play this week so please wait for it. There is currently no Beta version with fixed "Google Maps share point" behavior.

Hi guys,

handling Google Maps share button should be fixed. Please check the next version of Locus Map and if you still encounter some problems, please let us know.

And please have the search parse latlon and Pluscode. I can even do that with Tasker.

Sharing position from a Google Maps entry is still broken, ever since Locus implemented its new search system. It's really quite annoying while traveling to resort to this long tap hack.

Or rather you prefer to display no Icon maybe ?

Personally, I don't want to see the shaping points on map. It has always been like this. They're just a technical necessity to build a track.

Suggestion: Blue background also for points and tracks, if at least one is shown. White if 0 or temp. hidden. Helps orienteering of the eye.

Transparency helps here. Unfortunately, the colors are then no longer as strong

How about only displaying the pattern, e. g. arrows? This is what I do.  Arrows in slope colour.