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World offline map with altitudes

Wilfried shared this question ago

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Hi Menion,

on my smartphone with Android 6.01 I get this wonderful offline world map with altitudes in colours. On my tablet with Android 4.42 with the same offline map I only get outlines. What is the reason for this? Can I do anything about this?

Looking forward to your answer,

Wilfried

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Menion ●

Good day Wilfried,

to be true, I have no idea :). What is the source of this map? It is not visible on the screenshot, but such map is not generated from LoMaps and it also isn't shaded vector map we offer in Locus Store for low zoom levels.

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Wilfried ●

Hi, Menion,

thanks for your quick answer. As you can see in the attached first screenshot, I'm using LoMap Utah/USA. Zooming down to level 7 it shows the normal map, beginning with zoom level 6 it shows the altitude map for the whole world. As you can also see, I have the LoMap of World Outline installed.

Cheers from USA,

Wilfried

On Sep 28, 2016 2:30 AM, "Locus Map" wrote:

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Menion ●

Hello, thank You for extra information and screenshots.

For me it looks like older version of Locus Map application, is it possible? Because in latest versions of Locus, coloring looks little bit different (less colored).

Anyway suggest to use elevation coloring for maps that is already in Locus and that works for LoMaps for zoom levels 9 and higher. Please check menu > settings > Maps > Advanced > Map Shading > Colored altitude. This should give you even better coloring for maps. Just small warning, settings do not work for a LoMaps world map (that is automatically enabled for zoom levels 1 - 8). Hope my explanation is clear. Feel free to ask if I may help somehow.

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Michael Bechtold ●

Hi Wilfried, this is from Locus map indeed. Level 8 is also from Vector world map.

If you have 200 MB additional space left on your SD you might consider this one, which you can activate as an overlay. It is a pixel map, which is more appropriate for low zoom levels:

http://www.openandromaps.org/en/downloads/general-maps

(You "pay" more in space, which is not a limitation in 2016 anymore, yet you get more in quality and speed.)

And they will for sure display on any Android and device.

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Wilfried ●

Hi, Michael,

thanks for your quick answer and the link, which I will try when I'll be back home i. Germany. One further question: do you have an idea, why I don't get this altitude world map on my tablet with android 4.4?

Now something else: the LoMap for Utah shows trail names only from zoom 19 upwards, not with zoom 18 or less (see the screenshots). But zoom 19 is too big for an overview. If I decrease the map resolution manually by pinching to 80%, it's a bit better (see screenshot), but if I decrease it to 75% it goes down to zoom 18 and the trail name vanishes again. So one solution to this could be in Settings/Maps/Maps General/Advanced Features/Increase map resolution: to have the possibility of 75% and even 50% (you would have to call it “Cange map resolution“). Would that be possible? It would be a great help!

Looking forward to your answer,

Wilfried

On Sep 28, 2016 11:10 AM, "Locus Map" wrote:

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Menion ●

Altitude map on tablet ... same Locus Map version?

Scaling below 100% is not possible in this settings as it dramatically slow down loading of map and speed of whole application.I've anyway added to this topic my colleague who take care about style of LoMaps, so he may consider if these names should be placed to some lower zoom levels. Thanks for understanding,

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Petr Voldan ●

When it comes to visibility of trail names: The names should be visible from zoom=15 and higher. But LoMaps has internal logic that display or hide the texts/labels. It seems that this logic doesn't work well in some situations. I'm sorry but we can not offer any quick solution or workaround.

Petr

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