What's the meaning of red overlay icon on map centering button?

I bet many people will be asking the same unnecessary question. It has already been mentioned in https://forum.locusmap.eu discussions. A msgbox on tap of the icon would surely be better than nothing and save wasting people's time with needless confusion? I have this on a indoor-only tablet which has no GPS/ location enabled.

Hi,

the badge displays when Locus Map has no access to accurate location caused by GPS turned off in the system settings. After app start this alert emerges:

It also emerges after tapping the centering button. After tapping the button on the blue alert, the system permission displays:

Did you experience the centering button badge in other situations?

Hi Michal,

thank you for the explanation 🙂 Could you please add it in the documentation, so it becomes easier to find?

Both messages do not appear on my device, probably due to some setting I do not find at the moment. Even if they appeared, they would not help me personally to understand the meaning of the overlay icon without looking into the helpdesk – but they would do so if they contained the very same icon (red circle, white gear, and in the background question mark in aiming circle).

Similar: For me personally, it would help to understand in both directions, if Satellites dialog would also show that icon nearby the text "no visible satellites".

Concerning your last question: As I did not yet know the intended meaning, I did not check the overlay also appears in other situations. I'll observe a while and post my finding.

Best regards, Georg

All this discussion already, could be immediately solved by just displaying a useful msgbox when the centering button has the red settings badge.

Blue Info appears always if the option in the Expert Settings (Tools section - "Notify if disabled GPS") is not deactivated. If someone misses the message, they should check this setting.

I am very glad that this can be deactivated, because I do NOT want to see the blue info every time I press the map centering button. The red badget is sufficient information. 🙂

Hi Jiri, Could this red cog overlay also be hidden using expert settings? I already played around with ones mentioned here and still it shows which isn't something i want on need I actually work a lot with Locus having GPS off and don't need a constant reminder like that.

Honestly how no one thought it's too distracting like that?

I find that simple message thats shows up on first attempt to center the screen, the prompt to go to setting, is just fine as it were.

Pretty please?

I've never seen this icon before. But I think you'll get used to it. It's no different than the red recording icon.

Hi guys,

thanks for bringing this topic up. In case the GPS is disabled directly in the Locus Map app, these overlay icons are not necessary, and the current implementation was not exactly as I intended. New Beta version (today afternoon) will have this improved, so give it a try. Thanks.

Yup, i thought it was via play store at some point. Thanks! Also found this link via user guide too ;)

will wait for fresh build to drop.

thanks!