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Offline Slopes for Locus lite (Android)

Malin shared this question ago

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Hi locus team,

I‘m used to the fantastic offline slope shading on the previous Android locus version.

On ios - is there any plan for having slope shading available offline? This is the most crucial feature for ski touring ..

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Malin

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Michal Stupka ●

Hi Malin,

offline terrain shading is definitely planned to be implemented in the future, as well as many other features now present in the Android version only.

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Malin ●

Super cool! Do you have any estimate for when this will be released? Would this be available for the winter season 2025/2026?

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Michal Stupka ●

I'm afraid not. Maybe sometime during the next year.

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Eric Jeuffrain ●

It would be a first improvement as any Osmand Map is 10 time more accurate, more detailled, more shadowed than the poor Lomaps.

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Petr Voldan ●

Hi, thank you for your feedback! Could you please provide a bit more detail so we can better understand what needs improvement? Specifically, would you mind sharing more information about the accuracy you’re referring to?
Thanks Petr

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Eric Jeuffrain ●

Attached are six screenshots (3 normal and 3 zoom) :

- Openandromaps maps on Android

- Lomaps maps on iPhone

- Osmand maps on iPhone

The hill shadows and contour lines on Openandromaps are head and shoulders above the rest.

Osmand maps are also very good.

Finally, Lomaps maps are far behind.

I imagine that improvements are planned because for those of us who use iPhones, they are truly indispensable.

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Petr Voldan ●

Thank you for the comparison. Let me clarify the hillshade options in Locus Map on both platforms:

iOS

Online LoMaps – Includes quite detailed hillshade (in my opinion, better than OsmAnd).
Offline LoMaps – Currently, hillshade is not available, but this is something we plan to improve.

Android

Any Map – On Android, hillshading is independent of the map source. It doesn’t matter whether you use OpenAndroMaps, LoMaps, or any other map—the hillshade is always generated by the app. The quality of hillshade depends on the elevation data.

Locus Map (Android) allows downloading custom elevation data (more precise but with larger file size), which leads to better results https://docs.locusmap.app/doku.php/manual:faq:how_to_add_map_shading?#custom_elevation_data_sources.

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