Category archive: Blog
News in version 2.11.0
After more then month (previous version was released 27.3.2013) is available a new version. Which great news bring and what you may expect? As usually, list of all main news is in welcome screen after first start. Anyway most interesting of them are Altitude manager – altitudes in mobile devices is disaster. It’s hard fight…
News in version 2.10.0
News in version 2.10.0 I would like to introduce a new pack of interesting features. Because there’s quite a lot of them, this will be just a short list of the most important Sorting of maps You know well long list of online maps or your own personal. Now you can allow Locus to sort…
News in version 2.9.0
New Main menu One post about new Main menu was already wrote a few days ago, so we really suggest to check it . What is not visible, is deeper integration with list of the functions. If left panel will be popular, we’ll gladly improve integration to also some of the functions. Sport activities To…
Elegant main menu
Android eco-system is growing. Very fast. Design patterns that were fresh and clean are now old and really user-unfriendly. And trends, like dashboard, are not anymore suggested and recommended. That’s why we decided to implement new and nice solution for Locus main menu. We expect, that it will brings fast and more comfortable orientation in…
News in version 2.8.6
Fresh vector maps After more then month, we bring you a new bunch of vector maps. Except fresh data from OpenStreeMap, maps contains additional points (previously missed) and together with improved styles in this version, it again move usage of Vector maps into higher level Automatic Vector maps loading Are you living on borders or…
News in version 2.8.4
ANT+ Last version offers great news for all sportsmen. Do you enjoy running or cycling together with Locus track record function? You can get more now! Locus works with ANT+ devices, so you can monitor your heart rate or for example bike cadence. ANT+ and Locus allow to record multiple sensors at the same time….
End of validity of the Add-on Vector maps
Due to the constant uncertainty about validity of the Add-on Vector maps for Locus, we would like to clarify the current situation. The add-on Vector maps was valid for limited time (since 2.9.2011 – 30.6.2012). Since 1.3.2012 we finished possibility of the purchase, so every user could use the add-on min. 4 months. After the…
Wiki manual for Locus
Dear users, we are still thinking, what can we improve, because still si what to improve and now it is our manual for the Locus. We needed something, what is user friendly, clear and easy to editing, so we discovered DokuWiki http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php/ and it seems ideal for both, for us and for you as users….
New support forum
Locus homepage (this site) is still in preparation and most important part (manual with some how-to part) is still missing. Anyway for all people, that have some ideas, issues, questions, or just want to talk with us, already for a long time exist forum. Forum is nice I think, full of interesting information, but: there…
Vector maps update & Version 1.15.1
Vector maps update I have finally almost complete pack of updated vector maps. CloudMade from where I was downloading pre-generated maps, have too low frequency of updates, so all maps are generated directly from planet.osm file, directly by me and also by own polygon bounding boxes. Together with this comes two important information: because bounding…