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Uncategorized Boards => BETAS => Topic started by: orux on February 25, 2014, 05:01:06 PM

Title: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: orux on February 25, 2014, 05:01:06 PM
New map viewer with:



-> Continuous zoom. Combines the digital zoom and tile level change as needed. No jumps between layer changes.

-->Rotate the map with two fingers (not available if the magnetic sensor rotates the map).

-->Drag the map meanwhile pitch to zoom.



->New KML/KMZ file reader, faster.



-->NO BETAS AVAILABLE!



:beta8

-->online maps organized in folders. online maps can be hidden (long press). restore online map sources with top 'refresh button'.





:beta7

-->change in nomenclature. from .17 to .19, because the release of .18 version, that solves some bugs.



:beta4

-->double tap (move & zoom) progresive.

-->mapsforge maps cached for fast rendering.







:beta3

-->progresive zoom using buttons (on screen or volume buttons).

-->disabled bitmap filtering during zoom.

-->button zoom operations always finalize in a x2 digital zoom level.

-->new bugs? ;)



 



:beta2 with a lot of changes! may be new bugs, sorry :)

-->enabled smooth bitmap scaling

-->disabled the rotation when zooming, and the zoom when rotating.







:beta1

-->improved zoom



orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on February 25, 2014, 06:49:55 PM
Hi again Jose, I am glad we have a new beta for testing :-)



I use multilayer offline maps (50% and 100%) and only the 50% zoom layer is visible with the new zooming method.

I tried digital zoom, between layers and combined with the same results. The 100% zoom never loaded.

The digital or combined zoom just zooms digitaly in the 50% layer and I get a blur image.



When I use "only between layers" zoom, the number in the dashboard that indicates the digital zoom increases but the map zoom does not change.



I have already sent you from previous tests a sample of the maps I am using. These are originaly for oziexplorer and converted with Oruxmapsdesktop



Thanks

Haris
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: orux on February 25, 2014, 08:00:10 PM
Quote from: "Legend"Hi again Jose, I am glad we have a new beta for testing :-)



I use multilayer offline maps (50% and 100%) and only the 50% zoom layer is visible with the new zooming method.

I tried digital zoom, between layers and combined with the same results. The 100% zoom never loaded.

The digital or combined zoom just zooms digitaly in the 50% layer and I get a blur image.



When I use "only between layers" zoom, the number in the dashboard that indicates the digital zoom increases but the map zoom does not change.



I have already sent you from previous tests a sample of the maps I am using. These are originaly for oziexplorer and converted with Oruxmapsdesktop



Thanks

Haris


Hi, Haris, thanks;



in settings--maps, please:



set pre-zoom level to 100%



and pitch to zoom mode to 'between layers'



I have to remove the pitch to zoom setting, because it has no sense with the new mode,



orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on February 25, 2014, 09:05:46 PM
Quote from: "orux"
Hi, Haris, thanks;



in settings--maps, please:



set pre-zoom level to 100%



and pitch to zoom mode to 'between layers'



I have to remove the pitch to zoom setting, because it has no sense with the new mode,



orux

You are right!

With the pinch zoom set to "Only between layers" the zoom works as you describe.

The default zoom level is 100% and the zoom autoload is checked.

Sometimes there is an accidental rotation of the map :-)

Maybe an option to disable the rotation should be useful.



With the screen buttons (combined zoom) it works as before.



I also had some crashes.

I think that if we have pinch zoom out and rotation at the same time, when we reach the point that the less detailed map will load, the application crash.





Another notice,

Sometimes during zoom in or zoom out, the less detailed map with a lot digital zoom is loaded.



For example if I zoom in from digital zoom 46, sometimes the less detailed map with a large number of digital zoom (larger than 160 or 200) will load. If I continue to zoom in, the detailed map will load again with digita; zoom 68.

Also during map transition on neighbor maps the zoom level is not kept the same. So when I slide the between maps I have different zoom levels.





Haris
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: orux on February 25, 2014, 09:14:09 PM
Quote from: "Legend"
Quote from: "orux"
Hi, Haris, thanks;



in settings--maps, please:



set pre-zoom level to 100%



and pitch to zoom mode to 'between layers'



I have to remove the pitch to zoom setting, because it has no sense with the new mode,



orux

You are right!

With the pinch zoom set to "Only between layers" the zoom works as you describe.

Sometimes there is an accidental rotation of the map :-)

Maybe an option to disable the rotation should be useful.



With the screen buttons (combined zoom) it works as before.



I also had some crashes.

I think that if we have pinch zoom out and rotation at the same time, when we reach the point that the less detailed map will load the application crash.



The default zoom level is 100% and the zoom autoload is checked.



Haris




Thanks.



Yes, I will add an option to disable rotation gesture.



You can reset rotation using reset zoom button.



Do you have enabled bug report option (settings--application)?



If you can reproduce the crash, I will receive a report if you have data connection.



orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on February 25, 2014, 09:30:52 PM
Sorry but while you was answering the post, I was editing it :-) :-)



Yes the "send anonymous bug report" is checked
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: skibum218 on February 26, 2014, 05:40:49 AM
Quote from: "orux"New map viewer with:



-> Continuous zoom. Combines the digital zoom and tile level change as needed. No jumps between layer changes.





orux


Just quickly tried the continuous zoom. Great feature! Thanks for all of your hard work.



Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: arthur on February 26, 2014, 01:46:17 PM
I am trying the new zoom feature and when there is only the one map (with many layers) it seems to work as expected.



However when I have two maps - one with one layer at zoom 14 and the other with many layers (zoom 6 - 13) - it seems to do odd things when zooming from levels 13 to 14 and back again. (I have "zoom autoload" ticked.)



For example when pinching in (in other words zooming out) the map will go from zoom 14, 57% to zoom 13, 221%. I would expect the map to switch to layer zoom 13 but with a percentage less than 114%.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: orux on February 26, 2014, 07:51:37 PM
Quote from: "arthur"I am trying the new zoom feature and when there is only the one map (with many layers) it seems to work as expected.



However when I have two maps - one with one layer at zoom 14 and the other with many layers (zoom 6 - 13) - it seems to do odd things when zooming from levels 13 to 14 and back again. (I have "zoom autoload" ticked.)



For example when pinching in (in other words zooming out) the map will go from zoom 14, 57% to zoom 13, 221%. I would expect the map to switch to layer zoom 13 but with a percentage less than 114%.


Hi,



thanks;



updated beta1.



it is difficult to manage all situations.



check your default pre-zoom level. If different than 100%, for example 200%, the digitial zoom should change between 150% and 300% at each layer, aprox.





orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on February 26, 2014, 08:39:04 PM
I just installed beta1.



The pintch zoom works excellent! I don't have the unwanted transitions between layers we mentioned above :-)

Good job!



I noticed that the amount of the digital zoom performed before going to the next level, dependeds on how detailed is each map.

For example my less detailed map has information up to level 10 and my next detailed map is at level 14. So it have to digitaly zoom a lot befor changing to the next map.

I think this is very good behaviour!



The feature to maintain zoom levels when sliding the map is also fixed!



The crash problem seems also fixed, I tried the same procedure but never crashed until now.

I hope the reports helped with that :-)





The only issue I noticed now is that the on screen buttons zoom does not changes maps during zoom despite the fact that the "Zoom autoload" is checked. I tried with "combined zoom" and "Only between layers" selected.

When combined zoom is selected, the digital zoom works only at the highest leyer of the map.



Bravo,

Keep improving!
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Maki on February 26, 2014, 10:14:05 PM
Hi, Jose, great news! One of my gripes with Mapsforge maps in the current stable release of Oruxmaps is the excessive gap between zoom level, which is exacerbated by the second or so of blank screen during redraw, plus the fact that the map will be at a different magnification than the one where I lifted my fingers. The feeling of the new beta when zooming is excellent, so fast, natural and smooth!



However there are IMHO some rough points.



Rotation is too easy to trigger by mistake. I agree that there should be an option to disable it completely. But even when enabled it should be made harder to activate. In Google Maps there is a high threshold to activate rotation. Also, while you can zoom after having started a rotation, if you start with zooming rotation is inhibited. I think it works better that way.



BTW, I find especially smart the triple tap and drag in Google Maps, as it allows to zoom with a single hand. It would be nice to have it in OM.



Then there is the real problem: image quality. Sorry to be blunt but it really sucks, sometimes it's really disturbing. I understand the need for speed when moving, but afterwards the screen should be redrawn with a better resampling algorithm. I attach a couple of screenshots, one with a 122% digital zoom in OM, the other with cubic resampling in GIMP to see the difference in smoothness: it's huge.

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There could also be a snap to round values for the zoom, it doesn't really make sense to resample at 98% or 102%, it just ruins image quality without any benefit.



I see that the distance scale at the bottom of the screen doesn't scale accordingly.



Thanks,

Maki.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: arthur on February 26, 2014, 10:43:15 PM
Thanks for fixing.



(Just to echo the previous posts, that the pinch to zoom seems to be fully working with the beta1, and I agree it works well with missing layers e.g. if map has some zoom levels missing. Similarly scrolling out of map range (where not all layers have the same coverage) seems to be fine.



One point is that it would be very good if the volume key "combined zoom" worked exactly like the pinch to zoom with a constant increment, e.g. 25%, added or subtracted with each volume key press. In other words with automatic movement between layers while keeping the zoom rate constant. Not sure if this is feasible.)
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: orux on February 27, 2014, 08:27:45 PM
Quote from: "Maki"Hi, Jose, great news! One of my gripes with Mapsforge maps in the current stable release of Oruxmaps is the excessive gap between zoom level, which is exacerbated by the second or so of blank screen during redraw, plus the fact that the map will be at a different magnification than the one where I lifted my fingers. The feeling of the new beta when zooming is excellent, so fast, natural and smooth!



However there are IMHO some rough points.



Rotation is too easy to trigger by mistake. I agree that there should be an option to disable it completely. But even when enabled it should be made harder to activate. In Google Maps there is a high threshold to activate rotation. Also, while you can zoom after having started a rotation, if you start with zooming rotation is inhibited. I think it works better that way.



BTW, I find especially smart the triple tap and drag in Google Maps, as it allows to zoom with a single hand. It would be nice to have it in OM.



Then there is the real problem: image quality. Sorry to be blunt but it really sucks, sometimes it's really disturbing. I understand the need for speed when moving, but afterwards the screen should be redrawn with a better resampling algorithm. I attach a couple of screenshots, one with a 122% digital zoom in OM, the other with cubic resampling in GIMP to see the difference in smoothness: it's huge.



There could also be a snap to round values for the zoom, it doesn't really make sense to resample at 98% or 102%, it just ruins image quality without any benefit.



I see that the distance scale at the bottom of the screen doesn't scale accordingly.



Thanks,

Maki.


Hi, thanks;



I have been very awkward!



It was off the filtering of bitmaps for years, for performance issues, but I think it should now work well on all devices.



The new beta inclue some of your suggestions.



orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on February 27, 2014, 09:07:27 PM
beta2 allready out and testing! :-)



I believe that the image quality is very good!



No more accidental rotation, If you want rotation you rotate, if you want zoom, you zoom.

The choice in settings for enabling/disabling rotation very helpful too!



I noticed three little things.

1)The on screen buttons or volume buttons zoom doubles the size every time they are pressed. Maybe a little smaller amount of zoom whould be better, in my opinion.



2)If I load a kml overlay or a track, if I use the buttons for zoom, the thikness of the track changes during zoom, sometimes is very thik and on the next zoom level or when I use pinch zoom it becomes normal.



3)A little strange shape of the kml overlay, a lot of corners and straight lines. This is not disturbing it keeps the shape, I just mention it.



Great job!



Haris
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on February 28, 2014, 05:52:36 AM
Another quick one :-)



4)When I reach the highest layer of my offline maps, oruxmaps naturally performs only digital zoom as long as it cannot find the next layer.



During this digital zoom, the scale bar stops changing and we have larger map with the same scale bar.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: arthur on February 28, 2014, 10:26:39 AM
Beta2 works well for me. The new zooming and rotation is very smooth.



(I notice the point Legend makes about the thickness of tracks.



Regarding the amount of zoom with the volume keys, I think the default of a doubling on each press is about right if, like me, your maps have a lot of layers. However I can imagine that others would want a lower amount of zoom with each press. Maybe the amount of zoom with each key press can be a parameter.)



Regards
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: goosiebn on February 28, 2014, 04:35:11 PM
I use volume keys to zoom with the digital zoom for volume keys turned off, with openandromaps.



I'm finding that if I zoom in or out twice, the first zoom happens digitally and it starts rendering the new zoom level. If I zoom the second time immediately, only the tiles that had had time to render at the previous zoom are now digitally zoomed - the tiles from the zoom previous to that (the original zoom level) are now discarded.



This makes zooming almost as jarring as it used to be on slower devices.



I would expect all tiles to be continually digitally zoomed until a full redraw has finished.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: goosiebn on February 28, 2014, 05:49:14 PM
Also would be handy for volume key non digital zoom to have a quick transition effect between the two zoom levels to mirror the polish you're achieving with pinch zoom.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on February 28, 2014, 09:18:44 PM
Quote from: "Legend"beta2 allready out and testing! :-)

2)If I load a kml overlay or a track, if I use the buttons for zoom, the thikness of the track changes during zoom, sometimes is very thik and on the next zoom level or when I use pinch zoom it becomes normal.

I just saw that we have the same with the waypoints' icons and the cursor during tracklog.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Maki on March 01, 2014, 12:19:58 AM
On my Galaxy Nexus with OpenAndroMaps the Beta2 works fine except for the bug already posted by Legend at zoom level 20.



Rendering is perfect now, and gesture handling works well, no unintentional rotations.



Zooming is fluid enough, but I notice that without bitmap filtering it was faster, it felt like the map was glued to the fingers. Right now there is a very slight lag on my device, not annoying at all, if I hadn't tried the previous version I'd probably wouldn't notice it. But if possible I'd try an option to turn filtering off while zooming. I suppose that on older, slower phones it can be worse (or maybe not, since they have less pixels to move around).



Another minor thing is the threshold to change zoom level. It seems that you go to 140% of the current level and then move to 70% of the next one. I'd try to change that to 145-150%. The reason is that at 70% some symbols get a bit small and may lose legibility. I'm not sure about this one, just a feeling.



Thanks again, this is a really welcome improvement.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: goosiebn on March 01, 2014, 09:32:03 AM
It would also be nice for volume button non digital zooming to snap back to 100%. That way I can do fine zooming with pinching and predictable zooming (100% digital, cycling between zoom levels - as it used to be) with volume (or on - screen buttons).



Otherwise, to get predictable zooming on the volume keys I have to use digital zoom on the on screen buttons to snap back to 100% first.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on March 01, 2014, 10:16:01 AM
Too many different opinions about the threshold and the step :-) :-) i suppose confusing for the developer :-)



These opinions depends on the size of the screen of each user and on the maps he is using.



For example the 50% buttons step is very good on my 3.4 inch phone but too much on my 7 inch tablet :-)
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: goosiebn on March 01, 2014, 10:59:02 AM
The digital zoom isn't snapping to 100% as I originally thought it was, but I have found the 100% zoom button now.



I would like the buttons, digital and non digital zoom, to somehow snap back to 100% as they are used, without having to press this other button first.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: goosiebn on March 01, 2014, 11:02:51 AM
I'm also having trouble snapping the map back to North.



I'd like anyway to have a map orientation symbol, but it would be handy if you pressed it the map would spin back to North. Google Earth does this when you double click on the N of the map orientation tool.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: goosiebn on March 01, 2014, 11:18:01 AM
Map zoom dashboard button isn't constantly refreshing as you are panning and zooming, but coordinates and DEM altitude are.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: nanu on March 01, 2014, 07:33:19 PM
@orux



includes this beta also a solution for this issue ?



//http://www.oruxmaps.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=477



thanks



nanu
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: orux on March 01, 2014, 07:58:54 PM
Quote from: "nanu"@orux



includes this beta also a solution for this issue ?



//http://www.oruxmaps.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=477



thanks



nanu


Hi,



I think that in last versions, only when gps moves the map, the map should rotate in your direction (if this mode is enabled).



Sure that the last betas work in this way.



orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: orux on March 01, 2014, 08:03:42 PM
Quote from: "Legend"Too many different opinions about the threshold and the step :-) :-) i suppose confusing for the developer :-)



These opinions depends on the size of the screen of each user and on the maps he is using.



For example the 50% buttons step is very good on my 3.4 inch phone but too much on my 7 inch tablet :-)


Hi,



All suggestions are welcomed :)



Among all the ideas we can find interesting alternatives.



Later there will be the option to define the threshold.



Please, try last beta.



orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: arthur on March 01, 2014, 09:42:23 PM
Beta 3 works well for me.



One thought is that when manually switching maps it would be good if oruxmaps kept the true scale constant even if the maps had different zoom levels.



For example suppose oruxmaps was displaying map A (on zoom level 14 and digital zoom 150). Then suppose we manually switch to map B which has no zoom level 14 but has a zoom level 13. Then on switch it would be good if oruxmaps showed map B on zoom level 13 with digital zoom now 300 to keep the scale constant. This would be useful when comparing the same ground features in different maps (with layers of different zoom levels).
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on March 01, 2014, 11:02:34 PM
Beta 3 tested for a while



The thickness of the drawn tracks, overlays and waypoints is OK now!



The progresive zoom is very good opticaly!

Sometimes during zoom out (with the buttons) I have a little lag, propably when redrawing the map.



The funny thing is that the lag is bigger at my 2core tablet and smaller at my 600MHz phone.

Maybe because at the big screen, bigger surface of the map needs redrawing.



Don't consider the lag as critical, there is no problem and the application is full useable :-)



The scale bar is working perfect, it keeps changing until you reach the highest digital zoom
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: goosiebn on March 02, 2014, 03:48:26 PM
Hardware button zooming works much better ta in b3.



However, when zooming out the top and bottom row tiles get misplaced. The zoom animation works, but when that's done, the top and bottom tiles are rendered incorrectly until the redraw eventually corrects it.



//https://www.dropbox.com/s/bitoxwgnc4gyyaq/MVI_7915.MOV

//https://www.dropbox.com/s/676wcrngari6ytp/MVI_7917.MOV



I think it may only be a problem for vector maps and it depends on the current map view as to how big or small a problem it is. When you do see it it is repeatable by simply zooming in and back out again.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on March 02, 2014, 05:13:50 PM
Quote from: "goosiebn"Hardware button zooming works much better ta in b3.

I think it may only be a problem for vector maps and it depends on the current map view as to how big or small a problem it is. When you do see it it is repeatable by simply zooming in and back out again.


I just tried with one vector map and I confirm this, but only for the vector maps. The raster maps work perfect.

Maybe because the vector map is drawn by many little tiles.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: goosiebn on March 02, 2014, 08:37:27 PM
Also when zooming out, it pauses for a while before drawing the bottom row of tiles. I suspect there is some unnecessary rendering of off screen tiles going on. Or, given the speed of the draw when it gets round to it is it rendering the tiles but not displaying then immediately?



//https://www.dropbox.com/s/676wcrngari6ytp/MVI_7917.MOV

//https://www.dropbox.com/s/rounwftg0arr335/MVI_7920.MOV
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: orux on March 03, 2014, 06:20:53 PM
Quote from: "goosiebn"Also when zooming out, it pauses for a while before drawing the bottom row of tiles. I suspect there is some unnecessary rendering of off screen tiles going on. Or, given the speed of the draw when it gets round to it is it rendering the tiles but not displaying then immediately?



//https://www.dropbox.com/s/676wcrngari6ytp/MVI_7917.MOV

//https://www.dropbox.com/s/rounwftg0arr335/MVI_7920.MOV


Hi



That effect is due to the size of the cache of images, depending on the size of the screen and the size of each tile. Due to some limitations about the memory that each app can use, specially in old devices, it is not as large as I would like.



When you zoom out, the tiles that are not visible, can not be loaded quick because these tiles are not into the cache, so they are not visible, and should be decoded and rendered, a hard work specially with vector maps.



Try the new beta, images and vector maps are cached on file system, the rendering should be faster after the first use of each tile (zoom in, then zoom out, then returning to zoom in, rendering must be fast).



orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: rvb on March 03, 2014, 09:32:09 PM
In my opinion you should reduce the number of versions substantially. In general it would be wise to bring this app to a professional level.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: goosiebn on March 03, 2014, 09:44:15 PM
Rendering is much faster now.



The misplaced tiles are still there though, but for a much briefer time.



It's doing it on zooming out on the hardware buttons, for vector maps and the openandro world map (very noticeable with the bigger tiles).



On zooming out, the zoom animation happens, the last frame is drawn (completed new zoom level with old tiles digitally zoomed). Then it renders some of the tiles incorrectly (on three sides of the screen), then it starts on drawing the new zoom level tiles.



//https://www.dropbox.com/s/1y16y38htrh69ld/MVI_7923.MOV

//https://www.dropbox.com/s/pnjhfl9olgbovij/MVI_7924.MOV
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on March 03, 2014, 10:12:57 PM
Tried beta 4



Double tap (move & zoom) progresive. Very good, I like it!



The vector map redrawing is not better for me :-(



I don't use vector maps but I tried one just for the beta test.

It is a Garmin IMG file with a lot of information, not just major roads.



The redrawing is better after the first time but the delay is still there.



These vector maps has all layers in vector data, not as a photo, so maybe the tiles that oruxmaps creates, doesn't need the graphic improvement that adds the delay.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: goosiebn on March 04, 2014, 11:22:50 AM
Is it intentional that double tap zoom only zooms digitally?
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: Legend on March 04, 2014, 04:59:00 PM
Quote from: "goosiebn"Is it intentional that double tap zoom only zooms digitally?

I just tested this and it happens only if the "only digital zoom" is enabled for the on screen buttons
Title: Default Zoom
Post by: marcuss1 on March 06, 2014, 05:43:25 PM
In previous versions, my default zoom (set to 300% due to poor eyesight and resolution of screen) was respected as I zoomed. Now it keeps zooming to maps that are around 100%. There needs to be an option that the 300% value is the default view after zooming in/out to another layer.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: orux on March 07, 2014, 04:55:50 PM
Quote from: "Legend"
Quote from: "goosiebn"Is it intentional that double tap zoom only zooms digitally?

I just tested this and it happens only if the "only digital zoom" is enabled for the on screen buttons


you are right,



this gesture is equal to on screen buttons, relative to zoom,



orux
Title: Re: Default Zoom
Post by: orux on March 07, 2014, 04:56:32 PM
Quote from: "marcuss1"In previous versions, my default zoom (set to 300% due to poor eyesight and resolution of screen) was respected as I zoomed. Now it keeps zooming to maps that are around 100%. There needs to be an option that the 300% value is the default view after zooming in/out to another layer.


It is a bug,



I will try to keep pre zoom level if enabled.



orux
Title: Re: Default Zoom
Post by: Legend on March 07, 2014, 10:07:18 PM
Quote from: "orux"
Quote from: "marcuss1"In previous versions, my default zoom (set to 300% due to poor eyesight and resolution of screen) was respected as I zoomed. Now it keeps zooming to maps that are around 100%. There needs to be an option that the 300% value is the default view after zooming in/out to another layer.


It is a bug,



I will try to keep pre zoom level if enabled.



orux

I  had never changed the default zoom setting to face this issue.



Just tried with the beta5 and it works perfect!

Double or half (zoom in/zoom out) of the default zoom and keeps the value between layers :-)
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: marcuss1 on March 08, 2014, 03:21:43 PM
Thanks - fixed
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: goosiebn on March 13, 2014, 09:57:25 AM
Quote from: "goosiebn"However, when zooming out the top and bottom row tiles get misplaced. The zoom animation works, but when that's done, the top and bottom tiles are rendered incorrectly until the redraw eventually corrects it.



//https://www.dropbox.com/s/bitoxwgnc4gyyaq/MVI_7915.MOV

//https://www.dropbox.com/s/676wcrngari6ytp/MVI_7917.MOV



I think it may only be a problem for vector maps and it depends on the current map view as to how big or small a problem it is. When you do see it it is repeatable by simply zooming in and back out again.


For info this does still happen and it also happens just as often for raster maps, contrary to what I originally thought.



It is generally hardly noticeable when the cache is being fully used.



Cheers
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: robertop on April 04, 2014, 05:40:31 PM
I set the phone's voice tts in Italian. Enabling voice messages she (the voice is female) says correctly speed, distance, etc. but the hours, minutes, seconds and Kilometers seem to be written in English but read with Italian pronunciation (eg: 0 hours 10 minutes 15 seconds)

Note that in release 5.5.18 were read as : 0 e 10 e 15 secondi, and distances was pronunced correctly as: xx Kilometri .



It is also miscalculated the time of arrival (in 5.5.18 was ok)



I'm sorry for my bad english, I hope I was clear.



Thanks

Roberto
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: orux on April 06, 2014, 04:55:03 PM
Quote from: "robertop"I set the phone's voice tts in Italian. Enabling voice messages she (the voice is female) says correctly speed, distance, etc. but the hours, minutes, seconds and Kilometers seem to be written in English but read with Italian pronunciation (eg: 0 hours 10 minutes 15 seconds)

Note that in release 5.5.18 were read as : 0 e 10 e 15 secondi, and distances was pronunced correctly as: xx Kilometri .



It is also miscalculated the time of arrival (in 5.5.18 was ok)



I'm sorry for my bad english, I hope I was clear.



Thanks

Roberto


Hi,



not all the voices are translated, if you want to help... :)





orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: Legend on April 10, 2014, 09:45:20 PM
I don't know if this behaviour is intentional but I noticed that if I rotate the map and then disable the rotate guesture from the settings, when I press the zoom reset button, the map stay rotated and does not orientate to the north.



If the button is pressed with the rotate guesture turned on again, then the map's orientation is reseted.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: orux on April 26, 2014, 07:43:49 PM
Quote from: "Legend"I don't know if this behaviour is intentional but I noticed that if I rotate the map and then disable the rotate guesture from the settings, when I press the zoom reset button, the map stay rotated and does not orientate to the north.



If the button is pressed with the rotate guesture turned on again, then the map's orientation is reseted.




Thanks,



solved,





orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: Legend on April 27, 2014, 12:40:33 AM
I am glad  :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:



Keep doing great work!
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: valleyofdawn on April 29, 2014, 03:08:05 PM
Hi,



Can you open more folders for the online maps?

Say divide them to basemaps and layers, or world, Europe, USA?

Right now all my old maps just fall into layers/world

An extra 2 clicks to reach the same long list.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: orux on April 30, 2014, 07:44:05 PM
Quote from: "valleyofdawn"Hi,



Can you open more folders for the online maps?

Say divide them to basemaps and layers, or world, Europe, USA?

Right now all my old maps just fall into layers/world

An extra 2 clicks to reach the same long list.


Hi,



you can organize your online maps adding (xx) to the end of the name (in the onlinemapsources.xml file). This is how the new version organize the new maps.



orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: valleyofdawn on April 30, 2014, 10:59:40 PM
Sorry, I didn't quite get it.

So if I want a map called "OpenCycleMap" to be in a folder called "OSM"

then the header in the onlinemapsources.xml file should be what?

"OpenCycleMapxxOSM"?

Thanks
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: GeMe on May 01, 2014, 09:40:25 AM
Hola Orux,



Como puedo comprobar si el orux está exportando correctamente a gpx en la beta 5.5.19.



Es que cuando lo habro en el compegps, me está poniendo puntos en lugares extraños o repitiendo puntos en otros sitios.



A lo mejor, también puede ser que al hacer la modificación masiva de los waypoints y añadirlos al track y luego exportarlo a GPX, algún punto, no esté exportándose correctamente...



Voy a investigar un poco más y te digo.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: orux on May 01, 2014, 12:53:59 PM
Quote from: "valleyofdawn"Sorry, I didn't quite get it.

So if I want a map called "OpenCycleMap" to be in a folder called "OSM"

then the header in the onlinemapsources.xml file should be what?

"OpenCycleMapxxOSM"?

Thanks


Examples:



<onlinemapsource uid="12">

      <name>Statkart Toporaster 2 (NO)</name>

...



<onlinemapsource uid="17">

      <name>Hike and Bike (DE)</name>

...





<onlinemapsource uid="xx">

      <name>OpenCycleMapxx (OSM)</name>

...





refresh the map list after the changes.





orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: orux on May 01, 2014, 12:55:54 PM
Quote from: "GeMe"Hola Orux,



Como puedo comprobar si el orux está exportando correctamente a gpx en la beta 5.5.19.



Es que cuando lo habro en el compegps, me está poniendo puntos en lugares extraños o repitiendo puntos en otros sitios.



A lo mejor, también puede ser que al hacer la modificación masiva de los waypoints y añadirlos al track y luego exportarlo a GPX, algún punto, no esté exportándose correctamente...



Voy a investigar un poco más y te digo.




Si abres el gpx con google earth, por ejemplo, y los wpts no aparecen en el mismo sitio que en OruxMaps, algo malo está pasando;





orux
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.19!
Post by: valleyofdawn on May 01, 2014, 01:10:36 PM
OK, the folders are working - thanks.

It seems to only work with capital letters and it includes the parentheses in the folder name when in appears in the list.

Also the folder name appears again in the map name, which is redundant.



Another idea would be to work with tags rather than folders.

That way, for instance,  all satellite maps can be grouped together, and all Google maps can be grouped together, and the Google Earth map would be found in both groups.
Title: Re: New BETA 5.5.17!
Post by: flohupfer on October 20, 2014, 12:23:22 PM
Hi Orux,



can this Feature (Center and Zoom on double tap) be disabled in some menue (I did not find any means)?

I use Oruxmaps in a protective cover, so the touch sensitivity is not optimal. This leads to unintended double taps instead of Scrolling, which is very annoying.


Quote from: "orux"
Quote from: "Legend"
Quote from: "goosiebn"Is it intentional that double tap zoom only zooms digitally?

I just tested this and it happens only if the "only digital zoom" is enabled for the on screen buttons


you are right,



this gesture is equal to on screen buttons, relative to zoom,



orux
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