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Hi,



could it be possible to make a connection to RuviTag BLE Sensor https://ruuvi.com/ruuvitag-specs">//https://ruuvi.com/ruuvitag-specs in order to get air pressure corrected altitude values?

It is an open source project https://github.com/ruuvi">//https://github.com/ruuvi

Hi Orux,



I am using Oruxmaps for a long time and I really like it for outdoor activities.



I often found that new users are unable to cope with the amount of options and menu settings. It really could help if there were simple mode switches (easy, normal, expert) to hide a lot of the menus. As soon as they get used to it, they could switch from easy to normal.



With the help of an "expert" to prepare the initial installation including map installation, they could use it with the reduced functionality.

Hi Orux,



i am using oruxmaps since a couple of years and every now and then I invite cycling/hiking friends to this great program. Most of them are just ordinary smartphone users and are overwhelmed by the huge amount of options and menus.

It would be very useful to implement a ui profile selection (Beginner/Normal/Expert) with disabled menu/settings options in the Beginners profile where a beginner just uses this as a map viewer with track recording and an expert has access to all options.



As soon as they get used to the program they could switch to a more advanced view of this program.



A most flexible solution could read the visibility configuration from an xml settings file, so that different Beginner profiles could be supplied by other users.

 



Thanks for your great program

For all the new feature that use 'OruxMaps servers', can I key in a custom hostname / URL, and will the protocols be documented?



I am asking because I am only interested in the features, not the hosted service. In other words, all those features are really interesting to me, but only in a self-hosted environment.



So, please please pleeeease make the hostname/URL a configurable setting. It should be no effort at all to implement that.



Best regards,

Martijn.

I also would like to see some support for self-hosted location service. A very interesting approach is using an MQTT service  https://github.com/mqtt/mqtt.github.io/wiki/MQTT%20Protocol">//https://github.com/mqtt/mqtt.github.io/wiki/MQTT%20Protocol, where an open source implementation is available:  http://mosquitto.org/">//http://mosquitto.org/.



'Owntracks' is already an application using this type of location publication by sending flexible JSON strings to a MQTT service https://github.com/owntracks/owntracks/wiki/JSON">//https://github.com/owntracks/owntracks/wiki/JSON



Would be nice to see this intefrated into oruxmaps.