- An old Bug in Mapsforge forced us to transform access=no to access=acc_no. This means that have to update your Themes, if you would like to have access restrictions rendered in the maps
- There are new features in the Maps and Themes like kissing_gates and turnstiles
- Especially for users of the New Zealand map we modified the rendering of water multipolygons (lake, riverbank, reservoir, aso). Up to now wrong tagged multipolys resulted in flooded areas along lakes and rivers. This issue occours in almost every MP in New Zealand caused by the automated LINZ import of Goverment data. As said, this should be resolved with the updated maps/themes
We strongly recommend to update the themes by using the Quick-Installation:
For Elevate/Elements Themes of Tobias:
https://www.openandromaps.org/en/legend/elevate-mountain-hike-theme
For the andromaps_## themes:
https://www.openandromaps.org/en/legend/andromaps_hc_en
A Theme in OS-Landranger style can be found here – (c) John Percy:
https://www.openandromaps.org/en/oam-forums/topic/voluntary-uk
The new maps will be finally available with the updated maps of Europe and Germany on 11/12th of August.2015
We wish you a pleasant summer,
Tobias & Christian
With the new Locus version 3.9.1 the support for switchable overlays, as in other apps with mapsforge 0.5, has been added. Therefore Elevate 3.0.2 has been released to make use of this feature also in Locus. Now all symbols, but also other, until now not available, overlays can be switched on or off.
This is how it works with Locus 3.9.1:
- install the new Elevate version
- then select Elevate as usual with the theme switcher
- then use the theme switcher again, select Elevate again – now an additional menu shows up in which you can select the map style (hiking, cycling or city) and the overlays
Starting with Locus 3.9.2 after selecting the theme a menu shows up that lets you choose the map style and overlays.
After some development time with several test version in the forum Elevate 3.0 has been released today. Please take notice that this version can only used with apps that are compatible with mapsforge 0.5, e.g. OruxMaps 6.4beta and later, Cruiser and Atlas.
As many apps aren’t (e.g. Locus, the current OruxMaps playstore version 6.0.7) I also added a legacy version Elevate 2.5 which has many of the improvements of Elevate 0.3, as far as possible.
Both versions can be downloaded here.
The big improvements of Elevate 3.0 are:
- Map styles are now integrated in one theme file, this means hiking/cycling/city can now be selected directly, only Elements needs another theme file. The map styles differ more than before.
- Overlays make it possible to switch on or off of different elements, e.g. captions, symbols, protected areas etc.
- Additional overlays are showing now better visible and emphasized hiking or cycling routes or are a public transport network is shown.
- Priorities make it possible that settlement names and important symbols are shown much more reliably.
- A version with SVG-symbols is now scalable for all kinds of devices. The size variants are now only necessary because the glow of symbols there makes them easier to see.
- Elements now supports all map styles as in Elevate with hiking, city or cycling. The difference is that everything is shown as soon it is contained in the map data.
Additionally many improvements and new map elements have been added, in Elevate 3.0 as well as in Elevate 2.5:
- Cycling: cycleways are now emphasized and surface information is shown.
- Cycling: paths and footways with cycling=yes are now rendered like cycleways.
- Accompanying cycle lanes/tracks on roads are now shown.
- Hiking/city: cycleways with foot=yes are now rendered like footways.
- New settlement names like capitals, farms and quarters are now shown.
- And many more smaller improvements and additions.
Here are some comparison and example pictures. Please use the forum for feedback.
PS – corrections for the translations in the map style menus are very welcome
There is a new version of the Elevate map themes 2.4.
It’s a major update for general map appearance. The goal was to make the map a bit calmer for all those elements which are not so important for hiking/cycling etc. So the colors for inhabited areas, buildings, airports, borders etc. have been toned down. Highway rendering has been overhauled, as well as place names, so that villages and hamlets are easier to distinguish from towns and cities. Many other changes were made to optimize the appearance.
A second major change is the improvements of routes. Local hiking routes now have a separate color (yellow), so it’s easier to follow a regional/local route now. Route refs are more visible.
In the OruxMaps versions the distance of captions to symbols are now larger, so it is possible to use larger variations of the theme on devices with less dpi. Or to resize captions a bit without losing elevation information.
Those and more changes can be found as always in the changelog.
To illustrate the changes in map appearance I attached some comparisons to Elevate 2.3
All downloads can be found as usual on the Elevate theme page, quick installation is highly recommended.
Here are some comparisons to Elevate 2.3:
I’m glad about feedback, for example in the forum here.
News for smaller Elevate updates can always be found here.
Best regards,
Tobias