Michael Bechtold did an incredible job producing these maps. For each zoom level he used different an multiple sources ensuring best usability by providing a reasonable filesize. Best is that he aggreed to share these maps for free with our community on OpenAndroMaps.
These maps are pixelmaps in sqlite data format plus a special version for Oruxmaps. Pixelmaps are the best choice for general maps cause they load much faster at low zoom levels compared to vectormaps while vectomaps are providing much more detail at high zoom levels for a fraction of the filesize.
The pure sqlite-maps (for Locus and all APPs capable to handle sqlite) are not compressed so you don’t need additional space and time for decompressing while quick-installation on your device.
Hi
The Themeswitcher in the latest version of Oruxmaps has moved to a new location and a new menuitem have been added for fine-tuning of the themes. There are two new how-to videos available on the Quick-Installation Page
As announced earlier the renderthemes made and maintained by Tobias
- Elevate (for urban areas)
- Elements (for wider areas)
are now the default ones for the OpenAndroMaps hike and cycle vectormaps and included in the map-downloads.
The andromaps_## renderthemes are no longer maintained.
However, these themes are still provided for download and quick installation:
Andromaps hike and cycle themes
Andromaps MTB-Theme
Best regards
Christian
The Andromaps map styles won’t be updated as Christian already mentioned, and I want to add bit to that.
With the Release of OruxMaps 6.5.0 in the Google Playstore the long beta phase is finished and now the most common version supports Elevate 3. ist die lange Betaphase beendet und somit unterstützt auch die gängigste Version Elevate 3. If someone still uses Elevate 2 with the latest version of OruxMaps I can only advise to update.
Together with the adapted version for Locus the two most important apps are now running well with Elevat 3, as many others.
Therefore Elevate 2 will only get the most important updates from now on and at some point won’t be updated at all. The posibilities of Elevate 2 are pretty exhausted anyway. Elevate 2 will be kept available as well as the Andromaps map styles.
The recommended and regularly updated map style is Elevate 3. Accordingly I adjusted the map key and thinned it out a bit.