Search

Default search in Locus Map is Google powered online search of addresses. Nevertheless, Locus offers more searching methods and databases (tap in the top bar):

• Offline addresses - part of LoMaps
• Move to… - search a defined position (e.g. coordinates, projection…)
• Contact - search the phone contacts' addresses
• Search in points - searching in all locally stored user points of interest
• Search in tracks - searching in all locally stored tracks and routes
• Co-apps search - search provided by installed 3rd party applications, e.g. Geocaching4Locus
• Search others - search in external databases - Wikipedia, What3words, Geonames or GNS

Locus remembers your last used method and offers it directly when you tap Search next time.

Locus uses Android default Google address search but also GraphHopper and Bing databases are available.

• Search text - insert address (or part of an address) here. Then tap the blue button.
• Search around location - check to optimize the search result according to your location
• Source for online address search - select search engine here - Google, Graphopper, Bing

Search results are displayed in a list ordered by the distance from your position. If there is a single result, it is shown directly on map.

1. select country (LoMap)
   
   
2. start typing name of the city, Locus offers results, select the right one.
   
   
3. start typing name of the street, Locus offers results, select the right one
   
   
4. Locus unfolds a list of all house numbers available on the street. Either choose the desired number or type numbers to refine the search results
   
   

Shifts the cursor on a defined position on map. You can define the position by a selection of methods:
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• Points - move cursor at a selected point of interest in Points manager
• Coordinates - move cursor on entered GPS coordinates
• Projection - define start point, distance and azimuth of the projected point
• Clipboard - move cursor on a position stored in your clipboard, be it an address, a place name or coordinates

For other options of searching a new location tap button. Here you can set the basic search modules and also use special ones - via Location selector:

Recently used/viewed locations, points, places etc. are stored in this tab for future use.

With this add-on you can display postal addresses of your contacts on a map. Locus Map reads your contact list, filters items with attached addresses and displays them in a table. Select or search which contact to display on a map. In case a contact has two addresses, both are displayed.

Use this search to find points in your own storage.
By default this search returns the nearest points located around your current position - just tap .

To modify your search, add more parameters:

• Search title - (optional) fultext search in the points titles
• Search also in descriptions - fultext search in all texts related to the point - names, description, geocaching listings etc. - quite a slow method if you have a lot of POIs stored.
• Points around - defines center of searching - current GPS location is default, can be changed by Location selector.
• Folder - specifies point folders to be searched. By default Locus searches All folders but you can select a particular one:
  

Results are sorted by the distance from the user's location in a table similar to Points manager - here you can select points to display on map, invert selection etc.

Use this search to find routes/tracks in your own storage.

By default this search returns the nearest routes/tracks passing by your current position - just tap .

• Search title - (optional) fultext search in the routes/tracks titles
• Search also in descriptions - fultext search in all texts related to the route/track - quite a slow method if you have a lot of routes/tracks stored.
• Tracks around - defines center of searching - current GPS location is default, can be changed by Location selector.
• Folder - specifies route/track folders to be searched. By default Locus searches All folders but you can select a particular one:
  

Results are sorted by the distance from the user's location in a table similar to Tracks manager and it is possible to work with it in the same way - select tracks to display on map, invert selection etc.

Locus Map can coooperate with many external applications and their own online/offline databases. Here it is possible to start search in them directly without need to switch the cooperating application directly from the phone/tablet application menu.

A typical example can be search of nearest geocaches by the Geocaching4Locus.

Search in external databases - Wikipedia, What3words and GeoNames/GNS.

Wikipedia is a free-access, free content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Those who can access the site and follow its rules can edit most of its articles. Wikipedia is ranked among the ten most popular websites and constitutes the Internet's largest and most popular general reference work.

Locus Map can search in its entries that are geo-tagged, i.e. have defined location:

• Language - select language of searched entries
• Location - define place around which to search - use map cursor position or choose location by Location selector.

The results are listed in a table of points. They can be displayed on map or imported for later use. Their details contain URL to the related Wikipedia article.

Both services contain huge databases of points of interest and interesting places:

• GeoNames- geographical database covering all countries and containing over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.
• NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS)- the geographic names in this database are provided for the guidance of and use by the Federal Government of United States and for the information of the general public. It contains over 5 million features and 8 million feature names. Databases are updated monthly so the information in it is quite fresh.

Locus Map handles both databases in one dialog:

• Search - type a name or keyword of your search
• Offline search - check this option if you have downloaded some GeoNames or GNS databases to your device. Otherwise Locus Map searches online.