Locus Map Classic - knowledge base manual:advanced:customization

manual:advanced:customization:actions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-10-23T10:15:04+00:00

Locus Actions This mysterious name hides a very simple way of providing an easy method of downloading data from your own web server to Locus Map (and probably other features will come later). The whole concept is based on XML file that you provide to Locus Map for processing. The XML file describes what to do.

manual:advanced:customization:coloring

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-09-26T18:13:30+00:00

Custom Elevation Coloring ---------- Locus Map currently offers only a few general palettes for elevation coloring. Here is an instruction how to customize the coloring according to your personal needs: * create a new folder in Locus root directory:

manual:advanced:customization:config

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-07T13:58:14+00:00

Custom settings ---------- Expert settings This section is still IN DEVELOPMENT - settings from the Config.cfg file are being moved to a special part of the settings within the app ---------- Settings that are not essential for running the app and overall user experience. Some of these settings were removed from the main settings because of weak usage, some were found redundant and some have a purpose only for advanced Locus users.

manual:advanced:customization:coord

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-09-03T16:42:46+00:00

Custom Coordinate Systems ---------- Basic information * Menu > Settings > Language & Units > Coordinates type More advanced users like surveyors or explorers who want to use Locus Map also for some specific tasks have possibility to use custom coordinate systems for coordinate transformations.

manual:advanced:customization:icons

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-05-04T08:55:27+00:00

Custom Icons ---------- Locus Map enables using custom icons for Points and also Tracks folders. :!: Custom icons are not supported in Livetracking. Once you create or download an icon pack you may simply select folder icons in Folder Add/edit dialog

manual:advanced:customization:navigation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-09-03T14:23:31+00:00

Custom Navigation Voices ---------- It is possible to use custom navigation voices in the Navigation function. This method shows how to convert voice files from TomTom application to the format usable by Locus Map. Get some voice Firstly, you need to have some TomTom voice file. One usable site with a lot of free voices is for example

manual:advanced:customization:online_maps

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-07-19T08:12:03+00:00

Custom Online maps ---------- Basic information * XML file - contains description of Online map providers (more below). Name and path to this file on storage card (or internal memory) is /Locus/mapsOnline/custom/.xml (you can have more than one xml in the folder, Locus Map will add all of them)

manual:advanced:customization:screens

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-09-03T15:58:10+00:00

Custom Screens and Dashboards ---------- Method of creating custom screens requires at least essential knowledge of developing Android and XML files system. Otherwise we recommend to use already created skins. To edit them, use just simple NotePad or any text editing software with XML syntax highlight (for example

manual:advanced:customization:tts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-02-12T11:15:06+00:00

Custom Text-To-Speech ---------- The main reason why we enabled customizing TTS is that TTS engines do not pronounce numbers correctly in some languages. Therefore we created our own system where all texts are stored in text files in usable format prepared for reading. Another advantage of this system is that you can customize the TTS files as you like.