Biker map theme 5 #656
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@MotoUKRider Thanks for the suggestion. It would be a copy of the Motorider xml file with only different colors, right? I am still not sure if we need another theme in Cruiser? |
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The left picture is better anyway, better contrast. |
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The current theme is perfectly adequate for me personally. Based on the above comparison, I don't think the increased maintenance costs are justified. Just my 2 cents. |
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@MotoUKRider Also I suppose you mean a light theme? |
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While I really liked the Biker theme in Cruiser 4 (still use it on my productive smartphone on the bike) and would appreciate it a lot if it was available for Cruiser 5 again, I understand that it should be well considered in terms of (maintenance) effort. |
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...and we're back. Was hoping for a few more users from the woodwork, but it looks like 2 against, and 1 for it - so following some private feedback from @devemux86 the Biker Theme ZIP is in the opening post at the top of this thread. The basic changes are colour tweaks to the land+roads (more OSM-like) with simple road labelling (no fancy outlines). The rest of the theme, in terms of "rules" and Layers works exactly the same as Cruiser's "default". Therefore, the larger City/Town/Village fonts are not replicated. Of course, if you prefer the white background then you can change the Incidentally, I use Cx File Explorer to copy files between Desktop and Phone (Samsung S20) - it can connect to a Windoze shared drive and even has a "recent" list so navigating to a location 83 folders deep is a single button press 🤡 The USB-C socket gets a break too! |
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This is why I still find the "More road details" layer confusing and prefer not to have it. We need to have a theme with the best global sane appearance. My remark was that by changing some road captions to path texts, we can have less ref labels filling the map. |
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@devemux86 The rationale behind "More road details" was allowing you to follow the road labels when planning, and offers the option of seeing them without having to zoom in+out too much. As evidence, I offer GoogleMaps vs 2009 - It was better back in my day!
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@MotoUKRider Do you mean you prefer the left image? A middle view would be better, as the left image is very empty of road information, |
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@devemux86 No, I think it's overly green and terribly basic. It looks like they've even put chlorine in the north sea, too. That said, these days it's not really a map for looking at in terms of pretty colours - it's for looking-up a business and doing that tediously efficient PointA-to-PointB navigation that normal people like 🤣 |
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Yes, the current Google theme is simply horrid. Was definitely better in the past! |
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You can add the Chinese layer names from the Motorider theme. |
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@devemux86 Thanks - now updated the ZIP in the top post 🔧 |
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There have been some requests for the "Biker" theme to return, which would be a Mapsforge theme written for Cruiser v5. Some efforts were previously made, and it was decided that the "default" day+night themes needed to reach a point where map/object behaviour was as good as it can be before we went in 3 directions. Probably a wise move!
Some of you prefer the OSM-esq colour scheme and of course Biker was the starting block for my original "MotoRider" theme in the v4 VTM era. If there is interest, I will replicate the original styling/fonts before placing it in this thread for tests.
As of 18th Dec '24, the map looks like this:
"Biker" Theme ZIP : Revision 7, updates to match current Light/Dark theme
biker-theme.zip
If you need to know how to display an external theme, please see this post.
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