Erase colour – how it works?

[alexlong]

Hi and thanks for AQ and the new 2.1.1 update.
I have found a new feature – Erase colour. Could you please explain how it should work (with accuracy option).
Thanks in advance.

[Psyberia-Support]

Hi Alex,
I'll try to make an online help on this in few days.

Basically, when you display two maps one over the other, you can remove one color from the top, for example a white background.
Long press the top displayed maps from the "Displayed maps" list and select "Erase color". You can then adjust the RGB values of the color.
Note that there is an info-box showing the color of the map at the screen center location, it can help to know the values of the color to erase.

When you click on the settings icon, you can select:
- screen center coordinate: it will automatically set up the color to erase as the color at the screen center;
- accuracy: allows you to specify the precision of the color to erase. For example "1" will only erase the exact color you've selected, while "15" will also erase colors looking like the one you've selected;
- none will disable this erase color on this map (reset).

Hope it helps

[alexlong]

screen center coordinate

I do not see this item, but I see Accuracy and None.
What does Error do here?
I think it's something wrong

[Psyberia-Support]

Hi again,
If you have "error" displayed it means that the application is not able to detect the center screen color. In this case "screen center coordinate" is not displayed in the menu.
I've just published an update with an improved way to detect center color, let's hope this one will work better on your device.

[alexlong]

Thanks, now it works.

[Psyberia-Support]

Good news!

I have create a new help page for this feature: https://www.alpinequest.net/en/help/v2/maps/erase-color

[alexlong]

Thanks!!! Great!
Could you please think about adding an option to save changes in favourite maps and maps sets?
In case if somebody needs to have both Googles – one Google with normal colours and another Google with deleted colours. So far all changes are not saved if you switch to another map.
If yes, you can add a sentence into the help page, a kind of:
In order to save the deleted colour settings of all displayed maps, you can save them in a favorite set.

[Psyberia-Support]

Thanks, I've updated the online help!