AlpineQuest & OfflineMaps

Hi.
As far as I understand, a new beta 2.3.0 r7480 has now been released. Colleagues from 4pda are already using it, but I still don’t have it - the Market says nothing. What could be the problem?

Hi Alex,
Yes right now this beta has only been released for some users that have the complete version.
I have been very slow to publish it because there have been a lot of technical changes (I changed the names of technical folders including where the maps are stored, so I wanted to be very careful on how the update process would work).
Right now a new beta version is ready, with a more important visible change (a new menu when you select a displayed item), so I'll stop releasing the current one (2.3.0 r7480) and start releasing the new one.
So you should have this new one in a few days.

Very strange, but I still have not received another beta.

Sorry. I've got it right now.

Hi, Francois.
I got the beta, thanks a lot.
Can you comment on a few points?

• Placemarks are now restored after the map view is displayed in order to speed up the application startup
• Placemarks are now displayed independently per workspaces
• Added ability to display quadrant bearings - is it for navigation, that is, for movement on water?
• Built-in maps are now displayed in workspaces

Hi Alex,

• Placemarks are now restored after the map view is displayed in order to speed up the application startup

Before, displayed placemarks (waypoints, routes, sets, etc) were loaded during the startup screen of the app.
Now, first the map view is displayed without placemarks, then the app loads the placemarks and display them when they are loaded.
It make the map view appear faster when you start the app if you have a lot of displayed items.

• Placemarks are now displayed independently per workspaces

When you create a new workspace, all displayed placemarks are removed. When you go back to the previous workspace, they are restored as before.
This way you can have different displayed items in different workspaces.

• Added ability to display quadrant bearings

It's a new way to display direction. Go in the app settings, select "Bearing units" and "Quadrants".
Instead of a heading of "175°", the app will displayed "S 5° E"

• Built-in maps are now displayed in workspaces

When you create a new workspace, before it was empty of maps (only elevations maps), now builtin maps are added (OSM, Google, Bing, and USGS maps).

Understood, thank you very much.
Perhaps later I will have a small comment on the translation into Russian of the term quadrant bearings.

Hi, François. Is it possible to do something with the text size? Looks very small.

Alex, I think this is because the title text in the Russian translation is very long.
Would it be possible to find a smaller text or an abbreviation for that?

Hi
I think this is unlikely. English terms are sometimes several characters shorter than Russian ones. I can't find the right abbreviations, and I don't have any.

Hi.
Is it possible to make an additional item Settings here to select the buttons that are displayed on the screen?
It would be convenient to assign or change the necessary buttons.

Hi Alex,
Yes absolutely, that would be great.
I'm not sure I'll have time before the nexyt update, but it will be for the next one.

As usual the time passes so quickly and I don't find the time to add everything planned...
So I add this suggestion in the waiting features list not to forget it.