Comments on: New Locus, new maps, new features

By: Locus team

Locus team — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:38:37 +0000

In reply to Ken. Hi Ken, Have a look at your settings > Language&Units > Text-to-speech settings and set preferred TTS engine and language.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 18:06:55 +0000

What happened to my UK english voice? It’s still the system default, but within Locus Pro all I can get is the AMERICAN english. Help. please?

By: Manfred

Manfred — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:07:41 +0000

In reply to Locus team.

Let’s take my assumption: I can produce 100 watt. Then I can drive with my weigth (95 kg person + bike):
In the plan: approx. 20 km/h
Uphill: 6 km/h in case of 6 % slope => 360 m/h.
Downhill: 45 km/h in case of -6 % slope => 2700 m/h.
These are values for easy level.

By the way I have calculated the values with http://www.kreuzotter.de/english/espeed.htm. Here you can easily evaluate the dependency between the different influencing parameter. I have check whether this calculation fits to reality. And I was suprised about the good realation between calculation and reality. I choice MTB with “robust wide touring tire”.

I can no speak for road racer, because I have no idea about their average capabilies. May be fitness studios are a good source for average values from their ergometers. As you can see in my first link: Lance Armstrong needs for 1130 m approx. 40 min. So 1700 m/h uphill should be definitely the upper limit.

Best regards
Manfred

By: Locus team

Locus team — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:47:22 +0000

In reply to Manfred. Thank you Manfred for your observation. What values would you suggest for this profile (we're talking about the "easy" level)? And what for the Road Racer profile?

By: Manfred

Manfred — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:08:11 +0000

The travel time calculation is an interesting feature. I wonder what the parameter mean. For example for cycling: “20km/h, up arrow 1200Vm/h, down arrow 2500 Vm/h”. When I assume:
– “20km/h” means average travel speed -> this fits because that is something less than 100 watt for driving.
– “1200Vm/h” means rate of climbing -> that’s much, because it’s round about 300 watt for climbing in case of 100 kg weight for driver with bike. That is too much for an average driver. (Lance Armstrong produces 470 watt – see http://www.rst.mp-all.de/bergauf.htm)

By: Locus team

Locus team — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:05:52 +0000

In reply to myneur. SHOCart maps on Mapy.cz? Well it used to be a few years ago before Seznam bought PLAN studio company (original producer of SmartMaps) and made them its new map subsidiary. Maybe you mean maps at Cykloserver.cz. Vector app Mapy.cz is free for sure but not with SHOCart maps and btw. would you really swap Locus for Mapy.cz? ;)

By: myneur

myneur — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:38:27 +0000

Or you can access the same SHOCART maps with travel tips and route planning on mapy.cz web or vector app for free, which makes their offer funny.