Despite the grim and sad situation with the global pandemic, it's everywhere around us again. In the streets, shopping malls, TV, e-shops... Xmas trees, glittering decorations, carols, Santas with face masks...

And above all - Christmas sales! As you know, Locus has always celebrated this feast too. This year we won't make an exception. Similarly to the last year we decided to offer you

Christmas sale -50% on all LoMaps and Compass maps!

Beginning on 21st of December 2020 until 1st of January 2021 you can download all map packages of these providers from Locus Store for half the price. And what can you get?

LoMaps - accuracy and wide choice of zooms all over the world

LoMaps are OSM based vector maps of the whole World. Optimized and maintained by our own map experts. You can change their content according to your activity - hiking or biking, skiing, traveling a city and driving a car. LoMaps can be zoomed to a great detail of 1:2.500 scale, contain a vast database of dynamic points of interest, address database and elevation data necessary for proper route planning. LoMaps are fully offline and are available in packages by countries, states or smaller regions.

• Download directly to Locus >> (open in your mobile phone web browser)

Compass - traditional hiking maps of the most attractive parts of Poland

This Polish cartography producer provides its maps exclusively in Locus. Maps of the most attractive tourist areas in Poland and partly in Western Ukraine contain precise, terrain-proved rendering with rich tourist content - hiking, cycling, horse-riding paths and trails, architectural and natural landmarks. Maps are available in offline packages and are zoomable to 1:50.000 scale.

• Download directly to Locus >> (open in your mobile phone web browser)

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Wesołych Świąt!

Článek Enjoy your Christmas with LoMaps and Compass maps for half the price! se nejdříve objevil na Locus Map - mobile outdoor navigation app.

It's everywhere around us again. In the streets, shopping malls, TV, e-shops... Xmas trees, glittering decorations, carols, hordes of Santas...

And above all - Christmas sales! As you know very well, Locus has always celebrated this feast too. This year we won't make an exception. The same way as in the last year, we decided with some of our map partners to offer

Christmas sale -50% on all LoMaps, SHOCart and Compass maps!

Beginning on 20th of December 2019 to the last day of this year on 31/12 you can download all map packages of these providers from Locus Store. And what can you get?

LoMaps - accuracy and wide choice of zooms all over the world

LoMaps are OSM based vector maps of the whole World. Optimized and maintained by our own map experts. You can change their content according to your activity - hiking or biking, skiing, traveling a city and driving a car. LoMaps can be zoomed to a great detail of 1:2.500 scale, contain a vast database of dynamic points of interest, address database and elevation data necessary for proper route planning. LoMaps are fully offline and are available in packages by countries, states or smaller regions.

• Download directly to Locus >> (open in your mobile phone web browser)

SHOCart - the best hiking and biking maps of Czechia and Slovakia

SHOCart has been a leading Czech cartography publisher for more than 25 years. Maps, zoomable to 1:50.000 scale, show marked hiking routes, biking routes as well as other hiking and tourist infrastructure (tourist huts, camps, sights, cableways, tourist information centers, ...). Bike maps contain also classification of surfaces and a dense network of recommended biking routes virtually ridden on by riders-mappers. Discounted maps are available for downloading of freely selected areas and in readymade packages.

Download directly to Locus:

• SHOCart hiking >> (open in your mobile phone web browser)
• SHOCart biking >> (open in your mobile phone web browser)

Compass - traditional hiking maps of the most attractive parts of Poland

This Polish cartography producer provides itsmaps exclusively in Locus. Maps of the most attractive tourist areas in Poland and partly in Western Ukraine contain precise, terrain-proved rendering with rich tourist content - hiking, cycling, horse-riding paths and trails, architectural and natural landmarks. Maps are available in offline packages and are zoomable to 1:50.000 scale.

• Download directly to Locus >> (open in your mobile phone web browser)

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Článek Enjoy your Christmas with LoMaps, SHOCart and Compass maps for half the price! se nejdříve objevil na Locus Map - mobile outdoor navigation app.

Old-new map?

What? The title is boasting that all is just new! Yes and no, the truth is somewhere in between. We're talking about maps of renowned Czech publisher SHOCart that Locusers have known for ages, especially their awesome biking maps with surface classification and recommended bike routes. New is our contract with the publisher, owned by traditional Austrian publishing house Freytag-Berndt.

[caption id="attachment_9160" align="aligncenter" width="800"] SHOCart bikemap[/caption]

And what comes from the new agreement? All hiking and biking maps of SHOCart are frequently updated, we're linked directly to the publisher servers. What's more, we've got updated hiking maps of almost whole Europe by Freytag-Berndt. The worse news is that nothing of these data is free of charge:

• Online SHOCart hiking and biking maps of the Czech and Slovak republics, online hiking maps of Europe by Freytag-Berndt - you can subscribe the access to them either directly from the map manager or in Locus Store. The price is 320 LoCoins for a month or 1600 LoCoins for a year.
• Offline SHOCart hiking and biking maps of the Czech and Slovak republics, online hiking maps of Europe by Freytag-Berndt - you can define your own map crop, select map zooms and purchase the map tiles in a bundle for offline use. The price is 8 LoCoins for 100 tiles.
• Offline ready-made packets of biking or hiking maps of Czech and Slovak republics by SHOCart - they contain approximately identical map crops as the paper editions of the publisher, all in three zooms up to 1:50 000. The price is single for all packets - 230 LoCoins.

[caption id="attachment_9161" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Freytag-Berndt map, cycling paths in Antwerpen surrounds[/caption]

We wish you a lot of hiking/biking pleasure with these old-new maps and we sincerely hope you'll get used to their new terms of sales.

Simplified online map download

We reworked download from the scratch. It's much clearer and more intuitive now - a piece of cake even for the greenest Locus beginners. We threw away nothing, all your favourite settings and options are there, hidden behind magic buttons "Show advanced options".

Estimated time of travel for your trip planning

Locus offers another improvement for planning of your hiking, biking or family trips. We developed an algorithm that can calculate estimated time spent on your trip, including your snack breaks. It's based on the distance, elevation gain and selected type of your trip or workout activity. The feature can be found in the tool menu of a route:

You can select among three walking profiles, nine (!) cycling and two cross-country skiing profiles. We're sure you'll always find one that suits you best. We suppose to hear many useful ideas how to fine-tune these profiles from you and we are, as usual, ready:).

Minor changes and advanced gadgets

And as usual, the new version brings loads of minor adjustments and fixes and also improvements of more advanced features for our geeky users - at random - new presets for Quick WWW bookmark feature, support of BBox tags in the same feature, option to stop Live tracking directly from the notification bar, improved display of breaks and rests in track charts or a new system of work with geocaching waypoints.

Článek New Locus, new maps, new features se nejdříve objevil na Locus Map - mobile outdoor navigation app.