I agree: having two places to change the appearance of tracks is confusing, and Configure map – Tracks – Appearance now seems obsolete.
It looks to me like UI is moving toward putting all GPX controls in My places - Tracks, which is a good thing.. The developers just need to complete the move. On Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 1:07:36 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > Hello Herwig and all, > > Thanks for this hint. I had not seen or tried under ‘My Places – Tracks – > Appearance’, but continued to use the old path ‘Configure map – Tracks’ > (with quite limited functionality). ‘My Places – Tracks’ is new from rel. > 3.8 <https://osmand.net/blog/osmand-3-8-released>. > > For me, changing line width using the Thin Medium Bold buttons works fine, > no need to use Custom. > > It looks like with rel. 3.8 the new ‘My Places – Tracks – Appearance’ was > brought in and the old ‘Configure map – Tracks – Appearance’ forgotten. > > The old one is neither turned off nor linked to the new one. It still has > some functionality and effect on tracks, but quite weird (if I copy a new > track to folder files/tracks, then I can still change color with the old > Appearance, but not line width any more). > > *This is inconsistent and confusing.* I believe this should be changed. *Any > moderator or similar who can comment on this?* Depending on comment I > could raise an issue in Github for this. > > Herwig Dierckx schrieb am Dienstag, 12. Januar 2021 um 18:42:14 UTC+1: > >> Hello >> >> I have the same issue. I found a temporary work-around : >> >> - Look for your track under My Places - Tracks. >> - Below the button "Show on map" , there's a color-palette for >> Appearance. >> - Scrolling down you can select the color and the width, but changing >> from Thin to Bold , doesn't have any effect. >> - Only if you select Custom and use the slider underneath, you can >> change the width. >> >> It's quite cumbersome, but otherwise it's indeed not useable on a >> bike-ride. >> >> Good luck >> Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 om 01:35:18 UTC+1 schreef [email protected]: >> >>> Currently OsmAnd+ 3.8.4 is installed. Already a few months, I suspect >>> after a previous update, choosing the width for GPX tracks does not show an >>> effect any more (and the track displays quite thin). >>> >>> This used to be working fine earlier in 2020. Just in case, I tried to >>> uninstall and reinstall the app, but no change. Same when I tried new >>> installation of OsmAnd on another phone. >>> >>> See the 4 screens attached: Setting for Tracks – Appearance and how the >>> track displays, both for Bold and Thin. >>> >>> No difference in width visible. >>> >>> As I said, this was working fine earlier. I have been using this mainly >>> on bicycle tours, with the phone mounted to the handlebar. As thin as the >>> track is now, with some sunlight present I cannot see anything. >>> >>> Please advise >>> >>> [image: Screenshot_2021-01-12-00-02-28-App bold.png][image: >>> Screenshot_2021-01-12-00-02-56-Map bold.png][image: >>> Screenshot_2021-01-12-00-03-41-App thin.png][image: >>> Screenshot_2021-01-12-00-04-14-Map thin.png] >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OsmAnd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/49cd059b-2f73-49b6-8f7c-d2517eae4a17n%40googlegroups.com.
