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Thanks for the information.  I've been busy and haven't had a chance to look at the transparency for the Overlay yet.

What I mainly use the Mapsforge maps for is in a Composite Map where I can have my transparent custom Garmin Off Highway Vehicle vector trail map displayed and also be able to see roads and streets when I get into towns.  I pretty much use this all over the United States for various OHV Trail Systems, just for my own personal use.

What maps is your ExMaps Theme best used with?  It works great with the OpenAndroMaps. I didn't know if you created it for a particular map?

Sometimes I will take a .jpg picture of a paper trail map for a particular location and georeference that .jpg map and use it as a map overlay to navigate by.  I haven't seen a way to change the transparency of the .jpg overlay map so I can view my other map/s underneath the overlay, is this is even possible?  I do quite often use trails/tracks/waypoints as a .gpx or .kml overlay in my custom map/Composite map since that doesn't hide my other maps being displayed.  Is there a way to change the transparency of a .jpg overlay map where you can partially see through it and also view the map underneath the overlay map.

I leave you here the link to a theme created by me, you can translate the page with the browser, it has direct installation for orux.

ExMaps theme

@ Tronpo,  THANK YOU, very much.  I have not used themes before so it took a little for me to get them set up and working.  I have gotten both the Elevate theme and your ExMaps theme working and now my ".map" map files work both as "Composite" maps and as a map by themselves.  All of my maps are back to working as they should now in beta v11.0.2beta4.

Again, thank you for all of your help.

@ Tronpo, Thank you very much for the informative videos and information.  I'll have to play around with the Openandromaps and Elevate theme when I get some more time.

What I have realized, not only do the ".map" map files not display/show up in my Composite maps; but the ".map" map files do not display in any of my maps, even as a map by themselves.  I hope this gets fixed in the release of the next beta version of Oruxmaps. From OpenAndroMaps, I downloaded the USA / South-Mid-oam.osm.map file for the US and it does not display either.

A question, what theme are you using for Mapsforge Maps?

I don't have any Mapsforge themes to select from.  The only 1 listed is "Default mapsforge theme" and it is active.  The "Mapbox Maps" is grayed out.
 
I am doing the same thing you are in your video except for your basemap you are using a .osm file and I am using a .map file.  The .map files is what I am not getting to work any more in Composite maps in the beta version.

Hello, do you have the vtm viewer activated?
If you have activated the vtm viewer, either in the map settings, or in the Mapsforge settings, in both settings at the bottom is the checkbox to check uncheck.
The VTM viewer does not support composite maps.
My Composite Map  are working correctly in the beta.

Best regards.

I use Composite Maps on both my Samsung Galaxy Note 9 phone and also on my Samsung A9+ Tablet and am getting the same results on both with the beta version.  I did check to make sure that VTM map viewer is not activated/checked in Maps/Mapsforge and also in Maps on both devices. Still does not display my Mapforge (street map) as the basemap.  I get a blue screen in place of the Mapforge basemap, but my Garmin type map does appear.

When I am creating the Composite Map and I select the Mapforge Map as my 1st map (basemap) of the 2 maps to create the Composite Map, the Mapforge Map name appears in the upper right corner of the screen as if the Layer has been added but I only see a blue screen with the 2 arrows that form a circular pattern being displayed all over the screen (at all zoom levels), where I used to see the Mapforge street map at this point.  I do see the Mapforge street map displayed, at this point when doing this in the GP version.

Thank you.

Hello, do you have the vtm viewer activated?
If you have activated the vtm viewer, either in the map settings, or in the Mapsforge settings, in both settings at the bottom is the checkbox to check uncheck.
The VTM viewer does not support composite maps.
My Composite Map  are working correctly in the beta.

Best regards.

Thank you for the information and quick reply.  Not sure if I do or not but will definitely check.

It seems there is a problem when making a "Composite" map when using 2 or more "Offline" maps.  The problem I am encountering is that my base-map, a Mapforge Map (.map file), does not get added as a "Layer" when you click on "Add Layer" when creating a Composite Map.  The foreground map a Garmin vector map does get added as a Layer, but when you select the newly created Composite map to display, all you see is the Garmin map with a blue background and the Mapforge Map does not appear at all.  This is something that started happening sometime with beta version 11, not sure which beta 11 version it started with.

The Garmin maps and the Mapforge Maps in question do display correctly as a "Composite Map" in the GP version of Oruxmxaps v10.7.4 GP.  I have tried 4 different Garmin type maps with 4 different Mapforge maps that all do display correctly as Composite Maps in the GP version, and also used to work correctly in the older beta versions prior to the release of beta versions 11, but now none of my Composite Maps display correctly with Mapforge Maps using the newer beta version v.11.0.2beta4.

I have played around with changing several of the map settings to see if that would help and so far nothing has made a difference where the Mapforge map will display when combined as a "Composite Map".  This seems to be a problem just since the new beta 11 versions were released.  The Mapforge Maps will display correctly when they are used as a stand alone map and not as a Composite Map.

Has anyone else experienced this when making a Composite map, using a Mapforge map as 1 of the maps?  Was wondering if I am missing some setting in the settings with the newer v11 beta versions, or if this is a bug in the beta v11 of Oruxmaps?

What I am referring to is that the 1st day that the new beta v11.0.2beta2 was released it immediately started showing the near to stop working message; then when the latest beta v11.0.2beta3 was released it continues to give the same error message on the 1st day of it's release.  This is something new that has never occurred before with prior beta releases (all the way back to the beta v7.4 series of beta releases), until the beta v11.0.2beta2 was released.  It appears that beta versions v11.0.2beta2 and v11.0.2beta3 did not get their expiration dates updated when they were initially released to the public.

Looks like the expiration date for getting the pop-up window about the beta version soon to expire has been updated with the latest beta v11.0.2beta4.  No longer get the soon to expire pop-up with the beta 4 release. 

Thanks Orux/Jose.  Appreciate all the hard work that goes into keeping Oruxmaps going and regularly updating.

Correct, it seems that José has reduced the expiration time.
For me it would be ideal if we could credit the purchase of the GP version in the beta version and remove the expiration of it.
To avoid waiting for an update in the play store, and that the beta It wouldn't be to have a free premium app.

Completely agree.  I would expect that anyone who follows Oruxmaps.org most likely already has the GP version of Oruxmaps and for those that don't follow Orux here online but use it somewhat regularly also have already paid for the GP version, at least the 15-20 individuals in my group have already paid for the GP version.

Well, it is not my case, nor that of other users who are in a group, until last week the expiration message did not jump in beta 3.
And with beta 2 it also took a while before it showed the message
What is true is that in these betas the period of life has been reduced.
Greetings and sorry if I didn't understand you.👍

Ok, Thanks for letting me know.  It seems that the beta versions used to go about 6 months before the expiration notice would appear.  I believe beta v11.0.2beta3 was released on July 9 so if I am understanding correctly what you said, then v11.0.2beta3 went about 1 month for you, before you got the about to expire pop up window.

Hello it is not a mistake, the betas are test versions and have an expiration date.
The official version of Google play does not expire.
The message will continue to appear in the beta version until it is no longer operational.
Until a new beta version.
Beta versions are for testing and reporting.

What I am referring to is that the 1st day that the new beta v11.0.2beta2 was released it immediately started showing the near to stop working message; then when the latest beta v11.0.2beta3 was released it continues to give the same error message on the 1st day of it's release.  This is something new that has never occurred before with prior beta releases (all the way back to the beta v7.4 series of beta releases), until the beta v11.0.2beta2 was released.  It appears that beta versions v11.0.2beta2 and v11.0.2beta3 did not get their expiration dates updated when they were initially released to the public.

I haven't seen where anyone else has posted this issue with the release of the beta v11.0.2beta2 and I still get the same error message after installing the latest beta v11.0.2beta3.  This happens on both my Samsung Galaxy Note 9 phone and on my Samsung A9+ tablet. When I first turn on Orux 11.0.2beta3 I get the popup screen, "This is an old beta version; it is near to stop working! Go to Google Play and check if there is anew version"; and I have to click on Cancel or Accept to make the popup go away. The next time I turn Oruxmaps on I get the same popup every time. This happens on both my phone and tablet every time. 

I believe this popup only starting happening after v11.0.2beta1 had been out for a long time and was updated, but started showing up immediately when v11.0.2beta2 was initially installed soon after it was released, and now continues to happen with the new release of v11.0.2beta3.

Anyone else seeing this?  It did not use to be the norm until a beta version had been out for quite some time.

Is there going to be a new updated beta version from the v.11.0.0beta10version soon?  I keep getting the message that this beta version (v.11.0.0beta10version) is soon to expire and will no longer work.

Problems / changes I've noticed since going to Oruxmaps v11.0.0beta8 from v10.8.0beta3.

1.  When I switched from version v10.8.0beta3 to version v11.0.0beta8 on my Samsung Galaxy Note 9 phone, I now get the following pop up message box when initializing the Orumxmaps app services..., "Please 'Reset map list' in the map selector view to see a report".

2.  I have a lot of maps (42) in my OFFLINE "mapfiles" folder and in one of my sub-folders for OFFLINE maps (Mapsforge Maps) all (16) of my Mapforge maps now do not list all of the map file name for each particular Mapforge map file.  Some file names now only list the first letter of the map file name and some may show all but the last few letters of the map file name. An example of what I am talking about is my "AZ_NM.map", Mapforge Street Map, now only appears with the name as "A mapforge" instead of "AZ_NM mapforge" in the Offline maps folder.  The same file name change has happened to all 16 of my Mapforge maps to varying degrees.

3. Two of my Mapforge maps (...map) no longer appear in the Offline maps when I select "Switch map", but they do show to be in the Mapfiles folder when using a File manager app to view all of the maps in the Mapfiles folder in Oruxmaps.

4.  One other error message I now get is:, "Problems with some maps:  /storage/emulated/0/oruxmaps/mapfiles/OziExplorer     Maps/TX.map-->String index out of range:-2".   What does this, " String index out of range:-2" error message mean and how to correct it?

Any recommendations to correct these 4 above items, or does this seem to be a glitch with the new beta 11 version of Oruxmaps?  Thank you.