Only available with Premium Gold

With Android Auto, you can launch Locus Map from your phone onto the dashboard of a supported vehicle or third-party device—whether it’s a car or a motorcycle. In this case, the app features a customized interface designed for easier and safer use by the driver.

You can display any map you have in Locus Map on your car’s dashboard. Whether it’s our LoMaps in online or offline versions, road maps, hiking maps, satellite maps, or maps from your favorite publisher.

The map is automatically selected based on your phone’s settings, though you can override this setting directly in Android Auto. You can center the map, zoom in and out, and enable or disable rotation. For best results, we recommend choosing the offline version of LoMap. Not only will this ensure that you can see the map while driving, even if you lose signal, but these maps also support rotating place names on the map to match the direction of travel.

The map refresh rate is now determined by the location update frequency. In practice, this means one map refresh per second during active navigation. We are working on ways to make the display smoother.

In navigation mode, Locus Map automatically applies the “Auto” preset and reverts the settings to their original state when navigation ends. So, if you want to customize the automatic map zoom settings based on speed, locate the corresponding “Auto” preset in Locus Map on your mobile phone.

By default, the app automatically switches between light and dark modes based on the lighting conditions provided by the vehicle. If this behavior is undesirable for your use, you can configure it differently. In dark mode, the map is currently rendered as an inversion of the light mode. In some cases, the result may not be ideal. However, we plan to release a dedicated LoMap dark theme in the future.