Main map Feature: mapsforge themes
Themes and theme definition.
The usage of mapsforge maps requires the usage of rendering themes. The elevate theme definition (in the file elevate.xml) contains four themes:
- Hiking/Wandern (includes e.g. hiking routes)
- City/Stadt (includes e.g. shopping infos)
- Cycling/Radfahren (includes e.g. biking routes)
- Mountain bike/Mountainbike (includes e.g. MTB downhill and uphill scales)
Depending on the selected theme the mapsforge map provides different details and different rendering of some aspects.
To select a theme open the themes menu with 
+ 
.
Click on Select theme and select the most suitable theme for your current activity.
The following images illustrates these four themes (in above sequence):
You can adopt each of these themes according to your needs, e.g. in the theme “City” you can switch on the public transport on (check public transport network)
Default theme definition
A theme definition packages consists typically out of one or more xml files, each representing a theme deinition and a subdirectory containing plenty of svg images. There is one version of the Elevate Theme definition (provided by Tobias Kühn) already delivered together with this app.
To see the currently used theme open settings via + 
and
scroll down to the Mapsforge settings section.
Available options can be seen, when you click on the Select theme definition entry.
Download and Installation of theme definition
You can update the elevate theme definition. Download it manually, unzip it and put it into the MGMapViewer/themes/ directory (see also file system structure).
The easier way is to open via + 
the download settings. Select
Download Elevate Theme to open the theme download webpage of openandromaps. Scroll to the Elevate 5 section and select the entry
Standard Karten App entry.
Usage
Now open again the settings via + ,
scroll down to the Mapsforge settings sectionon and click on the Select theme definition entry.
To activate the downloaded theme select the Elevate.xml entry.
After installation you can select the language for the themes (be aware that the scope of
this language selection is only the theme and some multilingual map items).
To do this open again the settings via + ,
scroll down to the Mapsforge settings sectionon and click on
the Multilingual Map Language Selection entry and select the desired language.
