Settings

Guru Maps is available in a ready-to-use state and app settings should be considered as an optional and more advanced way of using the app. Settings let you configure app options, purchase additional features and manage geo data representation.

Vector Maps Settings

Font and Languages

Font size

You can configure Guru Maps to display all text on a vector map at a comfortable font size. To increase, decrease, or change the default font size, go to app Settings > Font and Languages.

Preferred language order

In some regions, objects on the map in addition to local names have names in other languages. A map will show the names on the first language in this list if exists. It may be useful for multilingual countries, such as Belgium where Dutch, French and German share official language status:

Map Features (Points of Interest)

In addition to the basic appearance settings, you can select the objects you wish to display on the vector map. Select only the objects that you want to display to keep the map tidy and uncluttered:

• Banks, ATMs, currency exchanges
• Beauty salons, hairdressers
• Building names and numbers
• Entertainment, arts and culture
• Hospitals, clinics, pharmacy
• Hotels, hostels, campsites
• Monuments, places of worship
• Parking, gas and service stations
• Pistes and ski lifts
• Police, post offices, embassies
• Public transport stops
• Pubs, bars, clubs
• Restaurants, cafes, fast foods
• Shopping malls, supermarkets
• Sport complexes, leisure centres
• Tourist attractions
• Universities, colleges, schools
• Train and metro stations
• Universitites, colleges, schools

Online Maps Settings

Mobile Data Usage

To disable Guru Maps to use your mobile data, go to Settings > Online Maps and turn the "Download via WiFi only" option on.

Map Refresh

To set how often to refresh cached map tiles for online maps, go to Settings > Online Maps. All tiles older than selected time will be downloaded while browsing online.

Cache Info

All loaded map tiles will be automatically saved to your device's storage and can be managed in Settings > Online Maps, so you can delete the tiles you no longer need if you want to free up storage space.

Appearance Settings

The following group of settings is used to configure how the main map looks:

Show Trip Monitor

To hide trip monitor panel from the map view, turn off this option.

Read also: Trip Computer

Show Coordinates

To enable the real-time display of coordinates on the map, turn this option on. If enabled, “crosshairs” will appear in the map’s center with coordinates and zoom level in the selected format.

Show Zoom Buttons

To make visible zoom control buttons on the map, turn this option on. If enabled, plus and minus zoom buttons will appear on the map:

Show Bookmark Name

To display a bookmark name on the map, turn this option on. The bookmark view will change and the name of the bookmark will appear. The bookmark name can be changed to your preference:

Screen Auto-Lock

The screen of your device will be turned off automatically after a specified period of time to save on power. Turn this option off if you want your device not to lock the screen while using the Guru Maps app.

Default Settings

Default track style

Selected style is a default line style for the newly recorded and imported GPS tracks (solid color/speed gradient/altitude gradient):

GPS filtering

Filters will be applied for new and imported tracks.

Accuracy Threshold

Filter by the minimum accuracy of the received points. Points that are on the outside of the filter value will not be displayed in the track.

Distance Threshold

Filter by the minimum distance between points of a recorded track. Points that are closer than the distance specified in the filter will not be displayed in the track.

Read more: Track Details

Default bookmark category

Selected category is a default icon for newly created and imported bookmarks:

Units Format

To set the units system and coordinates format you would like to use within the Guru Maps, go to Settings > Units Format.

Units system

The following units of measure for distance and speed are available to select from:

• km — for kilometres & km/h,
• mi — for miles & mph,
• NM — for nautical miles & kts.

Coordinates format

In Guru Maps you can choose to represent your coordinates in any way you like. The coordinate format you select will be used to display all coordinates within the app. Here is an example of different coordinate formats for New York city follows:

• +40.730598, -73.986580 (DDD.DDDDD)
• 40°43'50.1" N, 73°59'11.6" W (DDD°MM' SS.S")
• 40°43.835' N, 73°59.194' W (DDD°MM.MMM’)
• 40.73060° N, 73.98658° W (DDD.DDDDD°)
• 18TWL 85577 09345 (MGRS)

Navigation Settings

Route options

To personalize your navigationg settings, go to to Settings > Navigation and switch to the right mode (driving, cycling, walking):

Use navigation online

Enable to build the routes online first. If there is no Internet conection, the route will be built using an offline navigation data (if downloaded):

Voice instructions

The default language for voice instructions you hear while navigating a route depends on the language your device is set to use.
To change the language, select one from the Voice Instructions list:

Note: as the App uses text-to-speech (TTS) engine instead of pre-recorded audio, correct pronunciation depends on the TTS engine.

Auto-record track during navigation

Enable "Auto-record track during navigation" option to save the finished routes automatically as GPS tracks to your collections. You can also choose where recorded routes are stored in your collections.

Synchronization

Guru Maps allows you to synchronize all your data to make your collections visible and available through all your devices using your Facebook or Google account.

App uses Facebook/Google login only for authentication, this does not let the Guru Maps post or share your data.

To enable synchronization feature, go to the app Settings > Sync and select the appropriate way to authenticate.

Data Backup

Backing up data is a great way to minimize accidental data loss and restore the most important geodata on your device.

Create backup

Tap Back Up My Collections button on Settings > Data Backup screen to backup the collections within the app.

Note: created backup only includes data from My Collections (bookmarks and GPS tracks), and it doesn't include downloaded and cached tiles.
When the backup finished successfully, you'll see the name of the device along with the date and time the backup was created:

Save backup

Backups are stored on your device and will be removed automatically when the app is removed. To prevent data loss, we recommend saving your backups regularly.

You can use cloud services (Dropbox, OneDrive, Adobe Creative Cloud, Google Drive, etc) to save them.

Restore from a backup

There are several ways to restore your data from a backup:

• Select .gbackup2 file from any file manager installed and choose Guru Maps:

• Select item from your cloud service (e.g. in Dropbox app) and choose Guru Maps

• Move .gbackup2 file to Internal Storage > Guru_backups folder. All .gbackup2 files from this directory will be listed in Guru Maps. Go to Settings > Data Backup and tap preferred backup.

Note: restoring from backup will remove all current bookmarks and GPS tracks in My Collections.

Maps Storage

If your device supporting SD Card memory extension and one of your storages become insufficient you can change default Map Download Storage in Settings > Maps Storage. After selecting one of the available storages all downloaded Maps will be moved to selected one. Maps will be downloaded on the storage with the largest amount of free space by default. If you don’t see Maps Storage Settings your device might not support SD Card memory extension or SD Card is not present.