[closed] Feedback and feature requests
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:27 pm
I discovered AlpineQuest a few months ago and it fits my needs very well and works better than anything else I've tried. So firstly, thanks for building it.
I use it to assist with navigation on long-distance offroad rallies. The most recent event was 6000km through NW Africa, where we had zero internet access. Cached high resolution aerial images let us plan a route through the terrain, and at times even allowed us to find existing tracks.
A few comments or features I'd like to see are:
1) When using "Rotate the map (using GPS)" if you are stationary, the map will keep rotating randomly. This meant if we were stopped and planning a route I had to turn this option off to read the map properly. I assume this is due to very small GPS movements causing a change of heading. Could there be a minimum speed or distance requirement before the map rotates?
2) Again, when using "Rotate the map (using GPS)", could there be an option of having the arrow near the bottom of the screen (20-30% from the bottom), rather than in the middle? When driving I am more interested in what is ahead of us, not what is behind us, and moving the arrow down gives a better view of what's ahead (for a given zoom).
3) I'd make about 10-20 proximity alerts each day (on various waypoints/landmarks). Then delete them the next day. I had to delete them one at a time. It would be really nice if you could delete all proximity alerts, or select several of them and delete in one action.
4) I also just noticed now that adding a proximity alert to a waypoint automatically turned on the "GPS position" option and the map jumped to my current location.
5) I spent a huge amount of time (2 months) downloading map data for offline use. I know AlpineQuest doesn't control the bandwidth of the servers used, but it seemed like downloads were restricted to ca. 6 tiles per second, regardless of server (I tried various different sources) and regardless of tile size (I saw 2-30 kb/tile). Is there a limit on tiles/second? And can anything be done to change this?
6) For large amounts of data, it would be great if the requests for "Select and save an area" could be queued. So once the current request is complete AlpineQuest automatically moved on to the next area that had been selected.
7) Being able to select non-rectangular areas would be great too. I often found that I needed to download large areas I didn't need to get all the areas I wanted.
8) Is it possible to directly import and display Open Street Maps data? Rather than download it tile by tile? This question may show I don't understand how AlpineQuest operates, but the raw OSM data I used for my other GPS filled a few hundred MB, while the OSM tiles I downloaded in AlpineQuest fill 6GB and do not have as much coverage or detail.
Once again, thanks for creating this app and I hope to get more enjoyment from it in future.
Ben
I use it to assist with navigation on long-distance offroad rallies. The most recent event was 6000km through NW Africa, where we had zero internet access. Cached high resolution aerial images let us plan a route through the terrain, and at times even allowed us to find existing tracks.
A few comments or features I'd like to see are:
1) When using "Rotate the map (using GPS)" if you are stationary, the map will keep rotating randomly. This meant if we were stopped and planning a route I had to turn this option off to read the map properly. I assume this is due to very small GPS movements causing a change of heading. Could there be a minimum speed or distance requirement before the map rotates?
2) Again, when using "Rotate the map (using GPS)", could there be an option of having the arrow near the bottom of the screen (20-30% from the bottom), rather than in the middle? When driving I am more interested in what is ahead of us, not what is behind us, and moving the arrow down gives a better view of what's ahead (for a given zoom).
3) I'd make about 10-20 proximity alerts each day (on various waypoints/landmarks). Then delete them the next day. I had to delete them one at a time. It would be really nice if you could delete all proximity alerts, or select several of them and delete in one action.
4) I also just noticed now that adding a proximity alert to a waypoint automatically turned on the "GPS position" option and the map jumped to my current location.
5) I spent a huge amount of time (2 months) downloading map data for offline use. I know AlpineQuest doesn't control the bandwidth of the servers used, but it seemed like downloads were restricted to ca. 6 tiles per second, regardless of server (I tried various different sources) and regardless of tile size (I saw 2-30 kb/tile). Is there a limit on tiles/second? And can anything be done to change this?
6) For large amounts of data, it would be great if the requests for "Select and save an area" could be queued. So once the current request is complete AlpineQuest automatically moved on to the next area that had been selected.
7) Being able to select non-rectangular areas would be great too. I often found that I needed to download large areas I didn't need to get all the areas I wanted.
8) Is it possible to directly import and display Open Street Maps data? Rather than download it tile by tile? This question may show I don't understand how AlpineQuest operates, but the raw OSM data I used for my other GPS filled a few hundred MB, while the OSM tiles I downloaded in AlpineQuest fill 6GB and do not have as much coverage or detail.
Once again, thanks for creating this app and I hope to get more enjoyment from it in future.
Ben