some changes to default and "relocate to GPS" request
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 6:42 pm
Although I prefer one request - one topic rule, proposed changes are mostly about defaults, so just one code change.
Please add Hermannskogel datum for Ozi maps. We discussed this before. I'm perfectly fine with present solution (more than that, thanks a lot!), but I'm trying to convince more people to use AQ as a program that "just works". It's irrelevant how to properly call that datum, neither Hermannskogel or MGI 1901 is used in practice (we just call it Gaus Kruger), but OziExplorer call it only Hermannskogel. At the present user must either change map file to write MGI 1901 instead of Hermannskogel or put cs file in \Android\data\psyberia.alpinequest.full\files\datastore\cs\. Although both ways work, it is far from user friendly. "Just" put somewhere in code Hermannskogel=MGI 1901 or [quick and dirty solution ] put hermannskogel.cs in distribution file.
Change default to write images extensions to GPX. I know about user_conf item for this and already use that, but for me it's more natural to be default, since most newer programs are aware about images path in GPX.
And now real wish, hopefully very simple to add:
Option to move waypoint location to the current GPS position, just like in Garmin handhelds or in Locus. At the present way to accomplish this is unintuitive and very prone to errors: you can move waypoints coordinates to screen center, and this works, but very often users move screen center away from current gps position. I personally failed to write correct position of important waypoint just because of this.
Please add Hermannskogel datum for Ozi maps. We discussed this before. I'm perfectly fine with present solution (more than that, thanks a lot!), but I'm trying to convince more people to use AQ as a program that "just works". It's irrelevant how to properly call that datum, neither Hermannskogel or MGI 1901 is used in practice (we just call it Gaus Kruger), but OziExplorer call it only Hermannskogel. At the present user must either change map file to write MGI 1901 instead of Hermannskogel or put cs file in \Android\data\psyberia.alpinequest.full\files\datastore\cs\. Although both ways work, it is far from user friendly. "Just" put somewhere in code Hermannskogel=MGI 1901 or [quick and dirty solution ] put hermannskogel.cs in distribution file.
Change default to write images extensions to GPX. I know about user_conf item for this and already use that, but for me it's more natural to be default, since most newer programs are aware about images path in GPX.
And now real wish, hopefully very simple to add:
Option to move waypoint location to the current GPS position, just like in Garmin handhelds or in Locus. At the present way to accomplish this is unintuitive and very prone to errors: you can move waypoints coordinates to screen center, and this works, but very often users move screen center away from current gps position. I personally failed to write correct position of important waypoint just because of this.