Feature improvement: Small enhancements for simplifying route editing
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2019 4:35 pm
Thank you for your wonderful work on this piece of software that manages a very good balance between features and useage simplicity!
Yet, upon extensive real-life use, I think there are a few tweaks that could greatly enhance editing of route waypoints, which could certainly be easily implemented without requiring any major rework of the software and interface.
1. Currently, in Edit Points mode, there are two buttons at the screen bottom: "Waypoint" and "Delete". I would like a third button to be added: "Edit Here", which moves the editing point to the segment nearest to the cursor (as done currently by clicking on the route and select the "Insert Here" popup, which is a cumbersome procedure given the number of times this is used). This change would make extensive route tweaking and editing way more practical.
2. In Edit Points mode, when pressing "Delete", it is unclear which of the two points is going to be deleted. Actually this seems to depend on the route orientation, independently to the position of the cursor. It would be nice that the point *nearest* to the cursor gets deleted. It would be also nice to have a small visual highlight on that point to lift any ambiguity.
3. In Edit Points mode, when pressing "Waypoint" for inserting a point in a segment, it would be nice that the *longest* segment adjacent to the inserted point then becomes the currently edited segment. This is, in my opinion, the most natural behavior expected when inserting multiple points for refining a route, regardless to the route orientation. (And use (1) if necessary).
One purpose of (2) and (3) is to make the interface behavior totally independent from the route orientation.
4. Why not add a "Move" button which, instead of deleting a point, moves it to the current cursor position? Definitely useful for correcting a misplaced point in the route. Or, if (2) and (3) are implemented correctly, One could just press successively "Delete" and "Waypoint" to get the same result.
Thanks!
Yet, upon extensive real-life use, I think there are a few tweaks that could greatly enhance editing of route waypoints, which could certainly be easily implemented without requiring any major rework of the software and interface.
1. Currently, in Edit Points mode, there are two buttons at the screen bottom: "Waypoint" and "Delete". I would like a third button to be added: "Edit Here", which moves the editing point to the segment nearest to the cursor (as done currently by clicking on the route and select the "Insert Here" popup, which is a cumbersome procedure given the number of times this is used). This change would make extensive route tweaking and editing way more practical.
2. In Edit Points mode, when pressing "Delete", it is unclear which of the two points is going to be deleted. Actually this seems to depend on the route orientation, independently to the position of the cursor. It would be nice that the point *nearest* to the cursor gets deleted. It would be also nice to have a small visual highlight on that point to lift any ambiguity.
3. In Edit Points mode, when pressing "Waypoint" for inserting a point in a segment, it would be nice that the *longest* segment adjacent to the inserted point then becomes the currently edited segment. This is, in my opinion, the most natural behavior expected when inserting multiple points for refining a route, regardless to the route orientation. (And use (1) if necessary).
One purpose of (2) and (3) is to make the interface behavior totally independent from the route orientation.
4. Why not add a "Move" button which, instead of deleting a point, moves it to the current cursor position? Definitely useful for correcting a misplaced point in the route. Or, if (2) and (3) are implemented correctly, One could just press successively "Delete" and "Waypoint" to get the same result.
Thanks!