[closed] Trackpoint recording based on distance travelled?

[bhosty]

Hi

Thanks for the very useful app, Alpine Quest is a very good mapping and tracking program, finally I'm free of Memory Map and their expensive maps!

I have a suggestion about trackpoint recording - currently we can only configure how often a new trackpoint is recorded based on time. Would it be possible to instead base it on distance traveled?

I use AQ for recording my mountain biking trips, so sometimes I'm flying down a hill quite fast and 1 point every 10 or 30 seconds isn't enough, but at other times I'm plodding up a hill very slowly, or panting out of breath at the top for several minutes, so 30 seconds or 1 minute would be accurate enough. If we could instead record a point every 5 meters say (or 10, 50 etc) it would produce more accurate tracks with less points (no new points while stationary)?

Taking this further I know some devices (Garmin Edge 305 for example) have a 'smart' track recording mode which only adds a point when something about the track has changed, ie. speed, direction, altitude etc, so riding along a straight road for 1 mile at a constant speed would only require 2 points (extreme example), whereas a section of tight switchbacks with lots of direction changes would use many points as the direction and speed change every second.

Thanks

[Psyberia-Support]

Hi,
Thanks for your feedback.
Yes you're right, this could be a nice feature. Next version is under testing so it won't be include in it but this will be in the next one.
Concerning the 'smart' recording it could be also nice. I need to think of an easy configurable way to do it, cause I know that some users want to get location on a regular basis (even if no moving), in order to geotag photos or things like that...
Regards