[closed] Suggestions for Waypoints & display of Routes and Tracks
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:00 am
Many thanks for AlpineQuest - a marvellous app which I enjoy using and wouldn’t be without.
No problems with creating Tracks and managing Maps. Though it’s very worrying that the current version of Mobile Atlas Creator has had to remove most of its maps (v 1.8 still has most of the maps in working order, as you say – but for how long?).
But I do have some problems with Waypoints, and when displaying Routes and Tracks which I’ve created earlier:
Waypoint problems:
1. It seems that one Waypoint must always be focussed. But I’d usually like to display Waypoints without any of them being focussed. Could you provide an option for that? (If I select ‘Clear Focus’, all the Waypoints disappear.)
2. Waypoints which I’ve named are often displayed without their names. The one that’s focussed always has its name, the ones that aren’t focussed sometimes have their names and sometimes don’t. I’m confused. Couldn’t all named Waypoints always be displayed with their names?
3. Waypoint names appear (on my Dell Streak, anyway) in a rather small font - even after selecting ‘Very big’ in ‘On-map text size’. Could you add a ‘Very very big’ category? (The ‘Very small’ category = almost invisible.)
Problems with displaying Routes and Tracks:
When displaying a Route or Track which I’ve created earlier, one of the waypoints of the Route or Track is always focussed. But I would usually want to display the Route or Track without any focus – for instance, when simultaneously recording a new Track. Could you make this possible? (If I select ‘Clear Focus’, the Route/Track disappears along with the focus.)
Incidentally, when I first create a Route, the last waypoint on the Route remains focussed. If I then select ‘Clear Focus’, the focus disappears - but in this case the Route does not also disappear. At last, displayed as I want! The Route will disappear when I tap the Close/Save button. But when I re-open this Route, it behaves differently (and in what is currently the normal way, with a focus): selecting ‘Clear Focus’ now makes the Route and the focus disappear.
I find creating a Route very useful – to get a rough idea of how long a walk might be, and to display as a useful guide while recording a Track. And I can see the point of Waypoints (when their name is visible, anyway). Less sure about the point of Multiple waypoints, which cannot be named.
Anyway, very many thanks again for the hours of really useful entertainment.
No problems with creating Tracks and managing Maps. Though it’s very worrying that the current version of Mobile Atlas Creator has had to remove most of its maps (v 1.8 still has most of the maps in working order, as you say – but for how long?).
But I do have some problems with Waypoints, and when displaying Routes and Tracks which I’ve created earlier:
Waypoint problems:
1. It seems that one Waypoint must always be focussed. But I’d usually like to display Waypoints without any of them being focussed. Could you provide an option for that? (If I select ‘Clear Focus’, all the Waypoints disappear.)
2. Waypoints which I’ve named are often displayed without their names. The one that’s focussed always has its name, the ones that aren’t focussed sometimes have their names and sometimes don’t. I’m confused. Couldn’t all named Waypoints always be displayed with their names?
3. Waypoint names appear (on my Dell Streak, anyway) in a rather small font - even after selecting ‘Very big’ in ‘On-map text size’. Could you add a ‘Very very big’ category? (The ‘Very small’ category = almost invisible.)
Problems with displaying Routes and Tracks:
When displaying a Route or Track which I’ve created earlier, one of the waypoints of the Route or Track is always focussed. But I would usually want to display the Route or Track without any focus – for instance, when simultaneously recording a new Track. Could you make this possible? (If I select ‘Clear Focus’, the Route/Track disappears along with the focus.)
Incidentally, when I first create a Route, the last waypoint on the Route remains focussed. If I then select ‘Clear Focus’, the focus disappears - but in this case the Route does not also disappear. At last, displayed as I want! The Route will disappear when I tap the Close/Save button. But when I re-open this Route, it behaves differently (and in what is currently the normal way, with a focus): selecting ‘Clear Focus’ now makes the Route and the focus disappear.
I find creating a Route very useful – to get a rough idea of how long a walk might be, and to display as a useful guide while recording a Track. And I can see the point of Waypoints (when their name is visible, anyway). Less sure about the point of Multiple waypoints, which cannot be named.
Anyway, very many thanks again for the hours of really useful entertainment.