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In POI export screen, add ? icon for "description" as well

Georg D shared this idea 9 years ago
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When exporting a POI folder as GPX, in the export screen there is an ? icon for GPX version 1.0 versus 1.1 that gives some helping users to choose the suiting choice.


I suggest to add a similar ? icon for "insert a formatted description" as well, as this simple checkmark has major consequences as I found out after checking it for some stupid reason: It adds a HTML table with most of the GPX WPT elements, e.g. point creation time, into the description of each point. If you later re-import the GPX into Locus, viewing the POI is fine, but when you edit it, you're seeing a lot of HTML source code and it's quite hard to find/extract the "real description". It's no workaround to export again with de-activated "insert a formatted description" and re-import, as the HTML persists - the creation time etc are just not added another time... The best workaround was to use search & replace in notepad++ but it took me around 30 minutes to get rid of all the HTML, because there are so many different variants in the HTML.


The text of the ? icon for "insert a formatted description" could be something like "Creates a HTML representation of each GPX element in its description. Not recommended if you plan to re-import or edit the GPX file."


I guess it's no big effort to add the icon & text, and I guess it can be used for POIs as well as for tracks.

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Hello Georg,


agree, this settings is little bit "dangerous" and "complicated". Even if this is desribed in little bit outdated manual http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:data:export_screen , I'll add a short "hint" into Locus. Hope it will be useful to some users. Thanks

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The ? icon exists in v3.1.3 - thank you, Menion! I guess much more people will use the icon than the manual.

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