Simple distance measuring tool

Andrew Johnson shared this idea ago

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Please can you add a simple distance measuring tool. Just touch the screen with 2 fingers or thumb and index finger and distance between the 2 points is shown. Mapfactor navigator has this feature.

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freischneider ●

Already available. https://docs.locusmap.app/de/doku.php?id=manual:user_guide:settings:control#two-finger_measuring

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Andrew Johnson ●

Thanks but I am on Android 9... It does not seem to work for me. Nothing is shown with a dual touch tap or hold...

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freischneider ●

Have you activated it in the settings?

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Andrew Johnson ●

Thanks I have now but didn't know where to find it at first!

I don't see a good reason to have this disabled by default. In fact, I don't think it should be a setting at all. Just hold for distance measurement otherwise pinch zoom...

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Menion ●

Hello, so all is working right?
"I don't see a good reason to have this disabled by default." > I believe there can be found more reasons why this should be disabled by default.

It may be triggered by accident instead of pinch-zoom. If you do pinch-zoom movement very slowly, it will be triggered as "measure" and opposite. Now all may like it.

Also, not all users need this functionality. How many users use this is not known to me to be true.

Many features are disabled by default, as we prefer not to overflow users by too many features at start.

Anyway, I hope, it will work as expected to you!

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Andrew Johnson ●

OK - you know the users better than me!! Just seemed complicated I suppose! Now that I have it set up, it's grand, thank you! Much appreciate the help here - and the community!

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