A few ideas from Smartmaps
Hi Menion,
I am trying SmartMaps resently. I will probably stay with Locus but there are a few nice features I would like to see in Locus as well:
- Routing (navigation) data for walking are much better is Smartmaps (for Czech republic). I understand you cannot just use their routing data but maybe you may get another idea.
- In Smartmaps planner you can add several points to your track, delete any of them, change the order and then compute a route. In Locus you can only delete the last one, you cannot change the order and cannot list what points are already added. (this feature I consider to be quite significant)
- Sun around the compas.
- POI category groups
- Searching in offline POIs should ignore diacritics.
Bugs:
- Searching in Wikipedia does not work for cs (it works for en, de, fr, es, ar, bg and probably others).
- Field location in dialog Wikipedia search contains “Map center” but choosing anything else does not work.
Thank you (regardless you find these ideas usefull or not)
I like this idea 
Hi Daniel
Nice collection of "IDEAS".
What a pity - i`m not sure, if anybody want to vote for all this ideas together.
Hi Daniel
Nice collection of "IDEAS".
What a pity - i`m not sure, if anybody want to vote for all this ideas together.
Hello Daniel,
- as gynta wrote, it`s on more topics which is little bit complicated here. Really suggest to post less interesting topics separately, because then it will has higher chance to realization, anyway because I know SmartMaps quite well :), so ...
1) routing - you`re right that it`s not possible to use routing of SmartMaps. It`s current not in my power to create own system, so I`m rather waiting till something usable will appear.
2) SmartMaps planner has nice advantage - it use offline routing. Then you may simply handle with points and then simply compute new route. With online routing, that takes some time to compute etc. it`s more complicated. Anyway you`re right that it may be useful. It`s anyway on separate topic (as gynta wrote)
3) sun - also on separate topic, anyway it`s planned.
4) POI grouping, not for now, sorry
5) searching in offline POI - it`s more more on bug report :)
6) wikipedia - here is content of server I use for searching - http://wikilocation.org/documentation... . Seems that server itself has some problems with CS articles
7) problem with map center - thanks, fixed
EDIT: I just noticed separate topic on wikipedia, perfect. So I`m closing this topic as not planned, because it`s not possible mark only one item
Hello Daniel,
- as gynta wrote, it`s on more topics which is little bit complicated here. Really suggest to post less interesting topics separately, because then it will has higher chance to realization, anyway because I know SmartMaps quite well :), so ...
1) routing - you`re right that it`s not possible to use routing of SmartMaps. It`s current not in my power to create own system, so I`m rather waiting till something usable will appear.
2) SmartMaps planner has nice advantage - it use offline routing. Then you may simply handle with points and then simply compute new route. With online routing, that takes some time to compute etc. it`s more complicated. Anyway you`re right that it may be useful. It`s anyway on separate topic (as gynta wrote)
3) sun - also on separate topic, anyway it`s planned.
4) POI grouping, not for now, sorry
5) searching in offline POI - it`s more more on bug report :)
6) wikipedia - here is content of server I use for searching - http://wikilocation.org/documentation... . Seems that server itself has some problems with CS articles
7) problem with map center - thanks, fixed
EDIT: I just noticed separate topic on wikipedia, perfect. So I`m closing this topic as not planned, because it`s not possible mark only one item
this topic is closed, but I just wanted to inform, that at least "sun around compass" is added ;) (now, so it will be in next version)
this topic is closed, but I just wanted to inform, that at least "sun around compass" is added ;) (now, so it will be in next version)
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