Direction and distance in the map

[Ville]

Hi.

Here's a preview of a feature I added. It's a line in map view from
current position to selected cache with distance shown below the arrow.
Also the line is color coded from green to yellow to red for distances.
Red being 2 km and green couple hundred meters. Here's couple screenshots.

The idea of the line is to give you a direction and estimation of
distance when you're in the map view even if you have zoomed so close
that the destination does not show in the map.

What do you think? I kinda like it, but would that be useful for anyone
else? I guess if this is included it should be optional...

Ville

[Anders Petersson]

Looks cool. :)

/A

[Rob Wallace]

A great idea, it would be good to be able to turn it on and off using a menu item.  

[Jason Blauert]

Seems pretty cool. I can definitely see it being useful while driving
so you do not have to keep zooming in and out to see both my location
and the cache's.

Of course that being said ... I would only find it useful if US units
were also available :)

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[Bruno Bougie]

Hi Ville,
Definitely a cool feature... Probably especially when you use
your phone as driving aid as well. Personally i find it hard to
Use the phone when finding a cache. The main reasons:
-display hard to read in the sun
-gps quality not as good as my garmin gps
-trying to save battery

so when i'm in holiday i use the app to select the caches i want to
find..and use my garmin gps to do the actual search.

The app i use only when in a city and need the map or additional
hints.

With that in mind one feature woukd be extremely convenient, which
woukd be
the possibility to "mark" caches in the list..so when out in
the open you could filter them and ONLY see the marked caches on
the map. This would especially be convenient in high density cache
areas (city centres)

Anyway..thanks for the effort you put in this app...it made my caching
life considerably easier!

Cheers
Bruno

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[Anders Petersson]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Bruno Bougie <mailfo...@gmail.com> wrote:

With that in mind one feature woukd be extremely convenient, which
woukd be
the possibility to "mark" caches in the list..so when out in
the open you could filter them and ONLY see the marked caches on
the map. This would especially be convenient in high density cache
areas (city centres)

This is already working. Press the star on the compass page or long-press a cache in the cache list to add as a favorite, then filter on favorites only.

/Anders

[Ville]

Hi Bruno,
Glad you like GeoHunter and appreciate our efforts =)

Ok, this feature seems to be welcome, so I committed it with following
additions:
- Menu item to enable/disable (state is remembered between sessions)
- The distance is shown either in metric or imperial system according
to global settings
- Background of the distance is the same color as the line
representing the distance. And its oval instead of circle so it fits
little better.

I went to a little walk and tried it out. It seems to sometimes show the
location little bit different from the location arrow. This mainly
happens when there is poor gps signal and it seems that usually the
arrow is further from reality. But when the signal is good, it seems to
work pretty well.

Ville

[Anders Petersson]

Hey
I'm a bit late here but anyway, thanks for the commit. Does anyone have more code in the pipeline?
My ambition is to push this to Market within shortly. I also noted that GeoHunter passed 50,000 downloads a week ago.
/Anders