Intermediate points and target points

[Victor Shcherb]

Hi All,

Coming back to the question Setting Target point/Intermediate point and calculating route. 

I found myself that's pretty annoying to press all the time "Yes, I want to replace current destination point". So now, when car navigation is finished the target point will be removed. And next trip you will not see that message.

Waypoints dialog is extended and now you are able to change the order of waypoints. 

I'm going to simplify the context menu and leave only 2 actions : "Set as destination" (replace current destination) and "Add waypoint" (conditional). After "set as destionation" dialog to calculate route will popup with 3 options : "follow", "show", "no route" as it is now from search activity. "Add  waypoint" will open dialog of waypoints for possible reorder... "Directions to ..", "Add as first...", "Add as last ..." will be deleted.

Because the usage is very diverse for different profile, I think how to introduce "Intent" that you run application on the first screen. For example, you start application you most likely know that you start with Car navigation or with Search (default profile). So application mode could be selectable on the first screen.

I think how to keep all scenarios in place but also reduce the complexity. Please give your feedback and say what could be improved next.

Best Regards,

Victor

[Robert Grant]

Well, Victor, since you are asking, I'll shoot for the moon!  How about displaying vertical profile information between waypoints?  In addition could we provide the user with aural announcements of percent slope between current, next, and future waypoints?  Finally, since many users download GPX routes and follow them with Osmand, could the app anaylze these routes and provide vertical profile information between turn points and/or waypoints?  This would certainly enhance utility of the app.  

Many thanks for requesting input from us.  Here's a screen shot from the ridewithgps program illustrating one possible display:

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Robert Grant

[Victor Shcherb]

Hi,

It doesn't look bad :) Where do you suppose to take that information?

Best Regards,

Victor

2012/12/17 Robert Grant <rgran...@gmail.com>

[Robert Grant]

Hi Victor,

This altitude information is part of the SRTM data set.  Computing slope percentage is simple math.   A project involving altitude profiles for cycle routes is currently in development and early testing.  Not sure if we could utilize any of that work.  

Regards,

Robert

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Robert Grant