What I'm seeing when I press the the quick action button is an orange marker. I can change its position by sliding & zooming the map under it. Pressing "Add GPX waypoint" marks where I've last placedit. I've not used the quick action button much, but it does seem like a more precise way of establishing a point on the map.
On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 9:51:26 AM UTC-7, Akkana Peck wrote: > > Bart Eisenberg writes: > > I'm pretty sure that it's only searching for data residing on your > device > > via the regional map your using. I say that because when I add a GPX > > waypoint using the quick action button, the behavior seems the same > whether > > I'm in airplane mode or not. Are you seeing the same thing? > > I'm not sure, because I think the behavior is different the first > time vs. subsequent times (at least, it doesn't take as long on > subsequent tries). So I'd have to kill the app and restart to > test that. But Android settings does say that Osmand has used a > small amount of mobile data. > > It's academic, though, because I'd forgotten that "Add GPX Waypoint" > from the quick settings doesn't use the current point, but some > other location -- I think it's using the center of the current view? > I'm curious why anyone would want that -- you can't even tell where > the center is from looking, so when you tap "Add GPX waypoint" > then wait for the address search to time out, a marker eventually > appears in a random and not really predictable place. > > I wish there was a way to add a GPX waypoint for the current position, > without address search, from quick settings. > > ...Akkana > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
