Sorry, it should be P1 - > D2 - > D1 - > P2
Helmut Jarausch <hjarau...@gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 11. März 2020, 12:29: > Here is a problem which I can't solve and which is related to straight > line navigation. > You notice a distant fire and you want to find where it is located. > On my old Garmin device there is a feature called Sight'N Go. > One aims at the distant object and presses Enter. Then one can create a > distant way point by specifying an approximate distance. > This can be used to solve my problem as follows: > Do Sight'N Go from two positions (P1 and P2) which are sufficiently apart > from each other. This gives the two distant way points D1 and D2. > With these data one creates a piecewise straight route connecting > P1 - > D1 - > D2 - > P2 > This route intersects itself at the position of the fire. (at least if the > estimated distances of D1 and D2 are greater than the distance of the fire) > Sorry if this is too offtopic, > Helmut > > Bart Eisenberg <barteisenb...@gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 10. März 2020, > 21:44: > >> Yeah, that "Bart" story: *c'est moi*. >> >> The new version of straight-line navigation kicks in if you go >> off-course. With the appropriate settings, it maintains your original >> bearing, then, maybe two-thirds of the way, it course-corrects--angling >> back to the destination. What's the application for this? As opposed to >> just straight straight-line navigation from current location to >> destination. >> >> Here's the blog description: "We have also implemented a new setting. In >> case if you deviate from the route during the navigation, this setting >> builds the shortest path from your current position to the calculated route >> with the maximum angle. In other words, if the angle is higher than the one >> set by the user, OsmAnd calculates the next point of the route to build an >> additional route segment, so the angle will be valid." >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 1:08:56 PM UTC-7, Pere Pujal i Carabantes >> wrote: >>> >>> El dt. 10 de 03 de 2020 a les 17:41 +0100, en/na Harry van der Wolf va >>> escriure: >>> > >>> > >>> > Op di 10 mrt. 2020 om 16:30 schreef Bart Eisenberg < >>> > bartei...@gmail.com>: >>> > > >>> > > To my American ear, the help pages are surprisingly clear. Where I >>> > > notice a gap, due to non-native writing, murky technical writing, >>> > > or both, is in parts of the blog, such as the OsmAnd 3.6 post. I'm >>> > > still trying to figure out, for example, exactly how the improved >>> > > version of straight-line navigation works and where it might be >>> > > useful. Airplane landings? >>> >>> It should be very usefull in unknown/unmaped terrain were you want to >>> know the direction to the destination but can not relay on the map data >>> to get there, so you take the paths that you see on the terrain that >>> you assume will lead better to the destination. >>> >>> HTH >>> Pere >>> >>> -- >> 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 osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/52c13fc4-be9c-4db5-90f0-adf570b169db%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/52c13fc4-be9c-4db5-90f0-adf570b169db%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/CA%2BCgGZTjOPBaR-gG8jKAzdDhv9Ae7xi83v3Z_G3GCBWy%2BUAxkg%40mail.gmail.com.
