I've now been using QLGT for a little while and am really enjoying the tool. I've showed it to friends who are very intrigued and like the much cleaner interface than Ozi, for example. Still, being the pedantic sort, here is a small chunk of food for thought regarding the software.
These aren't really organised in any particular order of importance. It's just a mish-mash of ideas. Enjoy... Geo-referencing: * Crosshairs instead of those pins when georeferencing. * Have the georeferencing points snap to pixels as used by gdal so that one knows exactly where they'll end up. * Allow the georeferencing points to be moved with the keyboard (e.g. the arrow keys) rather than only dragged into place with the mouse. * It would be a great feature if one could take a map from a set and fine tune the georeferencing points if the maps don't fit together properly. Interface aesthetics: * Move Setup > General to Edit > Preferences? * Tool tips for the “M” and “T” headers in the maps list on the maps tab. Not quite self-explanatory (Marked and Type?) * Narrower tabs graphics. * List the F-key shortcuts in the status bar when it's hidden in the side-bar. * Scrap the Project Summary from the side-bar but add the option to clear the project to the project window. * Put up a graphic that shows when QLGT/GDAL is working/waiting. Sometimes one isn't sure if it's doing something, has finished, is hung or just ignoring some type of input. Interface functionality: * C-q to quit * Optionally have the mouse scroll wheel pan, rather than zoom. With a two axis touchpad that seems like a more useful behaviour. * Make it possible to somehow center a point on the map (e.g. by double-clicking) so that one can zoom in on that point ... and/or zoom in on the point where the pointer is hovering. * Add the option of keeping the same viewport when switching between maps, as opposed to saving the view of each map. Helps when comparing information between two raster maps. * List both raster and vector maps in one window. Perhaps offer a few ordering methods, such as map type, name and order of last use? Track editor * Handle NANs in GPS elevation data more gracefully. Currently the altitudes seem to shoot off into the stratosphere on the profile graph. Grid: * Narrower gridlines (or with variable width) and adjustble distance between lines. Streaming maps: * Implement a map cache for easy downloading for offline use. Even integrate that into the select sub-map feature so that TMS/WMS maps get loaded into a cache or special map. Live Log: * Place the tip of the arrow at the position, rather than its middle. * Add the option to display a circle indicating the radius of the error. Bugs: * BUG: Crashes on starting LiveLog if gpsd is not running. * BUG: Sometimes zooming gets stuck at ca. 32x Zoom level. (seems to be non-reproducable) * BUG: When I press the "-" key on my keyboard, it behaves like a "+" key. This seems to come from the fact that my keyboard layout has redefined that key as "-" but QLGT seems to ignore the keysym, and rather listen to the original keycode. Interestingly, the zoom keys work properly in the 3D map. * BUG: The georeferencing pins sometimes become ungrabbable (seems to be when you do something else and they somehow aren't part of the context any more) * BUG: The diary icon still shows after deleting a diary from a project. (QLGT crashed when I was playing around with adding and deleting diaries). * BUG: In the database, when one adds an “other data” directory to a project directory, the tick mark gets set and one can no longer toggle it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
