Hi,
I've added a set of buttons into the layout which should assist in
making notes if you come across a building with solar panels whilst
surveying. The buttons are * Roof_PV-L if the building with panels is
on your left as survey,* Roof-PV-R
* PV_315-44
* PV_225-314, PV_45-134,
* PV_135-224
As you move, OSMTracker displays your direction of travel, in degrees
(North is 0 or 360) .
My suggestion is that you touch a button to indicate if you have seen
panels on your left or right, and then touch a button to indicate which
way the panel is facing (most, but not all, are facing South). If you
want to further refine this, touch two buttons to indicate to yourself
when editing that the panels were facing, for instance South East.
Obviously not as good for volume updates, but it all helps.
At the moment the set is available using the settings for my
repository;
Github username = Nick-TallguyRepository Name = osmtracker-android-
layoutsBranch name = detailed-tracks
Any problems or suggestions, please get back to me.
I've submitted a pull request for the set to be included within the
standard list as I think they are now complete, but I'm always open to
suggestions.
Regards
NickOSM = Tallguy
On Sun, 2019-08-18 at 20:33 +0100, Nick Allen wrote:
> Hi - for Mark and anyone else who was having problems with the
> displayed icons.
>
> I've created another layout set, this time with icons 300 pixels in
> size - previous set had 500px. This set is visible when you carry out
> the search for layouts from the app (settings / button presets /
> green cross top right). Having tried it on my phone I think it
> displays better than the original 500px set, and it will probably be
> the set that I go with when I set as standard.
>
> If possible I'd like to end up with only one icon size and one set
> published, otherwise I'm in danger of making a mistake and having
> slightly different buttons on each - but if there is a reason for
> more than one set, I'll do my best.
>
> Please get back to me Mark, and anyone else having problems with the
> icon size - I'm no programmer, but I do have a couple of things more
> that I could try that might help.
>
> Regards
>
> Nick
> OSM = Tallguy
>
> & Rob - I'd been using the old deprecated version for years, and only
> stumbled across the new version by accident - it seems very strange
> to have the two.
>
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Rob Nickerson
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 at 23:33
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OSMTracker for Android - detailed survey of
> paths & tracks layout
> To: Andy Townsend
> Cc: Talk-GB
>
>
> Sure I get that from a code point of view, although I was surprised
> Google allowed 2 almost identical versions (name and logo) on the
> store. Personally I was coming from a marketing and user friendliness
> point of view. It's confusing for users and will probably cost the
> new developer time in the long run as he/she will probably get some
> issues raised on GitHub that relate to the "other" OSM Tracker.
>
> Would have thought a rebrand would have been useful if no way to get
> the old app down. Likewise I would have thought a few minutes to make
> the app look more maintained on the OSM wiki (e.g. update
> screenshots, removal of PDA survey) would of been a help to attract
> new users.
>
> Anyway, not an issue for me (as I don't use it) so I won't loose any
> sleep over this one. Certainly not "upset" just confused by the
> situation.
>
> Rob
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 at 12:45, Andy Townsend
> wrote:
> > > Why on earth are there 2 versions of OSMTracker for Android on
> > the Play store?!
> >
> > It's open source software, so it's fairly technically
> > straightforward to "clone, modify and resubmit". What restrictions
> > Google put on this sort of thing currently I don't know, but I
> > suspect they're mostly limited to an API usage check and a " dodgy
> > code behaviour" check (that'd be the case for an Enterprise Play
> > Store submission).
> >
> > > Which is the right one and how to get an old one removed?
> >
> >
> >
> > Maybe there isn't one "right one" ? My recollection was that there
> > was a problem with OSM-hosted tile usage in one of the versions
> > (which may have been since resolved) and there was a bit of a delay
> > getting it fxed. Perhaps someone fixed it in "another" version in
> > the meantime?
> >
> > Whatever it is, I'd suggest that the best place to ask the question
> > would be to the relevant app authors via the Play Store support
> > link, or github (at least one of them has a public issues list
> > there).
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
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