I have only toyed with Viking until recently when I was OSM mapping a feature (a wind turbine, as it happens) which I could not approach directly.
Instead, I did the obvious: I took a series of bearings with a compass from waypoints that I created. The Viking ruler tool seemed the obvious way to locate the best point where the bearings intersected. But it seems that it was not designed for this (obvious?) use. I could position the initial point on a waypoint imported from my gps unit. I could move the mouse position until I had the angle from the compass bearing. But then I was stuck: I needed to maintain that construction line while I added the other waypoints and their bearings. But the ruler tool always deleted the line before I could use it. What I did was a very cumbersome and slow manual recording of the position, and then used the coordinates to create a waypoint, and then a two point "track" for each bearing. I suggest that the ruler tool should have the faciliy to create points, perhaps waypoints, or indeed two node tracks (as construction lines), in these circumstances - a right alt click or whatever, perhaps. That should be very easy to implement? And it would be extremely useful. ael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
