On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:
> 
> A probably simpler solution: what about adding bearing information between
> to consecutive trackpoints while drawing a track? Currently, the track
> length is displayed, but we can display any information.
> Behaviour would be:
> 1) put all the waypoints
> 2) from each waypoint, draw a simple track (2 points)
>   2a) while searching the rigth place to click the second point of each
> track, a tooltip display the bearing from previous trackpoint.
> 3) create (manually) a new waypoint where tracks intersect

That sounds great. 

> This is probably not really precise as final waypoint is placed manually,
> but can certainly be sufficient here.

Given the approximate nature of compass bearings, at least with
consumer level compasses, local variation in declination, gps error
in waypoints and so on, I am sure the above would be more than adequate.

Thank you,

ael


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