Hey,
I've been building up a wish-list of minor tweaks to make to Viking. These
are all changes i more or less propose to make myself, but wanted to make sure
there were no major objections &c.
+ Add an alpha component to the track/route colouring.
+ Show all / hide all &c. for map layers / sub-layers.
+ Options to hide centre mark by default (and other show items).
+ Key binding for the "go to location" button. (A more general solution
might be a key-bindings config file.)
+ Ability to drag route points as well as track points.
I was also looking at the list of maps, and there are a few issues:
+ Terraserver (msrmaps) returns "service unavailable". I guess it was
silently killed. Should it be removed from the list of maps?
+ I think spot maps is also gone.
+ Perhaps include other Bing imagery as well as the satellite (since you
have an API key).
+ hikebikemap.de has some nice tiles -- in particular you can (with some
poking around their site) download just their hill-shading. Adding this
layer gives any map a 3d look. I put the following in maps.xml for this:
<object class="VikSlippyMapSource">
<property name="label">Bike and Hike Hill Shading</property>
<property name="hostname">toolserver.org</property>
<property name="url">/~cmarqu/hill/%d/%d/%d.png</property>
<property name="id">28</property>
<property name="copyright">hikebikemap & open street map
contributers</property>
</object>
Presuming hikebikemap.de don't mind the abuse, maybe these layers could be
added to the list?
I've also noticed a few maps don't work at certain zoom levels. Perhaps the
maps could have min/max zoom level properties added, instead of making invalid
requests to the server. If the zoom is out of range, just the nearest valid
one could be displayed.
My plan was to pick these things off as and when i get around to them (which
is not so often these days). I'm also happy for others to pick them off
instead :)
Best,
Matt
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