---------------------------------------- > 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.
Sounds good. I'd probably put the control in the Tracks Property (to go along with the track colour), rather than in Layer->Tracks Advanced tab. > + Show all / hide all &c. for map layers / sub-layers. ? There already are Show All/Hide All/Toggle options for any layers within an Aggregate layer. (Right click on it -> Visibility -> ...) May be you can expand in more detail what you have in mind. > + Options to hide centre mark by default (and other show items). I thought about this but decided it's not important enough to clutter the preferences UI about this. After all, the original 'Show' items are stored in .vik files. (X,scale & highlight) Otherwise window layout UI ones are saved automatically and only restored if you use the Preference->Startup->Restore Window Setup > + Key binding for the "go to location" button. (A more general solution > might be a key-bindings config file.) Yes please. I'm sure a key-bindings file is *much* more effort but that would be really good. > + Ability to drag route points as well as track points. ? If you use the 'Select' tool you can drag route points. The Trackpoint Edit tool, as the name suggest only works on Trackpoints. I was tempted to remove the Trackpoint Edit tool mode and force using the Select tool but in the end left the original UI as is. > 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. Probably - I never use these map types, so I don't notice when they go missing. > + Perhaps include other Bing imagery as well as the satellite (since you > have an API key). I believe the satellite imagery is the only allowed type. > + 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? The Wiki is a good place for a collection of potential tile sources a user can add to their own configuration: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/viking/index.php?title=Maps > 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. This is already on the Ideas List: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/viking/index.php?title=IdeaList (More Map Configuration part) > 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 > Thanks for the continued interest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
