Mapper: "Tourist mode"

[ollesmaps]

Steps to reproduce

It would be nice for some occasions to have a "Tourist mode". For times when you stroll through terrain faster and need to see your movement on screen legibly.

Expected behaviour

In "Tourist mode" the position dot shall be bigger. The gps position shall be in centre of screen all time. The position line shall be thicker (that can be solved by #986).

[Zerbembasqwibo]

Now when "jump to GPS-position" tool is implemented, I suggest that double or long click on the button will start up "tourist mode". It means the app will autopush on the button every second.

In settings you might implement choises:

• How often to update: 1,2,3,4,5,10,20,30 sec's from a dropdown list
• If to lock all other functions/buttons while in this mode (maybe it has to be, what if you draw and the map jumps around by itself? Or use same logic as for autorotate) (yes/no)
• If to override screen save (yes/no) (if possible)

Default: 1 sec update frequencey, no locking of other tools, yes prevent screen saver to darken the device.

[Zerbembasqwibo]

Anyone else that feels this would be cool/useful?

[lpechacek]

To be honest, I occasionally recall this ticket while walking through a forest. However, the pressure is not sufficient to make me jump into writing code for this enhancement. So, at the risk of sounding rude, let me remind that Mapper is an open-source project. Anyone can try contributing code. I promise I'll be friendly to the person who comes with the first implementation of this feature.

[Zerbembasqwibo]

I know, I have thought about giving coding a chance even I have just small
experience. :)

onsdag 19 februari 2020 skrev Libor Pecháček [e-mail]:

To be honest, I occasionally recall this ticket while walking through a
forest. However, the pressure is not sufficient to make me jump into
writing code for this enhancement. So, at the risk of sounding rude, let me
remind that Mapper is an open-source project. Anyone can try contributing
code. I promise I'll be friendly to the person who comes with the first
implementation of this feature.

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[lpechacek]

@ollesmaps, is the below what you meant?

Tourist mode can be activated after long press on "move to current location".

Then the location cursor is free to wander within the central area of the screen and the map gets scrolled only when the cursor would leave the center region.

Quite naturally, attempts to pan the map view by hand get overridden by the automatic adjustment.

[lpechacek]

During the next two weeks, I won't have the possibility to test this enhancement in the field. Those interested in trying out tourist mode can download a test build at the location mentioned in https://github.com/OpenOrienteering/mapper/issues/1242#issuecomment-633700552. The test build, identifying itself as _OpenOrienteering Mapper git-mobile_ui_gadgets_, can be installed alongside the official Mapper release. Any feedback is welcome.

[ollesmaps]

@lpechacek
Libor, looks prefect, I will surely test it. Thank you!

[mlerjen]

@lpechacek: Testing the tourist mode the app started zooming in minimum-stepwise ad nauseam resp. until I closed the app. It happened twice. A third try the mode worked as intended. I cannot reproduce the error.

[lpechacek]

Thanks, Martin, for the report. I'll review the code one more time to see what could have gone wrong.

[ollesmaps]

It works perfectly well! Some mapping days I have it all time on. It saves time.
One detail: when returning to normal regimen it could say "Stop autopan..." instead of "Autopan..." (sentence from the start).

[ollesmaps]

As a sidenote: isn't the autopanning a way how to introduce fluent drawing enhancement #988 ?

[dg0yt]

I'm preparing this for merging and releasing with the next master release. I can confirm that unexpected changes of zoom may happen quite regularly. I will try to implement the repositioning a little differently.