[Viking-devel] Routing stuff (was: Patches to fix map drag and drop + add etag implementation)

[Guilhem B. <gui...@gm...>]

2010/8/9 Robert Norris <rw_...@ho...>:
> I recently stopped using viking for route planning, finding www.bikehike.co.uk much more useful (especially being in the UK!).

Can you give us more details about features missing in viking for a
good routing software?


Personnally, I have some ideas about routing stuff in viking.
First of all, I think we have to generalize the code in order to use
different routing services (like I did for the "Go to" feature).
Next, I don't feel the "magic scisor" really user friendly nor
intuitive (some friends of mine were surprised when I explain them
what is this feature). So, I imagined some other way to prepare the
request for a generic "routing service". One of them can be:
1) create a track starting at your starting point and ending at your destination
2) eventually, add trackpoints if you need to go through somel checkpoints
2) use a "filter" to request a real route using these checkpoints.
3) you obtain the real route as a new track

As editing track is not really simple (at least nowadays), perhaps can
we use waypoints instead:
1) creat as many waypoints as needed
2) order them by name
3) use a filter on the TRW layer to request a route
4) you obtain the real route as a new track

These are my ideas for this feature.
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Guilhem BONNEFILLE
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