Place Names

[kbrye]

I have looked to see if this has been posted before, but did not see it.  A feature I use with other topo software is place name lookup.  Much like the city name, but can search on lake names, stream names, etc.  It would be a nice addition if possible.

Thanks

[ScottMorris]

Agreed, thanks for the suggestion.

[steverod]

+1 on this one.

I was going to suggest some form of "bookmarks" wherein you can set a bookmark at a particular coordinate and have it available in the "Goto" menu, but really that's just a workaround for not being able to search on place names. It also seems like a feature black hole that would be an endless fount of "suggestions" and gripes....

but I really would like to be able to quickly zip over to a particular spot on the map. (For me it's usually just one of a few -- say 10-15 -- places, which is why I thought of bookmarks.)

[KenF]

I was going to suggest some form of "bookmarks" wherein you can set a bookmark at a particular coordinate and have it available in the "Goto" menu

but I really would like to be able to quickly zip over to a particular spot on the map.

Actually a version of this already exists albeit a tad awkward to navigate. You can create a .GPX file consisting only of waypoints of your "bookmarks," select the "properties" of that file and then bring up the list of waypoints. Double click on the one you want.

So maybe Scott could be talked into simply implementing a shortcut of this procedure. Like adding a "show waypoints" option to the right-click menu of a loaded file?   
KF

[steverod]

The waypoint idea is better than what I had been thinking, which was to have a GPX file loaded for each place I was likely to go! (Since double-clicking on the file will go to a contained track.)

But I still think that a better place name search is the way to go here.

[KenF]

I was going to suggest some form of "bookmarks" wherein you can set a bookmark at a particular coordinate and have it available in the "Goto" menu ...

To follow up:
Fact of the matter is that your very own waypoints do become searchable via  "GOTO" if you add them  to the "city-small.gpx" or "city-large.gpx" files found in the "GIS" subfolder of the "tracks" folder.

That also suggests that there are probably other variations on this theme.
 
 

[ScottMorris]

These are good thoughts, and I agree it's be nice to have an easy way to zoom around to your favorite 'hot spots'.  Also place names would be handy.