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Feature Requests / Tile management
« on: January 05, 2008, 05:48:28 PM »
I've been playing with Topofusion demo and love how smoothly it works with the GPS, plus the track analysis features and the fact that it caches topos and images from the web. It works great for analysing GPS tracks after an outing and also for planing places to visit before you go if you are online. I've played with the GPS tracking features and trying it out on laptop when I'm out and about but each time find I don't have the tiles I thought I had loaded when I get to try it offline.
I'm curious if there is a map tile management tool planned or something already available??
-I'd love to zoom out to the "Zoomed out too far" level and see some red or green tiles that indicate I have tiles in those regions and down to what zoom levels if it can't get all topos.
-It would be great to box select a region, a set of waypoints in a GPS, or a track and have a macro run, even if it took all night, to just get all the zoomed in tiles in that area, near those points, or along that route... say all of So. Cal down to 2M since I live there, or a track along I-15 to Vegas at a lesser level?
-If this were to get too memory intensive, then the posiblility to delete areas from cache would also be cool... Say I flew to another town for a vacation and had loaded some maps around where I was staying but didn't need them after the trip?
Less impotant, but maybe someday
-The ability to sync some of the cached tile images from the lap top to a PDA or cell phone (handshaking with a companion program by someone else even) just before a hike would make for a killer app in my oppinon for those times where you were out on a planned trip with printed maps even, but conditions change at the place you thought you were going, you don't have internet acces but you have a laptop full of backup plans in your trunk?
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I'm curious if there is a map tile management tool planned or something already available??
-I'd love to zoom out to the "Zoomed out too far" level and see some red or green tiles that indicate I have tiles in those regions and down to what zoom levels if it can't get all topos.
-It would be great to box select a region, a set of waypoints in a GPS, or a track and have a macro run, even if it took all night, to just get all the zoomed in tiles in that area, near those points, or along that route... say all of So. Cal down to 2M since I live there, or a track along I-15 to Vegas at a lesser level?
-If this were to get too memory intensive, then the posiblility to delete areas from cache would also be cool... Say I flew to another town for a vacation and had loaded some maps around where I was staying but didn't need them after the trip?
Less impotant, but maybe someday
-The ability to sync some of the cached tile images from the lap top to a PDA or cell phone (handshaking with a companion program by someone else even) just before a hike would make for a killer app in my oppinon for those times where you were out on a planned trip with printed maps even, but conditions change at the place you thought you were going, you don't have internet acces but you have a laptop full of backup plans in your trunk?
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