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Feature Requests / Rotate a user map?

« on: December 13, 2009, 12:09:43 PM »

I've been importing some cycling cue sheets as custom User Maps.  Basically, I'm looking to transfer the route into GPS data.  All the features that are there are working well for me.

Based on what I've been doing, I feel it would be handy to have a new function that allows maps to be rotated to an arbitrary angle.  The custom map always has up = north.  The map can be stretched and scaled, but not skewed or turned.  My scanned cue sheets place north in all kinds of arbitrary directions, as they tend to align the longest dimension of the page with the longest dimension of the route.  Adding the ability to rotate would be handy in this kind of case.

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Feature Requests / Zoom recenters on mouse cursor

« on: December 13, 2009, 12:03:04 PM »

Currently, the mouse scroll-wheel zoom stays centered on the map screen center in many of the tool modes.  I wonder if it would be possible to enable an option to select a change of this default behavior so that zooming in and out could simply recenter the screen based on the position of the mouse cursor instead?

For example, when using the Zoom Box tool, and clicking once on the map, it behaves the way I would like to see for the scroll wheel.  The map zooms in a level and at the same time it re-centers the map right on the place that is where the mouse was clicked on. 

When another tool-tip is selected (not in the zoom tool mode), the behavior changes and it zooms in and out with a lock on the screen center.  This interface switch keeps confusing me, and I find it clumsy to have to scroll and arrow key just to follow details around in the view.

This really gets clumsy when tracing a map, messing around with the scale of a custom user map, long tracks...etc.