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Posts: 112 | Thanked: 6 times | Joined on Feb 2006
#126
Today on my route I had to make more than 1 delivery at once and decided to try to add a route to my existing 1st route. I discovered hat while it was possible (a big plus), it was too cumbersome at this stage to use (a big negative)... cancelling ea other out, heh. To add a route on top of your current route, you have to go into 'Route>Download' and copy the lat/long from the clipboard. It was at this point I found my first bug So.... bug report.... 'Waypoint>Copy lat/long to Clipboard' returns answer 'latitude:46.0000000'... it actually says 'latitude' and does not have longitude at all. To enter a lat/long into your text field to obtain a route, it takes the '46.000000, -121.0000000' format with no words etc, so the copy feature of press-and-hold should load the lat/long this way for us, too, heh.

Enhancement:
Please add, in the 'Route>Download' popup window, a button to click that says 'Add Dest' for Add Destination. Clicking this pops up another window with one text window field, and two buttons, ok and cancel. If we put in our address and hit ok, the route appends to the end of the last route generated automatically, allowing us to quickly load any number of destinations before we ever get on the road. Of course, now that we have a bunch of green lines on the map crisscrossing each other, you may have to make all but the CURRENT route yet another color like grey or yellow. And as we arrive at one destination and begin our track to the next destination on our multi-route setup, the 2nd route then becomes the new green one.

Of course, not all GPS' provide perfect results, so if there is a feaure to have multi-routes that change colors as you enter/exit each stage of your multi-route setup, then we'd need a 'Force Arrival of Current Route' button somewhere to tell Maemo Mapper that 'hey, my GPS is stupid cause we ARE there now, so go ahead and start the next segment of the route... changing segment colors, etc...'

Aaaargh, I've added too much to your plate.... not my intention. I'd just like a clean way to add multiple routes into one huge setup while yet NOT adding confusion. I can force MM to do this, it just takes me 5 minutes, and I can't be sitting in my car that long... if you can use the idea, great, otherwise I understand.

Later.
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Last edited by Ceklund; 2006-07-15 at 09:41.