Thread: Plans for Maemo Mapper v2.0
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2007-05-21 , 15:43
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Originally Posted by sherifnix View Post
I have found MaemoMapper to be a little confusing, and I consider myself fairly a savvy user. I think that using some of the screen real estate to put some basic buttons/shortcuts on the left or right side would be excellent.
I have avoided taking screen real estate from the map in favor of context-sensitive (tap and hold) menus, but the advent of the GPS info panel sort of shattered that dream, so maybe it's time to add a toolbar.

Originally Posted by insert_nick View Post
Some examples of these shortcuts might be:
(Favorites) - Ala Google Maps, tap it and you get a list of common addresses you use.
(Map to from GPS Location) - So it can map to an address from where you are with just a few touches.
(Map from Address to Address) - With easy access to favorites.
You can tap-and-hold on anywhere on the map and download a route to that location from your current location. As for "Favorites": I have wanted a tap-browsable location selector in Maemo Mapper for some time. The existing text-completion is just not usable enough, especially with the maemo bug(?) that requires you to use the D-Pad to actually select a completion. I'll get to it someday...