[OG2404]

I jump in 🙂

France is organized in 27 « régions » (22 for metropolitan France) > 101 « départements » (96 for metropolitan France) > 36681 « communes » (36652 for metropolitan France).

For everyday life, for accuracy and even for a better repartition of « communes », using « départements » is preferred.

BUT when we travel and for leisure activities we usually use « régions » (ex: « I visited my family in Brittany last summer »). I also think most travel guides are organised primarily by « régions » both to simplify access and because they have a stronger cultural identity.

As Pocket Earth is about travelling, I would recommend keeping « régions » as the first subcategory. Adding a second subcategory with « départements » would be a nice touch, but I don’t see it as a priority.

Olivier

[OG2404]

I have issues with the routing system for trekking, mainly because CloudMade screw things and I can’t control that (I thought editing OSM data would help… but it was already correct). Building your own routing system would probably not help a lot.

Here is a suggestion that would solve the situation for me, probably for BuckE here and the issue in this thread as well: allow manual straight line routes in Pocket Earth.

In addition it would allow people to prepare their route in places where there are no tracks/routes or when they do shortcuts.

When adding a Midway destination, you would be able to bypass the routing system and it would put a straight line to connect it to the previous point. You could therefore mix manual straight lines with routes from CloudMade in a single PocketEarth route.

And you could add Directions based on angle (ex: « turn slightly left/right »<45°, « turn left/right » between 45° and 135°, « u-turn left/right »>135°).

Thank you,

Olivier

[OG2404]

That would be a tremendous feature for trekkers! (my main use of Pocket Earth)

For information: OpenCycleMap already uses NASA’s SRTM.

Thank you.

Olivier

[OG2404]

Thank you! This is great news!

Bug:

– « magikmap:// » does work, but the world is zoomed out completely. It should work as a normal starting: resume last view (location, zoom).

First suggestions:

– « ?geolocate » would open on current GPS localisation without changing GPS settings (ie: a quick « locate me » on opening)

– Optional zoom parameter: « &zoom= » with a number going from 1 (completely zoomed out) to 100 (completely zoomed in).

– Open map with favorite: « ?destination= », « ?listing= », « ?pin= », « ?route= » with name of the favorite

– « &category=XX&radius=YY&sort=[name, distance or type] » to search POI with those parameters

If I take my previous examples:

– « Museum in Paris »: magikmap://?destination=paris&category=museum (it would keep default radius and sorting)

– « Restaurants <2km »: magikmap://?geolocate&category=restaurants&radius=2&sort=distance

This would be awesome! Other ideas welcome.

Olivier

[Auteur]

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