On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 23:41:31 UTC+1, Gavinx wrote:
>
> There is an altitude widget you can configure from the Configure Screen 
> menu.
>
> there are also contour maps that provide this information.
>
>
> If you are talking about selecting a specific point to get what is 
> considered "extended information" you have the wrong program.
> There are many advantages of being able to select a point to get extended 
> information but it is a question of how big the files would become - 
> presumerably. 
>
> On Friday, 2 February 2018 22:34:59 UTC+11, Marek Zaridian wrote:
>>
>> I have seen this feature in Locus. I think that altitude value visible in 
>> context menu would be very useful and also "not-so-difficult" to implement. 
>> OsmAnd gives precise informations about altitude, ascent, descent under 
>> route/navigation panel, so why not placing alti value in the context menu? 
>> As an user of multisport tracker with barometric altimeter I see this 
>> feature very helpful in calibrating altitude before and during activities.
>>
>
Locus is "grabbing" the altitude from separately downloaded height data. I 
can imagine OsmAnd could do the same - meaning it would work only if you 
download the height data. If the contour plugin works, it means the data 
are available.

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