On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:28:45AM +0000, Robert Norris wrote: > > Instead, I did the obvious: I took a series of bearings with a compass > > from waypoints that I created. > > Yeah, old skool! > Pen, paper, ruler, magnetic compass, drawing compass, sextant...
Is there another way in these circumstances? :-) I always carry a high accuracy compass when navigating in mountains for when the batteries fail, or the gps signal disappears... > I assume the feature is too new to appear on Bing aerial imagery. Yes. It was only built last month. OSM is ahead of other maps, of course :-) > Unfortunately IMHO it is not very easy in Viking. > > All the drawing is done in low level GTK drawing C API, and drawing new > things on top of existing view needs careful management of each graphic layer > drawn - especially for dynamic movement of the changing graphics. OK. I hadn't looked at source. Thanks for the background. > I'd say this kind of thing would be more usefully implemented in JOSM as a > plugin - almost surprising there isn't one yet (I can't find one). I have tried to use the josm ruler plugin in the past for something similar, but on that occasion I only had a single bearing. That was on a narrow street with tall buildings blocking the gps signal, so gps tracks were not much use in getting the angle of the street. A simple compass bearing fixed that. Even for that straightforward case, the josm ruler was not very appropriate. I too had expected to find some other josm plugin that supported bearings, but also found nothing. Surely, I can't be the only one using bearings? ael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
