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A simple app to create georeferences notes.

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direction and distance to the selected point

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commented

I ask you to make it possible to see the direction for the selected point and the distance how much to this point in a straight line calculated through GPS coordinates. there you can roughly navigate how to get to the desired point on the map

commented

Thanks for the feature request, do I get the workflow right?

  1. Select a note on the map
  2. Move the map to somewhere else
  3. See the direction and distance to the selected note from step 1

And also: What is the use case for this, so why would someone wants to see that distance? I'm not so sure right now, if this is a relevant feature for this app.

commented
  • turned on the GPS and the program knows the current position.
  • I want to go to another point. for example, it could be a point in the forest where I picked mushrooms last time and there was a beautiful clearing
  • I select a point from the list or when this point is forwarded to me #60
  • a point on the map opens and there is a button to show the distance and direction to this point
  • the field of clicking on the button moves to the current place where I am by GPS coordinates
  • the screen shows my position on the map and the direction where to go and how much distance to the point

points and places can be not only in the city but also in a place where there are no identification signs and it is difficult to understand how to come to this place again

commented

I think I understand your use case but that's not the scenario this app is made for. GeoNotes really is just an app to take notes and is not meant to provide any navigational features or support for such things. I recommend OsmAnd if you want to create markers/notes on a map and also measure distances.

commented

The points on the map and the orientation between them are very closely related. If there is a point on the map but it's hard for you to find it, it's bad. You need to add the easiest way to find the desired point. now you do not have this method, I hope that in the future it will be possible.

commented

If there is a point on the map but it's hard for you to find it, it's bad. You need to add the easiest way to find the desired point.

I see your point but just to make things clear and maybe adjust your expectations, let me explain the idea of GeoNotes a bit:

Exactly this "navigational behavior" you described is not in the scope of this app. The classical use case of GeoNotes is to go outside (hiking, bike tour, shopping, ...), take notes, come back home and do something with those notes (e.g. add data to OpenStreetMap).
This app is not meant to do the opposite: using notes to find locations while being outside. This is not what this app has been built for and is not a direction this app should develop to. Other apps like OsmAnd (and probably some others as well) are more general purpose or more focused on outdoor activities and therefore support all kinds of use cases, your described scenario included. But that's not what GeoNotes, an app to simply take georeferenced notes, should be.

commented

well, perhaps you will expand the functionality of the program in the future