Allow controlling initial zoom, location, etc. from the command line
jidanni opened this issue · comments
Perhaps allow controlling initial zoom, location, etc. from the command line, like
https://man.archlinux.org/man/viking.1.en
Sorry, but I do not see any usage for that that would justify the costs of development. Like with all other special wishes - unless there is a broad usecase you have to implement it yourself in your own fork.
I'm just saying if the program could be made able to be controlled totally without needing finger input, one could
use it for
- kisok automated displays
- disabled user access (for handicapped)
- rapid viewing of KML etc. compile results
- batch job image production
- a CLI API,,
the possibilities are endless.
Some sort of "live tracking system" like discussed in #337 may come some day, but what you describe is rather a CLI tool which is simply out of scope of GPXSee. Sure, someone could design that on the basis of GPXSee, but the purpose of GPXSee is to be a simple viewer, not a complicated GIS tool (many of which already exist).
Yes, that's all I want to use it as, a quick read-only viewer. It's at the bottom of a makefile as the last step after I produce a kml. In emacs.
I'm thinking of where I would never have to even touch a mouse, or edit a configuration file. I would have everything (settings) I need right there changeable on the command line.
That way it would be super portable, just install and use.
ideas for a workarounds:
- settings that are remembered by gpxsee accross launches could be edited in the gpxsee.conf file prior to launching it -- so a simple wrapper program could be done to automate this.
- unfortunately only the map is remembered right now, not location & zoom. @tumic0 is remembering location & zoom on your radar?
- since gpxsee tries to fit the gpx track given as input, a simple gpx can be made with the location(s) to show.