Too easy to miss the right node #1153
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Author: borisc Replying to [ticket:1153 ColinMarquardt]:
To my opinion, track layers should be uneditable by default, however there should be a switch to make them editable (e.g. right click in the layer dock, or a toggle icon in the layer dock) |
Author: LonelyPixel What do we need GPX nodes for at all? Is there some use for them to be nodes? Visible and with interaction? To me, the line between those points is totally enough to know. If you make the track layer unclickable, don't forget the photos that are inserted on that layer. This is another problem right now: You cannot select a photo if there's ~ 20 GPX nodes right at the same place, because you made one point per second and remained there for awhile to get a more precise position, or to take that photo, etc. |
Author: ColinMarquardt I actually like seeing the nodes, because it reminds me of my traveling speed at that point. I go like "Oh, that thick node cluster is where you changed the tire tube, and there is that steep incline following... wait, wasn't there a bench right at the corner? Ok, put it on the map". So these nodes are not completely useless to me. |
Author: ColinMarquardt Replying to [comment:2 LonelyPixel]:
I now see that you have a patch making GPX nodes unclickable - assuming photos are unaffected, great :) |
Author: koying Solved by read-only layers, isn'it... |
Reporter: ColinMarquardt
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 1.53pm, Sunday, 7th September 2008]
On the German mailing list, someone mentioned that it seemed to him that Merkaartor was producing more unconnected ways than other editors.
I can imagine this being the case, since if you have a GPX track loaded, it's very easy to hit a GPX node instead of a node belonging to a drawn way (which would then connect a new way to an existing way).
There are several options how we could improve that: let the GPX track have a much lower snapping distance, i.e. don't let the GPX nodes be as magnetic as a drawn node. Another way could be to color connected nodes of a way differently (possibly only of selected ways if it gets too much visually). The most intrusive way would be an option to have the GPX layer unclickable at all.
There are probably even more possible solutions I don't think of now...
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