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Bunch of observations from newbie #58
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Thanks for the feedback - and yes, all suggestions, observations and also criticism are very welcome :)
This was deliberately added for the following use cases:
I've never had the need to trim the path, I usually click or ctrl-click what's presented in the dialog. Although I agree that leading and trailing spaces on filenames should be rare.
No, you don't have to exit and restart. You want to load a different file? just load it and select "replace", then you just have the data from the second file. You want to start again without any data? just select all and delete range, then you have no data loaded any more (but you haven't edited any files).
This would only give you the lat/long, elevation and name. Better is to use the "Duplicate point" option to get all the fields, then edit the new point as you wish.
You have the choice of SRTM 3" or SRTM 1", these are often (I know, not everywhere) accurate. If you have examples of coordinates which give you twice the elevation than reality, I'd say that must be somewhere very unusual (for example, extremely steep cliffs by the sea). If you mean that GpsPrune reports twice the "climb" than other sources for a given range, that's probably your altitude tolerance setting. Comparing with "reality" it's probably track quality.
Not replacing your carefully measured or entered data without asking you is a very deliberate design. You don't need sed though, just use Range -> Delete field values. Then you can selectively delete the values you want to replace, rather than being unable to prevent replacement.
That might be what you (currently) want in your description field, but seems a strange assumption to make that everyone wants exactly the same information as you do. I'm glad you've found an easy way to fill it in though.
Really? Clicking anywhere should deselect the current range? What if I'm just moving the map around or looking at a point's details, while wanting to keep the current range selected? How could I use the "cut/move range" function? Again, please don't take my feedback on your feedback negatively - you raise some good points, but for some of them there are good reasons for the way those features work right now. |
That's a good suggestion - even though many people won't want the filename to be the same as the name field (the name could be really long with spaces in, for example), a suggestion would be better than nothing.
That's a bit of a weird place to have a save function, because that popup menu is for selecting the source of the data, not to perform file operations.
It seems that the concepts used by GpsPrune (always a single track with multiple segments) are not the same as those used by "GPS Track Editor" (each file held separately with separate tree structures). Personally I think that if I wanted such a complicated tree structure I'd use a real GIS program.
That makes sense to me, doesn't it to you? If I select the range I want, then it shows me the distance and climb/descent, if I don't select a range then it doesn't. Are you suggesting that I always have two ranges selected, the one I selected myself and also a second range from the start of the track (not the start of the segment or the current day) to the current point? I'd find that confusing. Using shift-click to expand the current range is an easy way to do this, just Ctrl-Home and then shift-click on any point.
There isn't a way to "zoom" the altitude panel, if that's what you mean, and there isn't a way to pan a zoomed altitude panel to show the bits which are now beyond the screen. You can stretch it vertically by moving the separator, and stretch it horizontally by making the window bigger.
If you're manually typing filenames in, you may prefer to use the tab-autocomplete from the console when launching GpsPrune.
You mean like the button "Show webpage" in the Help -> Help ?
I don't find Ctrl-Home much more inconvenient than Home. And certainly more convenient than going to the Track menu and searching for a menu item in there. You can also use the slider right underneath the "Track details".
That seems inconsistent with the previous suggestion that just "Home" always goes to the track start. But it's an interesting suggestion, I'll try it out.
Ctrl + left/right jumps by a single point, as you know, which I find really convenient.
It should do, if there's one in particular which bothers you then just post which one.
That seems inconsistent to me, I haven't seen other programs do this so it's definitely not what I would expect to happen. Clicking to mark the start of a selection and shift-clicking to set the end of the selection is something done elsewhere in lots of places (even Notepad).
Yes, if the start of the selection isn't already defined then it will take the start of the track.
Hitting "Escape" shouldn't unselect the range, because as you noted above that's not its usual function. Range -> Select none does that. |
Hello,
I just used GP to slice a GPX into multiple files for a trip, and have the following constructive suggestions (it's clearly not meant as criticism):
SLICING
GENERAL
MENU
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Cheers,
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