Add a distance measuring tool

[Vainnor]

Your Vatsim CID

1652726

What do you suggest?

Many other maps such as VATSpy and VATprism have the ability to draw measuring lines that you can use to figure out how far someone is from you.

Why do you need that?

Currently it is very hard if possible to gage distance. It would be nice to be able to double click and drag and the site draw a line with a distance read out. On other maps I use this to gage departure spacing when ATC is offline. Additionally it is nice to have another way to see how far aircraft are from the airport ect.

Alternatives

No response

Additional info

It can be as simple as this: (From VATSpy)

Or it could be like this: (From VATPrism)

The one from VATprism is Control Click & Drag and then after you draw the line it stays on the map.

I think a good middle ground could be to have a setting for it or somehow have the ability to pin lines and even have multiple lines at once.

Thanks for your consideration!

Validation

• [X] I have searched for other requests and didn't found any alike
• [X] I have also checked roadmap, and this is not planned

[Nyan404]

Agree, good idea

[bencodes07]

+1

[Adrian2k]

Was going to suggest this until I found this issue. So +1 from me.

[RoboFun01]

I would love this! +1 fro, me too