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Zverik / every_door

A dedicated app for collecting thousands of POI for OpenStreetMap
https://every-door.app
ISC License
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Searching for a location #281

Open arthurlutz opened 2 years ago

arthurlutz commented 2 years ago

Hi, the app looks awesome, thanks for contributing it to the OSM community !

I have a particular use case : I map from a device that has it's GPS location service broken and only a wifi connexion. When trying to use every-door, I can't move to my location by using the map since it's zoom is blocked, being able to search a location would be awesome.

For the "sometimes-offline" use case I usually start from a location where I have some wifi, download some data, go walking and mapping around then come back and move to a next area.

I understand that this use case is probably a minority one so feel free to say that it's not a priority for the app but I wanted to take the time to describe it.

Zverik commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the report. I'm indeed thinking of adding a search. The current idea is to show the field when the map is scrolled 5+ km away from the GPS location, or where there haven't been a location for 10 seconds, and there is no data downloaded at the current location.

deevroman commented 2 years ago

I will add another example of use.

The geoposition on android in my district at the first start constantly sends me to the village 10 kilometers away from me. Often I have to wait a couple of tens of seconds to get a GPS location, and not an approximate one from Google services. Plus, Every Door has a fairly large polling interval of the location, and a limit on the minimum zoom(upd: fixed in 3.0), which together is very annoying.