Enable a small nav map with current window rectangle

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What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?

Proposing an enhancement to toggle a small navigation window at one corner of 
the screen, which displays a thumbnail of available tiles in miniature, at the 
designated zoom level. For instance, one could have a 300x300px dockable window 
similar to GIMP's navigation window, which could default to showing zoom=10 (or 
so) tiles. Allow the user to pan within that and then size a superimposed 
rectangle within that window to change the zoom level of the main screen. 
Enable a checkbox to keep this mini window centered about the center of the 
main screen.

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?

Permit the user to determine if any tiles are missing within an offline 
(downloaded) region. Additionally assists the user (who is zoomed far in) to 
not become 'lost' and necessitate zooming out to determine their location.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ler...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2012 at 4:16

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Here's a quick screenshot of the GIMP implementation of this. It's not ideal 
but will give an idea. GIMP makes the nav window always show what the main 
window shows; in this enhancement request, I'm meaning that the nav window will 
show whatever zoom level the user specifies, and inside of it, a rectangle that 
depicts the borders of what the user is actually viewing in the main window. 
There would need to be a check so that what the nav window shows always 
includes the entirety of what the main window has, or more.

Original comment by ler...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2012 at 6:21

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• nav-window.jpg

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I support that request, very useful when pou prepare a trip at the country 
level.

Original comment by michel.r...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2013 at 9:36