njohnston
commented
5 years ago I realise it's not exactly what you're looking for, but if you want to quickly assess distances, have you tried the radius ruler? Select "Configure screen" and enable "Radius ruler".
You can then tap the widget to display circles indicating various distances, and can also measure the distance between your current position and any point just by tapping, or measure the distance between two arbitrary points by tapping both places simultaneously.
It would be nice to have the option to show regularly spaced grid lines (UTM for example) like many topographical maps have. For hiking use, distances are rather important and it is difficult to quickly assess distances with the small scale bar at the bottom of the screen (the screen is roughly 10 times longer than the scale bar on my phone). With grid lines you get a sense of distances much faster. To avoid misunderstanding of the grid spacing between the different zoom levels, the spacing should be something like (0.1), 1, 10, 100 km.