QtLocation map updates

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 28 July 2017 at 02:12, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> it does this in a similar way to the Marble Globe class ATM.
>> if zoomed out enough, it calculates a "small-circle" and many dives
>> can be selected by a single click over a single one of them.
>
> Yeah, the approach "works" for dives that are really close to each
> other (ie basically the same dive site), but it's really annoying to
> use and does horribly badly at "select all dives in Palau" or
> something like that.
>

yep, for the current method to work one needs to zoom out almost
completely, so that all the Palau dives become a single flag.

> So I was hoping you'd say "yeah, with the new map tool I could easily
> just rubber-band instead".
>
> But not a biggie,
>

i guess on a later stage we can add support for a rectangular /
circular selection tool, of sorts.

lubomir
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