{"id":36,"date":"2007-02-25T19:06:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T18:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2022-03-30T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:55:42","slug":"gps-route-planner-new-release-out-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"GPS Route Planner: New Release Out Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I finally got some time to devote to the route planner and have made a few changes.  It&#8217;s still at the usual URL (<a title=\"www.marengo-ltd.com\/map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marengo-ltd.com\/map\/index.html\">www.marengo-ltd.com\/map\/<\/a>).  The development, or &#8220;beta beta&#8221; release has been removed: it was just too broken on browsers like Safari.  The new version has been tested with Firefox, Safari, Opera and IE7.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of what&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pointer is now a crosshair for more accurate placement.<\/li>\n<li>The Tools menu now allows you to swap between miles and Kms.<\/li>\n<li>The Tools menu now allows <strong>toggling<\/strong> of the lines between waypoints.  Once you&#8217;ve toggled them on, they stay on until you turn them off again, or quit.  They always default to off when you start a new session to avoid unnecessary resource usage.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll notice a PayPal &#8220;donate&#8221; button and Google ads now.  Please, if you use this application, show support for it!<\/li>\n<li>Hovering over a waypoint doesn&#8217;t bring up a balloon.  That was just annoying!  Now, the balloon appears when you click on a waypoint.  There are menu options in the balloon now.  One being &#8220;delete this waypoint&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s now far easier to insert waypoints into an existing route.  Just click on the waypoint immediately before the one you want to insert and select the &#8220;insert&#8221; option.  A new waypoint will be generated exactly halfway towards the next one.<\/li>\n<li>Hovering over a waypoint highlights the corresponding text box in the list in yellow.<\/li>\n<li>Search has arrived!  Notice the &#8220;Search&#8221; box next to the &#8220;Route Name&#8221; box.  Now for the bad news&#8230; it only works in some countries&#8230; and the UK ain&#8217;t one of them.  So you can enter, for example, &#8220;<font size=\"-1\">10 Metrotech Ctr, Brooklyn, NY 11201&#8243; into the box, press enter, and the map goes straight there.  Whereas if you enter &#8220;London&#8221;, you get nothing.  This is because of a some ludicrous copyright\/contractual issues which prevents Google from making this work globally.  So if you are in the UK, ignore this box for the time being.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"-1\">Another menu option in the waypoints&#8217; balloons is the ability to &#8220;Centre map around here&#8221;.  This is useful if you want to zoom in.  Centre first, then no matter how close you zoom, you know that that waypoint will always be on screen.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">Unless we find any bugs, I think this will probably suffice for the free version of this software.  What I shall be working on next is a paid-for version (either subscription-based or one-time fee, not sure yet, but either will be inexpensive) which will allow much more, such as storing of routes in the database, the ability to publish read-only routes to anyone, and the ability to import a ride from your GPS and create a regular route from it.  As usual, if anyone&#8217;s got any ideas for this, let me know.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I finally got some time to devote to the route planner and have made a few changes. It&#8217;s still at the usual URL (www.marengo-ltd.com\/map\/). The development, or &#8220;beta beta&#8221; release has been removed: it was just too broken on browsers like Safari. The new version has been tested with Firefox, Safari, Opera and IE7. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=36\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GPS Route Planner: New Release Out Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}