Hello everyone !

[Latcho drom]

This first thread is for intoduce myself.
I'm a french sailor and I use Opencpn (a great opensource navigation software)
As a SAR crewmember, Opencpn doesn't correspond at the moment at my special needs in term of search pattern.
What's a search pattern? A predefined route that have to be transported at a starting waypoint.(datum)
I just discovered with great interest RouteConverter today. I'm really interested by the "drag and drop" function.
I have opened my route (.gpx), I have selected all, and drag the first waypoint in another place and ... it works ! magik !!!
But I would like to know how can I drag the route exactly to a reference waypoint.
I have no window to indicate the position of the cursor when I do that...
I tried to change the coordinates of the first one but the linked waypoints don't change accordingly.
Also we work with degrees minutes and seconds, it's a minor prob (many converter to decimal everywhere...)
I have to read all the thread to be able to explain my needs in a better manner...
So... That's a great tool!!!
congrats!
Jean Paul

[kumo]

Hi Jean Paul - welcome at this forum!

Yes, a window with coordinates of the cursor position would be helpful to set points at open sea.

Remember that the map window is a separate Google Maps window.
I don't know if Google Maps can give a feedback of the present cursor position.

Let's wait for a comment from Christian.

[routeconverter]

I just discovered with great interest RouteConverter today. I'm really interested by the "drag and drop" function.
I have opened my route (.gpx), I have selected all, and drag the first waypoint in another place and ... it works ! magik !!!

Hi Jean Paul,

thank you, actually that was hard work and a lot of user complaints

But I would like to know how can I drag the route exactly to a reference waypoint.
I have no window to indicate the position of the cursor when I do that...

There are experimental features in Google Maps Labs that show the LatLng information when you press the Shift keys. Would that help?

I tried to change the coordinates of the first one but the linked waypoints don't change accordingly.

When you double click into a cell of the position list table, only the corresponding row is selected. From a user interaction design perspective it doesn't make sense to keep the other row selected then. And for your use case that means that the user would lose the overview which rows are affected by moving them relatively to a reference point.

Also we work with degrees minutes and seconds, it's a minor prob (many converter to decimal everywhere...)

That's a minor problem to enhance RouteConverter to detect some 53 23' 45'' format.

I have to read all the thread to be able to explain my needs in a better manner...
So... That's a great tool!!!
congrats!

Thank you. I'm not sure how and if your use case can be solved without disturbing the existing functionalit. So if you come up with an idea: please explain it here.