Travel Maps - having trouble managing, editing and updating the list

strangehorizons wrote on 9/4/2020, 12:28 PM

Not sure if this is a bug or user error - but I am struggling with managing photos on Travel Maps. Firstly, Travel Maps is a really easy way of building paths - and much simpler than Vasco da Gama but ...

If I set up the travel route fine first time - and have the right images in the right place - great BUT as soon as I want to make a change it becomes a problem

1. I cannot find a way of changing the selection of images I might have set with a travel point. I can see the image - and get the option to delete or move the point, but no chance to change the image. This is a real problem if you have multiple images connected to a waypoint

Anyone got a work around or tips on how to choose and change the photos allocated to a waypoint.

2. If I edit one travel map file and then open another - when I place images from the photo tray, it inserts images from the previously opened file. This must be a bug. The work around is to close the whole programme, and restart it each time you want to start a new file. However - if you forget to this, due to issue 1 above you cannot edit the items without deleting a waypoint and reinserting it.

3. If you have built a set of photos in the photo tray, and then close the app and open the route again, all the photos are lost from the tray (BUT still stored with the waypoints). That means you have no idea what images are used with the waypoints already. It would be good to :

a) Show which images in the photo tray have been used in the route (so you know if you're missing any)

b) show the used ones in the photo tray when you reopen the programme (so you know where you left off)

4. The mathematics for routing can get confused. In the example below, the routing continues to make a large loop even though the two points are close to each other. It would be good to be able to do a sharp 'crow flies' if this problem occurs

Any tips or suggestion to address point one above? - and anyone facing similar issues.

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johnebaker wrote on 9/4/2020, 12:37 PM

@strangehorizons

Hi

Item 1 - Delete and add is the only way AFAIK

Item 4 change the route setting shown in the image below

Item 2 and 3 - I do not use Travel Maps in this way, I always close in between sessions/routes

HTH

John EB

 

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