[Users] Possible improvements in QField

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Matthias,
thanks for your reply.

Il 29/05/2017 06:31, Matthias Kuhn ha scritto:
> On 5/24/17 5:16 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

>> * when clicking on "Back", one could exit the app, possibly also loosing
>> data: can this be prevented somehow?
> Yeah, this is really annoying, we would love to have a day or two of
> time to look into this.

OK, let's see if we can find someone interested

>> * moving on a small screen is more difficult than on a desktop one; a
>> button that goes back to the initial (project) extent could thus be useful
> As in "zoom to layer", "zoom to project" ...?

yes

>> * an additional digitizing mode could be to lock the digitizing position
>> to the current GPS position, so the user cannot inadvertently entering
>> unvisited places
> In the pipeline

fine, thanks

>> * (less important) is it possible to save a track directly inside QF?
> Connected followup to the previous one but not yet scheduled.

OK, thanks

>> * adding proprietary (Google, Bing, etc.) layers using the API key, so
>> to be safer from a licensing point of view, and more futureproof
> That should go into the XYZ provider (so it's a QGIS improvement
> actually), correct?

you're right

>> * would it be possible to cache the web services (WMS, possibly others)?
> XYZ provider layers should already be cached automatically.
> For WMS this is a bit trickier because imagery is rendered exactly for a
> given extent and not for tiles.
> So this should be an additional option to treat WMS and request tiles.

I see

Thanks again
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