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Bearing Line and Point Elevation for Navigation

When ski touring or scrambling I generally navigate by picking a target bearing and an a stop elevation where I know to recheck the map and pick a new bearing and end elevation for the next leg. In the middle of each leg I stay on course by monitoring compass direction and elevation on my watch which makes my phone battery last a lot longer and means I stop less and cover more ground. The current compass indicator is almost invisible and as far as I can tell there’s no way to get the numeric heading value. An option that allowed the compass indicator to instead be a line drawn from the current location all the way to the edge of the screen would allow this use case by making it easy to β€œsight” on a distant peak or other landmark. A way to see the current degrees makes it easy to transfer this bearing to a watch or other device. It’s currently possible to long press on a point to find the elevation but this feels clunky and slow. Would be more efficient if there was an option to have this display on the main screen or a tool to get the elevation with a simple tap rather than a long press.

Barry Burton about 1 month ago

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