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Support => Troubles & Questions => Topic started by: claesh1 on November 06, 2021, 10:19:18

Title: Search address without tap and hold?
Post by: claesh1 on November 06, 2021, 10:19:18
I turned off the "search address by tap and hold" option because I triggered it often involuntarily. But I can't find another way to invoke the same feature. It would be convenient if I could search for adress at the crosshair by click of a button, or similar. Is it possible somehow?
Title: Re: Search address without tap and hold?
Post by: michaelbechtold on November 06, 2021, 11:37:11
Make it a proposal at https://help.locusmap.eu/topics
Title: Re: Search address without tap and hold?
Post by: Andrew Heard on November 07, 2021, 22:46:55
At present long-tap is either ignored, or displays the address (settings > controlling > tap & hold. I use the latter. But a more general system could be long-tap > context menu > whole range of menu options, not just address.
Title: Re: Search address without tap and hold?
Post by: claesh1 on November 09, 2021, 21:56:32
Ok. But my problem is the opposite. I trigger tap and hold by mistake when I move around on the map. So I turn it off.  But once in a while I want to bring up the address, and there seems to not be any other way. It would be useful if a button could trigger this and not just a gesture. Just like you can zoom with gesture or with buttons for example.
Title: Re: Search address without tap and hold?
Post by: Andrew Heard on November 10, 2021, 02:31:16
as michaelbechtold said, create a suggestion topic
Title: Re: Search address without tap and hold?
Post by: Tapio on November 10, 2021, 10:15:21
Only if you are a Tasker nerd - that's possible. Send latlon to a Tasker script, retrieve address from Latlon (there's different APIs that can be used, I prefer nominatim osm), display/copy/... it. I'm doing numerous of such things but it's hard to share, my infrastructure grew, is a bit complex.
If you are a nerd in that field, you'd find necessary scripts in r/tasker.
Title: Re: Search address without tap and hold?
Post by: Menion on November 14, 2021, 08:51:16
This is really interesting topic.
We already have prepared a server-side feature for creating a completely new "long click" experience: "What is here", where should be united address search + search in nearest interesting poi categories.
This brings me close to removing this "disable long click" option.

And here comes a question: how does this happen @claesh1 that you trigger long click by accident? The slow device with lags? How we may solve this? Increase time necessary to trigger "long click" may help here?
Title: Re: Search address without tap and hold?
Post by: Henk van der Spek on November 19, 2021, 21:52:40
Even in the search for online adresses we have the tick box: search around cursor location. Maybe some wildcard in the search field could give the adress of the location.

On second thought: we normally hike with zoom level 16. Two taps up to level 18 gives me readable street names. So what is the real problem/question? For sharing your location there are other options.