As I drive a lot for my Job I sometimes have to travel long distance and today I got sent to leeds and once I’d finished my Job I looked at drone scene for places to grab a quick flight on my way home. As it transpired as soon as I opened drone scene it started to rain
But on my drive back I thought it would be pretty damn cool if you could say put in 2 post codes and based on the locations already added on the map it could suggest places not to far off the route between the two points.
Or give you a list of places between point A and point B.
Sort of like a drone route planner.
Not sure how difficult this would be, but would be a fantastic addition to the site.
I finish up in Leeds and plan to drive home before setting off I open up drone scene to check for places to fly.
I could use my current location as my A point and then use my home address as my B point. And drone scene would then suggest places to fly along my route home as potential stop off locations. So I guess that would be as the car drives not as the crow flies.
Being able to filter by location type as well would be a cool option.
Yeah not sure it would be possible without drone scene being able to be used like a satnav.
Unless you could maybe draw like a tunnel from point A to point B on the map and any locations captured in the drawn line the locations coordinates are exported to google maps and you can arange them into a route maybe
I think it’s nice idea, and I for one would benefit from such a feature. But equally appreciate the effort to implement something like this. As far as I can tell, Drone Scene uses Reverse Geocoding, taking a place or address inputted by the user, which is turned into coordinates and located on the map.
What you are suggesting is adding Routing, which is a whole different ball game. At basic level, this allows software to understand “what is a road”, whether it single or multi-lane, one or two way, roundabouts, exits, private or public, free or toll, speed limits, hazards, road closures, etc, etc, etc. Without Routing, the road is just a polyline on a map - and the app would have no context or understanding of navigating from A to B.
I have written multiple In Car navigation apps over the years (Java and also C#). Reversing Geocoding is relatively simple in comparison to Routing. Mind you, Drone Scene does use mapbox. And I have been using their Routing api for many years (recently updated to Navigation 2.0). That said, I can already see Rich face-palming over the work involved in implementing such a request
If it were as the crow flies, with a search area of say 10 miles off that straight line, it would probably cater for most journeys? That is of course unless you have a habit of taking the scenic route over the direct route
When I read that I thought about my drive from Morecambe to Anglesey in a few weeks and the 10 deep wet miles either side of that direct line. How about extending the ruler functionality of DS to draw a series of lines with DS listing places 10 (or a selectable number of) miles either side of the lines.
In the Anglesey example, that’d roughly be Morecambe to Lymm, Lymm to Chester, Chester to Anglesey.
