Tape measure?

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Tape measure?

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mr_rodge	mr_rodge posted 1/12/2012 2:42:49 PM Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 22, Visits: 70	Hi all, A simple and extremely useful addition to the software would be to have a 'tape measure' tool that could be used to measure the difference between two points. I know it can be done by drawing a route, but if I have already planned my flight and want to know an accurate distance between two points en-route, such as the exact length of a water crossing, I feel something like this would be more useful than the chart scale. Cheers.
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 1/12/2012 4:37:26 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 8.9K	I agree it would be useful. How would you envisage such a tool working?
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adhawkins	adhawkins posted 1/13/2012 12:18:17 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 274, Visits: 2.5K	Click a 'Measure' button on the toolbar to enter 'measure mode'. Click on a point, then as you drag the mouse around it gives you distance and bearing from the point you originally clicked (either as a tooltip or in the status bar somewhere). ESC or click the toolbar button again to leave measure mode.
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mr_rodge	mr_rodge posted 1/17/2012 3:23:06 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 22, Visits: 70	What the above says Maybe it could 'snap' to things that aren't normally 'snappable' as well, such as town/village boundaries/centres, shore lines etc etc. Cheers.
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luigi692	luigi692 posted 2/19/2012 6:14:42 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 5, Visits: 21	I agree, this would be an extremely useful tool, especially to find bearing and distance from a VOR or NDB One could for ex hold the <Shift> key while dragging the cursor on the screen and a label would appear to indicate distance and bearing between initial point and cursor position, or on a pop up form like the Google Earth ruler tool. Tags bearing distance measure ruler
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helisharing_dot_co_dot_uk	helisharing_dot_co_dot_uk posted 2/21/2012 6:11:25 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 11, Visits: 17	Agree it would be a nice feature - but with the addition of the ipad shifts become a bit harder to do! Like the idea of - click the measure button, tap the start point, tap the end point line is drawn showing distance and vector - tap the measure button or dbl-tap the line to clear the line. That is remarkably similar functionality to google earth measure.
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