bluerobotics
mini-widget: display a location
Problem to solve
Sometimes it's useful to track/record the numerical values of a location, rather than just visualising its position on a map, and sometimes locations are not geo-referenced. Currently this is awkward to do, because it requires multiple separate mini-widgets and the data may not be in the desired display format (e.g. see #1326).
Desired approach
A mini-widget with support for
- any valid sources of location data
- MAVLink / NMEA / etc
- vehicle location, control station location, etc
- common display formats
- latitude, longitude
- UTM
- local x, y [,z] (probably with support for metric vs imperial)
- position validity/accuracy
- colour or opacity could potentially be used to indicate when a position estimate is uncertain, or older than a threshold time
Additional context
- Lat, Lng Issue as part of a broader VGI discussion
- UTM request and discussion
Prerequisites
- [X] I have checked to make sure that a similar request has not already been filed or fixed.
I would add GPS position estimation as well, like BlueOS GPS widget.
Having a button to mark/save a given position, give it a label, could be super handy for both ROV and Boat...
@vshie this issue is focused around a display widget - adding a button for location tagging/annotation/logging functionality seems more relevant to #84 / #594, although you could also suggest it as its own widget :-)
No worries - just don't want your good idea to get lost in the weeds! :-)