Measure tool should provide a unit selection option

[trevorwekel]

The buffer tool in the Ajax viewer allows the end user to specify the units for the buffer region. The measure tool should do the same. Some users may find measurement by only miles and kilometers too restrictive.

[trevorwekel]

Patch for measure tool enhancement

[trevorwekel]

See attached patch measurepatch.patch for selecting the measurement units as part of the measure dialog. It was developed against the open source 2.2 branch and should be applicable to trunk.

[trevorwekel]

measure patch with us survey feet

[trevorwekel]

Martin Morrison suggested that I add us survey feet to the patch. See measurepatch2.patch. I have tested it with .Net. If anyone has a php or java setup running, please try it out and let me know if I broke something (bit busy this week to perform three platform testing).

[yangte]

Hi Trevor, I have tested your patch on both PHP and JSP, they all worked well. when do you plan put this enhancement to the trunk? another thing is that when you change the "Measure Units" after some points drawn on the map, the total will not be changed. Would you mean to do this?

[jng]

There is one small bug I've found in measureui.templ

The SetUnits() function has the unit assignment in the wrong order. The line

units = GetParent().GetMapFrame().IsEnglishUnits()? "km": "mi";

should be the other way round.

units = GetParent().GetMapFrame().IsEnglishUnits()? "mi": "km";

This ensures the default unit selection in the Measure UI lines up with whatever choice was set in the viewer options.

Other than that, the patch looks fine

[jng]

Fixed in 2.4 (r6863, r6864, r6865, r6866, r6867) and trunk (r6868)