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Description
Dear Santa :-),
It would be great to be able to use a ruler on the Meshviewer to calculate distances between nodes or any potential node sites which do not have a mesh link yet. Something like what this page provides: https://map.meurisse.org/
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently it's a bit cumbersome to switch back and forth between a meshviewer map and https://map.meurisse.org for instance for planning potential nodes. Especially for 60GHz links the achievable distance is often pretty strict/limited, but (sort of) well defined:
https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/chart4_220326.pdf
https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/ptp_210150.pdf
It would be great to be able to use a ruler directly on a meshviewer map to check the feasibility of a potential link.
Describe the solution you'd like
- add a ruler icon next to the coordinate picker
- once clicked allow adding lines on the map and display the total distance similar to what map.meurisse.org does
- once clicking the ruler icon again then the drawn lines should be cleared
Describe alternatives you've considered
An alternative (or addition?) would be:
- add a circle icon next to the coordinate picker
- once clicked and after clicking anywhere on the map again, open a box (similar to where the coordinate picker has its options on the left side) with a field "Radius" where one can set a distance in meters
- once the distance is set, a ring with the selected radius is drawn around the previously clicked point on the map
Yet another alternative of the alternative:
- simply add a draw circle option with a radius setting to the settings box of the current coordinate picker
Edit:
Additionally, there could also be two fields for "aperture angle" and "direction angle", to turn the circle into pizza slices. Which would be handy for sector antennas.