Add & Edit marker

[vmicho]

🚀 feature request

Description

Adding a marker with a custom text is currently a long process:

• long press on map
• Marker (this adds a marker with default text on it)
• tap again on the newly created marker

• if there are multiple selectable items in that region (e.g. another marker, guidepost, currently recording track, other track, route, favourite, POI, ...), select the marker from (sometimes long) list

• Edit
• long press on text/double tap text to select a word/whole text. If the whole text is not selected, tap the popup-menu item 'Select All'
• enter new text
• Save

It becomes extremely annoying after a longer trip with dozens of markers.

Describe the solution you'd like

Please add a feature Mark & Edit. Ideally to not take any more screen space, this could be for example activated by long pressing the Marker button. Additionally (similar #16874 ) the whole text could be pre-selected so we can type in a new fresh text.
The above workflow would be simplified to:

• long press on map
• long press on Marker
• type new text
• Save

Would be really appreciated.
Thanks.

[Zirochkabila]

@vmicho It seems that the new variant takes as many steps and time as the one that is currently implemented

[vmicho]

@vmicho It seems that the new variant takes as many steps and time as the one that is currently implemented

No way. We talk here 4 VS 8 steps, with the optional step 4 (select marker form list) can be quite annoying. And step 6 takes way too much time as the text is not yet selected and the virt.keyboard is not active.

[DmitryAlexei]

Good proposition in #16874 to preselect text when you tap 'edit Map marker'.
Anyway, why do you use map markers instead of offline OSM Notes (https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/osm-editing#create--modify-osm-note)?

@vmicho It seems that the new variant takes as many steps and time as the one that is currently implemented

No way. We talk here 4 VS 8 steps, with the optional step 4 (select marker form list) can be quite annoying. And step 6 takes way too much time as the text is not yet selected and the virt.keyboard is not active.

[vmicho]

Well, I've played a bit with notes, but it is more suited for online notes. Offline it is more complicated than the current markers :0

[sonora]

Have you tried using favorites instead of markers?

A solution could be we abandon the separate logic for markers in general, instead make the button "Add marker" to result in adding special type/group of favorite where we reduce things to the absolute minimum number of taps possible, which involves pre-filling all options with a special default.

[vmicho]

Well favorites are good for "favorites" (permanent highlight in map), while markers are great for temporary markings in the map.

[sonora]

Yes. And that's no fundamental distinction, when you think about it: Just that their nature is more temporary - a kind of favorites which you want to be able to create as quickly as possible and lose easily when done with them.