Suggestion: Eastbound and Westbound on trips map

[iamtheari]

My apologies if this is the wrong place or if this has been suggested before. I am in North Dakota, a flyover state, and all of the trips I have been able to help with were long-distance eastbound or westbound trips. But since the map color-codes trips by northbound and southbound only, those trips close to a heading of 90 or 270 degrees are hard to decipher without opening them up. I envy the people who can easily see, for example, that there is a request to go from Oklahoma to Texas and a corresponding request to go from Texas back to Oklahoma. It would be really nice if the trip requests map would use different colors for those eastbound and westbound flights. Maybe 316-360 and 0-45 headings would be northbound, 46-135 headings would be eastbound, 136-225 headings would be southbound, and 226-315 headings would be westbound, to make it more obvious which direction each request is going.

[mikegreen]

Hi -
Just saw this thread - Never thought about more than 2 colors...

I can look into it this week and see if we can do it.. Alternatively, if anyone knows PHP and Javascript feel free to take a stab at it Source code is here - https://github.com/mikegreen/pnp_maps/b ... _trips.php

-Mike

[joligario]

I recommend changing the line type rather than color. Otherwise you run the risk of having 6 colors.

I dabble in in PHP/MYSQL. I'll play around with it on my test machine and offer up some code.

[mikegreen]

Yeah, 6 would be rough. I like the line style idea.

If you want access to the database let me know and I can arrange. thanks!

[joligario]

Another thought: We can add an arrowhead to the line for direction if that would make sense. Then you could use your 2 colors for the typical pilot directions of 0-179 and 180-359 which determine the cruising altitudes.

[joligario]

https://github.com/mikegreen/pnp_maps/pull/23

[mikegreen]

Awesome - thanks!

I put it up here to see how you guys like it:
https://pilotsnpaws.org/maps/maps_trips_test.php

[iamtheari]

It looks good to me. Thanks to those who took the time to think about and code a solution to my small frustration!

[mikegreen]

Hey folks -
Just FYI - this is now the standard map functionality when you view the transport map - https://pilotsnpaws.org/maps/maps_trips.php

thanks joligario for the help!

-Mike