Get waypoint details near by my position

[homipc]

From offered actions is more wanted "Start navigation to:" for me. But even more I'd like action: "warning on POI". I often use POI in different situations:

1. NAVIGATION: I need only some navigation command (not all navigation), where is important change direction etc.
2. BIKE AUDIO TRAINING: now Locus allows only time or distance warnings, but I need warning in the exact location. I set POI in this location and I obtain text to speach warning.
3. GEOCACHING
   etc.
   Thanks for this the exact location.
   Homi

[Falcosc]

Thank you for this idea. I would call it "get closest POI"

Navigation commands could be difficult because Locus API rely on requesting information, we have to check POI distance regularly.
I could implement a "search the closest POI filtered by something"
Then you could make the following POIs:

• Attention: go left
• Attention: get water
• Attention: last restaurant on track
  And then we could filter these POIs by name "Attention"

Tasker would look like this
execute every 5 minutes:

• Action: Get Closest POI. Filter "Attention: *"
• If closest_poi != last_poi_notification AND poi_distance < 1000m
• • text to speech: poi_description
• • last_poi_notification = closest_poi (save last poi notification prevent double notification if you are in notification range)

But there is one small problem, if you travel 2000m in 5 minutes you may never get close to 1000m range:

• 11:00 you are 1200m south away from POI
• 11:02 you are 200m south away from POI
• 11:05 you are 1300m north away from POI

If checks run at 11:00 and 11:05 you will never below 1000m and miss your tasker notification.

Would this help for your navigation and audio training?

[Falcosc]

@homipc would a solution based on "get POI near to current position" be good enough for you? Then I would like to implement something like this.

[Falcosc]

I did start to create a feature which finds point near to current location.

It will have radius and name filter.
And to prevent duplicate notification it will have an option to exclude a list of point ids.

[Falcosc]

For NAVIGATION you can set up how many notifications will get calculated on a track https://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:user_guide:functions:navigation:settings#advanced_settings. If medium does create to many commands and low not enough, then you need to look at POI Alert

For BIKE AUDIO TRAINING You can use POI Alert for your points: https://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:user_guide:functions:poi_alert

GEOCACHING you can use POI Alert or try increasing notification frequency https://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:user_guide:functions:guidance#target_notifications

@homipc
Is there anything which could be improved there? It would be quite easy to get points near current location over api to do anything with them.