UDB Waypoint editor
I've just added a new tool to both the SVN repository and the project downloads. It's a simple web page that you can download and use to graphically edit waypoints using Google Maps. A few of us have been using the alpha version for the last couple of months and felt it was ready to share with a wider audience.
You can download the file from the project's featured downloads, udb_waypoints.html or from SVN in the newly created "waypoint_editor" folder under the tools folder. Either way, save the file on your local machine somewhere and then open it with your favorite web browser. From there, you can choose to copy in your own waypoints file, or start with the sample waypoints pattern provided.
Modifying waypoints is pretty simple, either click on an empty space on the map to add a new waypoint, or click on an existing waypoint to edit it. Waypoints can have any of the supported flags assigned to them, set their altitude individually, and have their camera view point set individually. This version of the tool supports both absolute and relative waypoints. When the home waypoint (with the center dot on it) is moved, the tool will try to save your home location as a cookie (or using local storage if your browser is HTML 5 compliant) and restore it the next time you load the page. If you are using the relatively new "FIXED_ORIGIN_LOCATION" option in your waypoints, the tool will automatically use that as your home location.
As with almost everything in this project, your feedback is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Adam Barrow
Update August 25th: Sorry for the confusion with the first version -- I've uploaded version 1.4.1 (check the title of the page to see what version you have) that should work much better. It has been updated to use Google Maps API v3 (v2 seems to be broken for some newer browsers) and I also fixed some issues with cross-browser cookie handling. Thanks again for all your feedback. Please let me know either here or on the UAVdevboard mailing list if you have any other feedback.
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Comment by viky on August 24, 2010 at 9:15pm -
Its alright billu bhaiya, we will wait till it works.Thanks to you and adam , apart from ur busy schedules you r doing a lot for community. Its quite useful tool, so it tempted me to try it at the earliest.
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Moderator Comment by Morli on August 25, 2010 at 2:16am -
Thanks Chris.
The updated ver is now available from google repository. It works and I have tested it in IE, Firefox, and Opera. It is also tested in Safari. Link to download is here, for some reason older version gets downloaded from cache some times and it may not work. The updated version is 31kb size.
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3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on August 25, 2010 at 8:16am -
Adam has updated the version in the SVN repository to 1.4.1 and that works fine for me. Solves all the problems with this version. I expect he'll be posting it in the downloads section soon.
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Comment by Earl on August 25, 2010 at 8:44am -
Nice !
I run win7 and it seams to work fine.
Earl
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Moderator Comment by Morli on August 25, 2010 at 11:09am -
It is in the download section though it does not say so. I run win 7 x86 32 bit and works fine so far.
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Comment by Riccardo Kuebler on August 25, 2010 at 11:13pm -
Adam,
it seems I'm the only one unable to have it working :(
I'm using previous, slightly modified, versions instead. They work well I don't understand why (the latest isn't). Btw. the actual version is working on a pc with W7, but unfortunately this is not the pc I use for those things (XP, sp3, Chrome, Firefox, IE8).
Best regards,
Ric
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