I live outside my trapNZ project area. So when I (A) fire up TrapNZ at home (and its not already in the background), or (B) mistakenly push the “Centre on my location” button (in the centre or the bottom of the screen) I get either a blank map or a gray grid with “OFFLINE” in each cell. It’s quite a pain to zoom out, pan, and then zoom in to get back to displaying the project area.
I recently introduced a new team member to TrapNZ. He was completely perplexed by this behaviour, so much so that he declared the app “useless”.
Can I suggest the following:
- Add an outline map of NZ behind the map tiles. That should help with navigation in cases (A) and (B).
- When the TrapNZ app fires up (and it is not already in the background), check if the current location is outside the geographic bounding box of the current project. If it is, then use that bounding box for the initial map display. This will help with (A).
- As an alternative to (2), use the map bounds from the previous session for the current project.