Search for waypoints

VFRnav Support
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When I search for the NDB VIC (northwest of LIDO/LIPV), it is hard to find in the long list of search results. It is not listed under the abbreviation VIC shown on the map, but only in full as VICENZA. If the controller assigned VIC as the next waypoint, I wouldn’t be able to find it in the list. Therefore three ideas on how the results could be presented better:

  • include the short identifiers in the results list as well (when clicking the NDB the pop-up shows VICENZA NDB VIC, i.e. “VIC” is known).
  • If there is an exact match, those search results should be ranked first. Currently it’s around position 30, because vic is also contained as a substring in many names.
  • Search results are currently sorted alphabetically. Non-exact matches could alternatively be sorted by distance. When doing flight planning, sorting by distance to the most recently added waypoint could also be useful

Regards
Maik

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Hi Maik @user10 :waving_hand:

Thanks so much for your suggestions for improvement :+1:

I’ve just implemented points 1 and 2:

  • The abbreviation for NDB/VOR is now also displayed.
  • The sorting has been adjusted as follows:
    1. Exact matches are at the very top
    2. Matches whose designation or name starts with the search term
    3. All other matches

Thanks for your attentive feedback — comments like this help to further improve VFRnav in detail :slightly_smiling_face:

Happy flying
Hermann

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Very good. Thank you so much for the super-fast implementation. This is perfect for me.

Cheers

Maik