Forcing location in My location

The RainViewer button takes you to your GPS position. This is quite a different functionality especially given RainViewer doesn’t save locations.

But i think, you’re asking of a button to center to the place selected prior to the two-finger swipe. You’re not asking for a button to center on your actual GPS location??

I have found it’s very important to make sure we are talking about the same thing other wise we can spend days talking and find we’re on different pages.

Adding a button to center to the save place location (not GPS location) and to reset the zoom is very easy but I don’t add features in unless there is an overwhelming reason to, i.e., a lot of users must want it and agree, with good reason, on the functionality. So we need more buy-in.

I do this to keep Flowx simple - otherwise it’ll be full of options and buttons. When I started Flowx I used to add most feature users asked for. It ended up in a mess that was hard to maintain, support and develop. So I rewrote it and removed many features. After I released the re-written version very few users complained about the removed features suggesting they were not used.

A good example of this was swiping on the graph. I noticed I never swiped on the graph, so I removed it - it was amazing, absolutely no one complained.

So I can add the feature easily, but the bigger question is whether we should. Or is the space the button will take up better used for something else???

Keep it super simple.

Cheers, Duane.

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