[Suggestion] Configure Slack range in terms of distance, rather than steps

[ryanball]

This is similar to what is on the roadmap, but feel that a value like this would greatly help people who want to make a slack notification for their office!

[timwah]

Do you mean the NUM_STEPS variable defined in terms of distance? It's a little tricky to change because the implementation is mostly from the PokemonGo-Map project, but is doable if we dissect the code more.

[ryanball]

So my understanding is NUM_STEPS determines search distance. Say num steps==5, but I only want to be notified if something is within .25 miles of my location. Yes the search has some waste in it now, but steps aren't very granular

[timwah]

I see, yeah that's a good point. Lots of wasted time searching space that you're not even interested. The notification can be a lot more instantaneous if we just searched explicitly. I can add to the roadmap, great suggestion.

[me0wday]

is there any rough estimate as to what the step and step size means? ie what kind of radius from the point selected the values would be?

[irongollem]

I thought every step is 100m. So 300m is 3 steps, 250m is 3 steps, 200m is 2 steps etc. Its the go API. To implement a meters setting a simple convertion and rounding function has to be done, but this would also require checking A: wether steps or units and B: if units, is it in meters of miles