[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers on touch device: drawing by dragging instead of click

[Jelmer Baas]

Hello,

With the release of OpenLayers 2.11 it's gotten fantastic to deploy to mobile devices (iPhone/iPad/Android tablets). However, our users need to be able to draw accurate lines which is nearly impossible at the moment.

Right now, you start drawing by tapping the screen, removing your finger, moving to where you want the next point without touching the screen, and tap again. If you make a mistake, you'll need to remove the line or node, and try again. 

It would be great if the "swipe" on mobile devices could replace the "mousemove", so that it would move the next node instead of panning the map. 

Of course this would also change when the drawing ends: instead of putting down the node at "mousedown", it would do so at "mouseup".

Are there any plans of changing this drawing behavior for mobile devices? And, does anyone have a suggestion how I could implement this for my site with OL 2.11?  

Thank you,

Regards,
Jelmer Baas
Speer IT B.V.