On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> wrote: > > Scenario. I keep doing boat dives to the same sites (we'll be in Palau the > fourth time this fall and I bet we'll go back to the Blue Corner and many > other sites we've been to frequently). I use the phone app to track GPS > points, anyway, and download them. > Now I have a site with no name and a GPS location (well, I won't because I > always do names first before downloading GPS, but Linus and some others do > it the other way around). > So now Subsurface showme that this was really close to the Blue Corner and > I say "right, I remember, we dove the Blue Corner today". > > Now if I want a new location because it's a different boat anchor point, I > completely type in Blue Corner and save that. New site, same name, close > by the others. > > Or I just want to pick the existing one (or one of the existing ones, I > have three distinct anchor points for Blue Corner because they are > different dives, depending where you start). And I get the GPS coordinates > from that dive site that I picked. > > The interesting question is "assuming I have GPS data, assuming I remember > the site was also called Blue Corner, assuming that site is in Hawaii, > should the Blue Corner from Palau even be offered as completion"? > > I'm leaning towards "no" (not knowing how easy or hard that would be for > Tomaz to do). At the very least it should be marked differently in the > completion list if possible... maybe the completion list could add > distances if both the current dive site and the completion dive site have > GPS locations. > > And here I go again, coming up with fun ideas to distract Tomaz from doing > what he's working on :-(
I agree > > After talking to Tomaz in a hangout I have learned that that is very hard > to do on the completer (as that is just text based). But of course if the > user has Marble enabled then they can see the dive sites nearby on the > globe. Of course. It's impossible making a user comfortable with the above choices only via a text autocompletion. Using Marble for UI interaction open other completely different scenario/interactions I guess... We should use Marble as visual aid while adding new dives. PS When I add dives, I'm of the "gps-before-name" party -- Davide https://vimeo.com/bocio/videos _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface