On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 10:21 AM Willem Ferguson < [email protected]> wrote:
> 1) I have never been convinced that writing the dive locations into the > dive log XML is the best solution. > I disagree. The XML is an excellent location for the dive sites, it makes sharing and handling the log so much easier. > 2) One should be able to do dive site management when there is no Internet > access. > Solved by having it all in the same XML file. > 3) If there is a local database of dive sites on my computer, does this > get backed up on the cloud in the same way as the dive log? What would the > recovery options be if I lost my local dive site data? > If the dive sites live together with your dives, there is no problem. > 3) I have on occasion used Internet-based information about dive sites, > but these databases never included my dive sites and therefore has not been > very useful. > Once in a while I've been able to find info about certain dive spots that have been interesting when planning new dives, but I haven't felt the need to connect this to Subsurface (or in my case, MacDive). I have just copied the relevant info (gps, how to get there etc) over to MacDive. > I would love to hear the opinion of divers (such as Henrik) who use dive > site databases more extensively. > I don't, so I haven't got much to tell, I'm afraid :) Henrik
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