> On Feb 24, 2019, at 1:25 PM, Henrik B A <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 8:40 PM Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Would those be referenced by planned dives? Or do you really mean
> "unreferenced", i.e. you create a dive site, save the dive file and quit the
> app, and then later add a dive at that site?
> Just making sure I understand the model you are proposing.
>
> Create a dive site, quit the app, do a dive, log it, attach it the dive site
> to the dive. Nothing related to the "dive planner" as such. This is part
> of what I mean with dive sites as a first class citizen.
Thanks for the clarification. I thought that's what you meant.
I think a reasonable logic here would be that each dive site has a flag that
says "auto created" (for example when downloading from a dive computer with
GPS) or "manually created" (like in your example).
And the auto created ones could be purged if unreferenced. That should deal
with most of my concerns while still allowing your use case.
> I might even research some dive sites weeks or months before a trip, and then
> use that as a base for navigating to the dive sites when I get there to go
> diving.
Makes sense.
> The issue with not pruning unreferenced dive sites is that over time you
> might accrue a lot of garbage in your dive file. E.g., whenever you dive with
> a Garmin Descent or similar dive computer (there are none right now) that
> store GPS data, that creates a new dive site. Typically I then switch to the
> existing one if I have been at this site before, which creates an
> unreferenced site. Having all of those accumulate over time might be annoying.
>
> I see the point, but as of now very few dive computers have that feature.
> After a basic, simple dive site database is in place, we can use that to
> suggest (or automatically choose) the correct dive site for the user based on
> GPS position.
I really hope that the GPS feature becomes much more common. The Garmin really
is NOT a great dive computer, but there are now a number of us who use it as
backup DC simply because of the GPS feature. It's just so neat to have that
information without needing to mess with a phone or anything else.
/D
(also resent as I missed the missing Cc)
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