Doug,  I think you’ve described things in a way that I personally would like. 
Preserve my existing dive sites with my naming and description but allow me to 
import other dive sites.  Your description sounds logical.  I ran this by a non 
diver who logs other info (whiter water rivers) and he also thought of a 
similar approach when he was collating info from others.  

...Hartley

> On Apr 11, 2019, at 7:01 PM, Chirana Gheorghita Eugeniu Theodor 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hmmm. SSI has a online divelog and when I put my dives into I select Country 
> first and after that I think it scans for all other fields that already match 
> country and presents me with a dropdown with region and after that for Region 
> all dive sites so I can pick one from existing or create a new one.  Dive 
> buddy is only for me after that and not searched globally.
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 00:53 Hartley Horwitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Robert Helling <[email protected]>
>>> To: Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Doug Junkins <[email protected]>, 
>>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>> Bcc: 
>>> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:13:35 +0200
>>> Subject: Re: Exporting dive sites as XML
>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>> this is really a tough one. Let’s keep in mind in which direction this (if 
>>> it takes off at all) might go to: Rather than sharing your own dive sites 
>>> between a few of your own log files (or maybe with your wife or your close 
>>> friends), this whole dive site management becomes really powerful as soon 
>>> as some big dive site collections are created (like all dive sites in a 
>>> country, a continent or even globally) with the collections shared 
>>> essentially between all Subsurface users.
>> 
>> This is exactly how I would like things to go -- I'd gladly share my dive 
>> sites in my usual dive locations, but I'd really like to get a copy of 
>> someone else's dive sites for a trip to a location I've never been.  That 
>> would be really powerful. 
>>  
>>> …….
>>  
>>> These collection could also be used to figure out where it is actually 
>>> worth going to. Another aspect is of course language: We might want to 
>>> remember the langue of a dive site description so that I can decide to only 
>>> import those that are in a language that I can understand.
>> 
>> I'd import the dive sites in my personal log, even if they aren't in my 
>> native language. If it is a dive site that I actual use, I'd probably 
>> translate or re-write the description to fit my needs.
>>  
>> ….Hartley 
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