> On Apr 17, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Doug Junkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 17, 2019, at 1:47 PM, Willem Ferguson 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2019/04/17 21:04, Doug Junkins wrote:
>>> It is not clear to me why atmospheric pressure and dive mode were chosen as 
>>> special fields that get added to the location label on the Notes tab as 
>>> opposed to other fields like water and air temperature. Are those really 
>>> the most important fields for the majority of Subsurface users to be 
>>> treated uniquely?
>> 
>> They are two critical values for interpretation of the ceiling in the dive 
>> profile and therefore play an important rôle in assessing the safety of a 
>> dive. Temperature is not (well, unless you are diving at very low 
>> temperature). It is an attempt to maximise the ability information of the 
>> display to provide information relating to the safety of the dive.
>> 
>>> I am not sure the Location label should be overloaded to display these 
>>> other fields, to be honest.
>> 
>> If you have an alternative suggestion of where to display this information, 
>> please bring this up. That is the purpose of this discussion. We must assume 
>> there will be different points of view but are trying to get a consensus 
>> that accommodates as many as possible of the different types of divers that 
>> use Subsurface. Makes sense?
> 
> That does makes sense. My thought is that if those two values are critical to 
> creating a safe dive profile, then they should both be included in the dive 
> profile title. In the second screenshot, you show the dive mode in the title 
> as “GF 45/70 (Open Circuit)”. Could you instead include both the atmospheric 
> pressure and the dive mode in the profile title like “GF 45/70 (Open Circuit, 
> 980 bar surface pressure)” to keep the information where it is most relevant, 
> instead of overloading the label for the dive location? For users that do not 
> have the surface pressure populated in the dive planner or from their 
> computer, the second part of the profile title could be eliminated.

Sorry — that should be “GF 45/70 (Open Circuit, 980mbar surface pressure)” as a 
suggested dive profile title. Units matter.

-Doug
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