> 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 _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
