On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 07:27:21PM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> Three issues:
>
> Firstly:
> I add a dive manually, type in the location text box a town like Durban.
> Then I say Apply Changes.
> Then I hit the globe on the right of the Coordinates text box. Dive
> location panel opens.
>
> Given the existing dive site of Durban, then I try a reverse lookup by
> again hitting the globe button:
> and I get:
>
> no reverse geo lookup; geonames returned
> "{"geonames":[]}"
> no reverse geo lookup; geonames returned
> "{"geonames":[]}"
>
> Setting the dive site id on the dive: 4245881241
> no reverse geo lookup; geonames returned
> "{"geonames":[]}"
> no reverse geo lookup; geonames returned
> "{"geonames":[]}"
>
> In addition, it gives a red message bar at the bottom of the screen hat
> says:
>
> Geonames.orgt did not supply reverse lookup information.
>
> I see geonames.org in my browser and the towns or cities (e.g. Durban) I
> use are listed on geonames.org.
>
> I am at a loss about what to do or write for the manual.
AHHHH. No, that's not what we do just yet.
So far all we do is the opposite direction (hence "reverese").
If you HAVE a GPS location, then clicking on the globe will give you
country / town / (and often, but not always) body of water.
We need to disable the button if there is no GPS information.
> Secondly:
> When I manually add a dive and type a town name, several similar-looking
> town names are listed. I select one by double-clicking on the appropriate
> option in the dropdown list of town names. BUT: what is the function of the
> black button with the +? In theory, if I single-click on it, it should
> insert the appropriate town name in the dive site text box. But this does
> not work. A double click is required. In addition, sometimes, more than one
> option has a + button on the right. How is the interface supposed to
> function? See attached image.
Entering a name usually means creating a new dive site. Except, of course,
if you are Linus and want it to do something else because you decided to
download your GPS coordinates first and then you don't want to create a
new location, you want to rename it. And before the conversation descends
into name calling... we ended up with a hard to explain compromise.
Typing in a name and selecting it (with mouse or keyboard - I don't
understand why you need to double click) gets you a new dive site, but
some information of the current dive site are retained - the explanation
in each of the options should be fairly straight forward.
> Thirdly:
> If I add a dive manually, add a dive site, Apply this information, then hit
> the globe button to open the dive site dialogue, there is a text box with
> Dive sites on same coordinates. But this list of dive sites lists just
> about all the dive sites I have dived at. I know that coordinates have not
> been provided yet, and how can Subsurface know which sites are close to
> Durban without knowing Durban's coordinates? My feeling is that this text
> box should be empty until coordinates have been provided.
That match is by name, not by distance. I'm a bit confused what you are
doing, frankly.
/D
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