Below is an attempt to simplify and unify the location management UI.
When a dive site name is entered in the Notes Tab, similar dive site names are listed in a drop-down list. If the site has been dived before, one can choose the appropriate existing site. This is also true if a locality has more than one coordinate pair, e.g. if there are more than one site that has been dived using the name "Blue Hole", or "South Pinnacle"
When a new set of coordinates are specified, other dive sites with a similar name are supposed to be shown in a text box labelled "Dive sites on same coordinates". If this list is shown on the basis of similar or identical dive site names, then it duplicates the dropdown list in the Notes Tab and it could be deleted. If it is based on coordinates (as the heading says), then it appears not to be functional yet because, if in the dive site management panel, I enter the identical coordinates of a site I have dived frequently, then no items are shown in the "Dive sites on same coordinates" text box. But this panel can be very valuable, (I suspect as was envisioned when the code was written) if the text box did exactly what the heading says "Dive sites on same coordinates", except that I would like to change the heading to "Dive sites near the coordinates". This would be a material improvement, allowing one to discover several names that have been used for the same or similar coordinates and to check that the coordinates typed into or provided higher up are really the geographic locality one means. Of course the meaning of "near", above is relative to interpretation, but in order to be useful one could use a rule like "within 1 km" or "within a tenth of a geographical degree". The former probably would require quite a bit of calculation while the latter would probably be less computationally intensive.
Kind regards, willem _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
