On 2021-09-11 21:34, Robert Helling via subsurface wrote:
Hi,
On 11. Sep 2021, at 18:53, Dirk Hohndel via subsurface
<subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org
<mailto:subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org>> wrote:
Thoughts? Is there anyone here who side-loads their own build? And if
yes, are you using the GPS features?
the GPS feature never worked for me on my iPhone, I have always used
photos to import coordinates (but this is simpler since I hardly ever
dive from a boat).
I actually do a similar trick: take a pic of the equipment while setting
up, that gives a decent GPS coord for the dive spot in the EXIF info,
and as that goes into my gallery for that day... done. But would be good
to be able to see the coords in subsurface, especially as that is what I
have with me when diving. Though, the phone comes along too of course
and in the Photos app it is quite nicely with a map overview.
Thus, maybe an option is that Subsurface extracts the GPS info from a
picture associated to the dive when one sets one? (or at least offers it
when adding the pic and/or 'try extract GPS from pix' as an option)
Maybe we should finally get .kml import to work. Then people who want to
use tracking can have a specialised tracking app deal with these
problems. It think, it’s not only subsurface having these problems: I
use a fitness app on my phone to track my running (supplied by a major
sport shoes manufacturer as I found out). There, tracking works for the
first day but on consecutive days, it never gets any GPS fixes. I have
to manually kill the app, then it works again.
Apple Watch works wonders there, it just works(tm).
For DSLR cams there btw is
https://www.foolography.com/products/unleashed/ (so that you only do
bluetooth and not suck the camera battery empty) which connect to for
instance a Bad Elf:
https://bad-elf.com/pages/be-gps-2300-detail
That Bad Elf you can independently easily put into 'record track' mode,
has amazing fix, and ~48 hour battery or so when doing that; and nicely
exports KML where wanted. Which is also fun to see where the boat
actually took you ;)
Side-note: For emtb bikers, the Bosch Connect App needs to be active to
give the bike a GPS signal from the phone... spotty has been mine
experience, thus logging rides with Apple Watch is easier. Though, one
can easily fetch the KML from the Bosch Connect website.
Greets,
Jeroen
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