Mapping GPS data (was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Save latitude/longitude using integer math)

[Dirk Hohndel]

Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> writes:

> On 12/23/2012 10:58 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> Are you volunteering to implement this? :-)
>
> I don't have coordinates for any of my dive locations, and would
> probably not bother to record and enter them, even if I knew where in
> subsurface this could be done (there doesn't seem to be an entry field
> for this, right?).

That's why we have the Android companion app - it just GIVES you the
coordinates (through a web service).

> But even if I did have those coordinates: IMHO, it would be by far
> good enough if subsurface presented some "map link" button that would
> just pass on an URL to whatever browser the user prefers.
>
> Rendering a map within the subsurface GUI seems a little over the top
> to me.

I don't know - I could argue both side of this one.

> Subsurface already has about three times as many features as I would
> ever have considered necessary for calling it a success ;-)

And we have about a third of the features that I want :-)

But thanks for the praise!

/D