[PATCH] Work on a dive localisation tool using GPS coordinates

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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> I completely agree.

The thing is, looking at the osm widget, I personally wouldn't want to
use it even though I *do* have GPS locations for some of my dive. I
think the build problems are a bigger problem than the osm solution is
a solution.

The interface is nasty (hard to zoom in on), the map doesn't have
satellite data afaik, it has absolutely horrible non-wrapping behavior
(guys, it's a *sphere*, not a rectangle).

The osm thing is clearly not meant for dive locations. I'm sure it
works better for other things, but just by happenstance the dives I do
have GPS data for properly in the xml are either in Hawaii or Fiji (I
have a few more with GPS data in the comments, because I didn't bother
editing it into the right place in the XML), and those just happen to
be at the "edges" of the map.

So I think the OSM interface is nasty. We'd be much better off with
something that just opens an external mapping program. Preferably in a
way so that you can select it, and pick google earth or maps or
whataver. Almost anything would be better than that osm widget, I
think. At least google knows that the earth is round, and doesn't have
*edges*, and can show Fiji and Hawaii next to each other.

                           Linus