[PATCH 0/3] added URI support on Windows

[Pierre-Yves]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:38:07AM -0800, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> "Lubomir I. Ivanov" <neolit123 at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> Let me guess... this could then also be used to rather easily implement
> >> the other way of doing GPS location visualization... turning the
> >> Location text into a link to a Google Map...
> >>
> >> Is this something you are working on?
> >>
> >
> > i definitely have something like that in mind...
> > opening a dive info dialog could have a [view map] button that simply
> > opens a browser and shows the dive location on google maps as a maker,
> > that even has text passed from subsurface.
> >
> > having a list of selected dives can have the [view dives on map] action:
> > by doing so, selected dive location can appear as multiple makers.
> >
> > now, to my understanding multiple markers require a little bit of
> > backend, since the default per "URL API" only allows one marker using
> > "q=".
> >
> > so something in these lines has to be done (view source):
> > http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_plotpoints.htm?q=Hello%20world@53,-2&q=My%20Place@53.5,-2.5
> >
> > would it be an option to have a http://subsurface.hohndel.org/map.htm ?
> 
> I'll need to look into the implementation details but am certainly open
> to doing that.
> 
> > also, i'm a bit concerned about URL lengths, so these have to be investigated.
> > if these don't meet our requirements, then perhaps the POST method
> > with some sort of data structure has to be used to a PHP script,
> > instead.
> 
> I'm sure we can setup a little web service that digests POST requests.
> That's actually something that Pierre has already done for the
> webservice that works with the Subsurface companion app for Android so
> my bet is that he could easily adapt that for this purpose...

I am traveling until next week, but I am sure we can do something in the
subsurface-webservice for this (I even wonder if the current wouldn't already
work, I would have to check).

Pierre