[PATCH] Show single dives in map.

Pierre-Yves pingou at pingoured.fr
Wed Jan 16 14:27:59 PST 2013


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:13:55PM +0100, Robert C. Helling wrote:
> 
> On Jan 16, 2013, at 5:40 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > But the real
> > goal for me is to continue to work on integration of the Android
> > Subsurface Companion app (maybe someone will write one for iPhone,
> > too). The idea is simply. At a dive site, you start the app, enter the
> > name of the site and it transfers the GPS location plus name to a
> > webservice (we have a sample service running at api.hohndel.org).
> > Then Subsurface connects to that service and matches the time stamps of
> > those GPS fixes with the time stamps of your dives and adds the GPS
> > location. That last part is still missing...
> 
> strictly speaking, you don't need an app for this, only a web browser: You can determine the GPS coordinates in Javascript. That is not my native language but just as a proof of concept:
> 
> http://euve10195.vserver.de/~robert/location.html

But I wonder how precise this would off-shore.

> Looking at the source you will recognize some of the <form>-code….
> 
> I also like the idea with the pictures. With a dive that still lacks GPS data, we could have a button that opens a file chooser to pick (maybe with preview) an image file to extract coordinates from the EXIF tags.

I also like this idea :)

Pierre


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