[PATCH] Show single dives in map.

[Jef Driesen]

On 2013-01-16 17:40, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> It turns out that different divers and different types of dives have
> extremely different characteristics.
>
> Some divers do lots and lots and lots of dives at exactly the same 
> dive
> location. I literally have 50+ dives that are exactly at the same 
> spot -
> it's the training facility I work with that has a house right on Hood
> Canal in Washington State and we always dive right in front of the
> house.
>
> Other divers do mostly boat dives where usually every dive has a
> different GPS coordinate. Funnily enough, I have more than a hundred
> dives of that flavor.
>
> And there are many other options (like the "same site, but not 
> exactly
> the same spot" you mention above).
>
> So far I decided not to try to over engineer things. I put the coarse
> location ("Hoodsport, WA, USA" or "Larnaca, Zyprus") in the trip
> location and the name of the actual site in the dive location. And 
> then
> want to have GPS coordinates attached to the specific dives (where
> useful).

I don't have any GPS info for my dives, but if I did, I think I would 
prefer to have it attached to the dive site, not each dive.

For shore dives, this shouldn't pose any problems, because the entry 
point is quite straightforward. For boat dives it's indeed a bit more 
tricky. However, I assume most boat dives are done at either a reef or a 
wreck, and not just some random place. I agree that the point of entry 
won't always be exactly the same, but do people care about that level of 
precision? For example at a reef, you usually have the name of the reef 
(e.g. Apo Island). The typical entry points also have their own name 
added (e.g. North, East, Rock, etc). While you can start the dive about 
everywhere on the reef, I would log the dive at the nearest "official" 
dive site and not the exact entry point (e.g. GPS position). Also for 
plotting dive sites on a map, I think it's convenient to have just one 
dot per dive site, rater than having one dot per dive squattered around 
at roughly the same area. (If you want an indication of the number of 
dives at a particular site, you can for example scale the dots 
accordingly.)

I wonder if there are any people doing this different, and actually 
prefer the exact GPS location at each dive.

Jef