new file formats for import

Rainer Mohr mail at klemmkeil.de
Fri Mar 8 03:14:20 PST 2013


(Repost, forgot the mailing list)

On 08.03.2013 09:40, Miika Turkia wrote:
>> Dirk Wrote:
>>
>>> I like the idea of pointing people to divelogs.de as a way to convert
>>> files.
>>> Maybe we could come up with an API that would allow even tighter
>>> integration of
>>> Subsurface and divelogs.de? Basically a way to simply synchronize the data
>>> that
>>> is maintained locally and in "the cloud" (i.e., divelogs.de)?
>>> Diveboard.com offers something like that.
>>>
> I think Dirk was hoping for the help in parsing the OceanLog and
> getting back understandable logs. So we would be uploading the MS
> Access DB (or the .txt?) and receiving a nicely parsed DLD back. Or we
> could be uploading some other divelog formats we do not support
> ourselves for parsing.
>
> miika
>
Well, then I completely misunderstood Dirk's Posting above...
Dirk?

Problem is, it's not only the Oceanlog. There are many more formats that 
rely on Access or other proprietary formats (MS SQL compact, a few 
binary ones).
I'd have to write a new script for each one, that generates DLD instead 
of writing to the database, each format needs detailed explanation of 
where to find the files, etc. So pointing the users to divelogs.de, 
letting them upload their files there and then importing everything in 
Subsurface via the API sounds like the way to go for me... Plus, you 
could publish your dives in the cloud (divelogs) via Subsurface if you 
like.

Rainer


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