Some issues with the globe

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Richard DePas <richard.depas at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 09:13 -0700, Richard DePas wrote:
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>> >         The 'zoom out when no dive coordinates' have a very good
>> >         point, will do a patch for that today.
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>> > One thing that would be very helpful is looking at the Location field.
>> > If provided, it could at least give a starting point. This would avoid
>> > having to spin the globe for each dive site.
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>> -ENOPARSE
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>> Can you try again to explain what you mean? Parse the location field and
>> figure out where it is on earth?
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>> My most frequent dive spot is "Yellow House"...
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>> I can see how that would be an issue. I have always used that for the
> nearest city, state - dive site. You are correct, that field can be used
> for almost anything so that will not work to parse for map location.
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> Maybe looking at the previous dive as a starting point since we tend to
> dive general locations time after time. Or maybe add a Dive Site field that
> would be tied with coordinates so a Site could be picked and it would
> automatically fill in coordinates. That would be very helpful for
> shipwrecks as well as repetitive dives on the same sites.
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Richard,

I don't know if you can build subsurf from sources or not, but I just send
two patches that address some of the issues, can you test them please?

Tomaz
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