Dive site tags [was: IMPORTANT information about current master: dive site management]

Henrik Brautaset Aronsen subsurface at henrik.synth.no
Sat Feb 14 07:51:11 PST 2015


On 14 Feb 2015, at 17:03, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 03:56:40PM +0100, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
>> The only thing I am trying to find a solution for is the long site
>> names, such as  'Sweden / Värmland / Långban'.  It's generated from the
>> country/location/site name taxonomy in MacDive.  So, an idea on how to
>> solve that:  
> 
> I think we have established that I do not want a taxonomy. At all.
> Question: do you use trips? Could the country be kept in the trip?

I'm not asking for taxonomy.  That's why I proposed using tags.  No more, no less :)

> Here's a completely crazy idea... if sites have GPS we can do a reverse
> lookup and figure out the country. And we can even display that (as
> derived information, not something the user enters). And then, if the
> (localized) country string appears in the dive site name, drop that part.
> 
> What do you think?

Not important to me, but it sounds good.

>> How about adding tags to dive sites?  And use that when importing:  add
>> country and location as tags.  So I would end up with 'Långban' as site
>> name, and [Sweden] [Värmland] as tags.  That would be awesome (as
>> someone I know would say ;) ).
> 
> Uhhh, I like that idea. Awesome.
> 
> Let's do that.

Yes!

Cheers,
Henrik


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