Thinking about a dive site "schema"

Henrik Brautaset Aronsen henrik at synth.no
Thu Jan 29 11:58:55 PST 2015


On 29 Jan 2015, at 19:13, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen
> <henrik at synth.no> wrote:
>> 
>>> The first two are mandatory. If you don't have a name and GPS coordinates,
>>> you don't have an entry in this data base.
>> 
>> I disagree to this.  It has happened to me many times that I add a site and some notes and a picture, but I add the GPS coordinates later.
> 
> Quite frankly, I personally *violently* disagree with anything that
> doesn't have GPS location.
> 
> There's a few reasons:
> 
> - if you only have the divesite name, you can damn well just write it
> in the dive notes as the name. It's not a "divesite", it's just a note
> for the dive itself.
> 
> - if you don't have a GPS location, everything else turns into pure
> and utter crap.


Blah blah shit fuck crap, cleanse, repeat.  It works in other dive software.  Quite well, actually.

Henrik


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