Dive site management and taxonomy test

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Jul 9 07:16:38 PDT 2015



> On Jul 9, 2015, at 07:01, Davide DB <dbdavide at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 03:33:02PM +0200, Davide DB wrote:
>>> Taxonomy BUG #1
>>> 
>>> tags are not updated if I change tags format form preferences: the new
>>> format is applied only to dive sites without tags.
>>> If a dive site has already some taxonomy applied this is not updated
>>> via the globe button :)
>> 
>> This confuses me. Maybe I don't quite understand what you are saying.
>> 
>> The current version should store all information that we get from the
>> service. And simply display the ones you pick.
>> 
>> So if you change preferences... that should just update what's shown.
>> This of course only works for those dives for which you have downloaded
>> data. We no longer try to force download it for all dives. So you need to
>> (currently!!! this will of course change) do this dive by dive.
> 
> Sorry, now it works.
> Actually sometimes it need more than five seconds to load tags and
> sometimes tags are not refreshed. I resized my windows and they were
> updated.

So where do you get the delay? When you click on the little globe button? Yes, that's the web service lookup, that can take as moment.
> 
>>> I'm playing with taxonomy and I get really strange results... I know,
>>> it depends on the service we use. I will check there manually.
>> 
>> Can you be more specific? The geonames.org service gave me reasonable
>> values for most places that I picked - but admittedly I only tested a
>> dozen or so of my own dive sites and I never dive in lakes or other inland
>> waters. I did get an "Ocean unknown" on one of my frequent sites and I'm
>> trying to find out how to fix that in the source data (as geonames.org is
>> in theory a service based on user contributed data).
> 
> I registered there and once registered you could able to modify them
> in a google map web app.
> I will try later because I found a lot of errors on my dives here in
> Italy. I suppose this is mainly for lack of user contribution...
> Geonames.org here I came!!!!

Excellent. My question to them that's unanswered is how they identify bodies of water...
User contributions are a great thing because now for other divers the sites where you are fixing the data will be correct.

> Just a question. Do you use GPS data to query locations?
> I'm trying on geonames.org and I'm getting different data with gps and
> location names.

Only with gps data so far

/D


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