transalation - dive site geo lookup

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Oct 5 13:52:09 PDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 07:31:30AM +1100, Rick Walsh wrote:
> On 6 Oct 2015 07:17, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:09:49PM +0200, Krzysztof Arentowicz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Could someone give me an explanation how dive site geo lookup options
> work?
> > >
> > > "Enable geocoding for dive site management"
> > > "Parse site without GPS data"
> > > "Same format for existing dives"
> > >
> > > I have no idea what they do and it makes translating somewhat difficult.
> > > These options are not covered in user's manual.
> >
> > Yes, Willem struggles with the concepts as well.
> >
> > I am actually considering (yes, I know, crazy) to remove these options
> > because they fundamentally seem redundant as they describe a feature that
> > is not yet fully implemented.
> >
> > The first one ("Enable geocoding") should be selfexplanatory... it turns
> > on support for geocoding. But frankly, why do we need this? It no longer
> > happens automatically, the user has to trigger it per dive site. So the
> > preference setting is redundant.
> >
> > And the other two ("Parse site without GPS data" and "Same format for
> > existing dives") both refer to things that we didn't have anyone
> > implementing (I ran out of time and energy).
> >
> > So my suggestion is that I simply comment out that preferences page and we
> > always enable the geocoding option.
> >
> > Comments, thoughts?
> >
> What about geocode format?  I think we need to keep that preference.
> Country/State/Town works well in Australia, but I'm not sure how it would
> work for countries without separate states.

Yes, that one needs to stay. I just want to drop the block above it.

/D


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