GPS coordinates and web export

[Miika Turkia]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> Miika,
>
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 05:16:58PM +0200, Miika Turkia wrote:
>> I am testing copy-pasting GPS coordinates from our web interface to
>> dive sites and ran into a problem as these coordinates are not parsed
>> properly. When I grab coordinates from a dive site in Bonaire, that is
>> parsed to be in the middle of Burkina Faso in Africa. Not very nice if
>> we cannot parse our own coordinates. This occurs both with the
>> coordinates directly from our generated web page (cloud) and if
>> opening the google maps link and using the notation there (both these
>> formats: 12° 8' 0.24" , -68° 16' 58.44" and 12.148000,-68.311500).
>
> That's completely puzzling since that's something I tested just a few
> weeks ago. Have you tried to debug this or did your C++ allergy prevent
> you from doing that?

I just tested to enter coordinates "4 4" and that worked, so it seems
that comma in the coordinates causes a fail in the parsing. I haven't
looked into this part of the source yet as I am working on another bug
currently. But I could actually take a look into this one first.

>> It also looks like I am not able to actually save the coordinates from
>> the location management, they are blank when I re-open the location
>> management and my saved XML does not have them on the dive site.
>
> I fixed a bug in that area when I tested the above... maybe I "fixed" it
> instead of fixing it?
>
>> Also the relationship between the dive location on the Notes pane and
>> what is entered when clicking on the location management icon next to it
>> seems quite flimsy or even broken. Adding data to these fields does not
>> seem to reflect the other mode.
>
> Can you explain a bit more what you mean by that?

- Select dive with no location data
- Click on the dive site management icon
- type in location
- apply changes
- the location management "window" is closed and location field on
notes pane remains blank

This seems to be working if I first type in a name on the location
field on notes pane and then go edit the name on location management.

miika