GPS coordinates and web export

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 05:34:49PM +0200, Miika Turkia wrote:
> 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.

I'm debugging this and it is indeed the comma. I believe I have a fix,
testing it right now.

> >> 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.

Ah, never tried it that way - I always give a name first.

Another thing to debug.

I'm thrilled that we are finding all these bugs. Thank you, Miika.

/D