Shutting down the GPS web service (and removing it from Subsurface apps)

[JB2Cool]

I could be that type of user and i already use a workaround.

I don't use cloud storage but I do use the Subsurface companion app but not
in the way you'd expect. I use the companion app to either take 'one time'
GPS fixes if I have easy access to my phone when we are on site or to log
it automatically if I'm not likely to be able to access my phone but I
don't actually use the webservice to transfer the data. I simply log the
data to the phone and then I screenshot the entry and manually key it into
Subsurface when I'm logging the dive
.
This works for me and has done for the last few years. I can then use this
when I'm 'off the grid' in remote places. It also enables me to use my old
sacrificial (broken) iPhone that I'm not all that bothered about rather
than my newer one that I would care if got wet/lost. I have no SIM card in
the old phone and it still does what I want.

JB

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 at 12:29, Jan Mulder <jlmulder at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 9/8/18 7:31 PM, Miika Turkia wrote:
>
> >
> >> And a thought. The future solution on mobile needs also to work without
> cloud account.
> >
> > it already does. Kind of. Right now you can manage dives and gps on
> single mobile device. (if dc dl is supported in the phone)
> >
>
> Well, some more thinking on this, I think we need to realize that we
> will possibly disappoint 1 type of users. The user that does not use the
> online cloud storage in the new style (without web service) has not way
> any more to transfer GPS data from the mobile device to a desktop
> logbook. I said before "The future solution on mobile needs also to work
> without cloud account", which I now believe is fundamentally impossible.
>
> Thinking more of this ... it is what it is. If a user does not want to
> share the logbook (for whatever reason), the user cannot share a small
> part of the logbook (GPS data) to a different device or desktop
> application as well. Where "share" means, sharing it with the online
> cloud account.
>
> --jan
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